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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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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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We Survived the Night by Julian Brave NoiseCat
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Julian Brave NoiseCat's debut is an exciting birth of a new talent. What a writer! ...more
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Better Faster Farther by Maggie Mertens
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A wonderful book and a necessary history of women's running and women's athletics. ...more
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Joyride by Susan Orlean
Joyride: A Memoir
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I liked this, and I've been a big fan of Susan's work for years, like many people. She's kind and generous and giving of her time.

I believe this book started more as a craft book, and I think I would have preferred that to a memoir of a career. As a
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