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Brendan O'Meara

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Brendan O'Meara is the host of The Creative Nonfiction Podcast and author of Six Weeks in Saratoga. Due out for 2025, The The Front Runner: Steve Prefontaine and the Dawn of the Modern Athlete (Mariner Books). ...more

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Episode 522: Anthony DePalma Won’t Wear Headphones on a Walk

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On This Ground by Anthony DePalma
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On This Ground is an “Among Schoolchildren” for the current day. It’s a lean, propulsive book about the toughest prep school in America, a toughness of many interpretations.
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Heartland by Keith O'Brien
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What I love most about Heartland is the framing: It’s deeply reported origin story that sketches out the conditions that allowed for Larry Bird to later become one of the greatest basketball players of all-time. Lean and propulsive, it lays out how 1 ...more
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In the Days of My Youth I Was Told What It Means to Be a Man by Tom Junod
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Tom Junod's memoir is ostensibly about his father and influence the older Junod had on the younger, but it becomes so much more: a family history and something of a genealogical thriller come the end. A book of reckoning and combining love and truth ...more
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Like a Wave We Break by Jane Chen
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Jane takes the reader on a journey. Maybe you don't have the access she had, but her story might catalyze readers who need to pursue their own healing in a non-prescriptive way. ...more
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Lin-Manuel Miranda by Daniel Pollack-Pelzner
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A masterful biography of someone who changed how we think about musicals, how we make musicals. How did he forge that voice? It didn't come overnight. At every turn, Daniel Pollack-Pelzner shows us through brilliant research and writing that Lin-Manu ...more
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Range of Motion by Brian Trapp
Range of Motion: A Novel
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A brotherly tale told with heart and humor. Highly recommend.
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Changeover by Giri Nathan
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If David Foster Wallace and John McPhee collabed on a book, it might look like Nathan's "Changeover." Voicey and deeply analytical.

Pair this with "Levels of the Game" and "String Theory."
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Kings and Pawns by Howard Bryant
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A necessary history that ties together two kings of their time and deftly illustrates the ways in which the mighty get turned into pawns by the powerful.
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Rough House by Alison Lyn Miller
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Alison Miller's "Rough House" belongs on the shelf of the great journalism immersing in oddball subcultures where the author treats them with the respect they deserve. ...more
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25x33 Q&A with Brendan O'meara — 5 members — last activity Jul 23, 2012 12:09PM
Join author Brendan O'Meara from August 1, 2012 to September 1, 2012 to celebrate the 144th Saratoga race meeting and discuss his book "Six Weeks in S ...more
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