This podcast is about life-writing and fiction, about telling the truth and mixing it with imagined stories. Some or all of some of these stories may or may not be completely true or untrue. — Music: "Le noir et la rage," DIY-Note, Free Music Archive, CC BY-NC — Logo: Canva, Google Gemini
— I read some excerpts from my memoir about minimalism — Less and Less: Personal Minimalism (Ottawa: William & Park, 2023) — wayne@waynejones.ca —
24 Sept 2026
Croissants, Bad Coffee, and Cat Food
Gastronomic highs and lows
17 Sept 2026
Two Truths, a Lie, and a Small Fries
Of monkeys, millionaires, and lattes
10 Sept 2026
Interview with Julie Rak: Personal Nonfiction, Memoir, Biography, and Life Writing
|INTERVIEW GUEST| Julie Rak (FRSC) holds the Henry Marshall Tory Chair in the Department of English and Film Studies and is a Strategic Research Chair in Arts at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. Her research focus is nonfiction, including books such as False Summit: Gender in Mountaineering Nonfiction (2021), Boom! Manufacturing Memoir for the Popular Market (2013), and Negotiated Memory: Doukhobor Autobiographical Discourse (2004). She is the co-author with Sonia Boon, Ca...
3 Sept 2026
Fiction Is Not True, Truth Is Hard—and with an Addendum of My Confessions About Crimes I Have Committed
It's hard enough to know what's true in real life, and even harder in fiction — The biography mentioned in the episode: Wayne Jones, My Sam Johnson: A Biography for General Readers (Ottawa: William & Park, 2023) —
27 Aug 2026
You Can’t See Everything
Sometimes it's loud and sometimes it's still
20 Aug 2026
Fields
Naked in a field, secluded for a while in another one
13 Aug 2026
A One Aitch P
Brown sauces in history: two narratives.
6 Aug 2026
Swipe Right or Keep Scrolling or Do Something Before We Ask You for More Money
My friend Larry has horror stories about dating apps, but is there a happy ending?
30 Jul 2026
Just a Story
Wayne discusses truth and falsehood in stories, and demonstrates his points about nuance and explicitness with examples from two very different songs
23 Jul 2026
There’s No Need to Shout
I find out from the audiologist that I need hearing aids
16 Jul 2026
I Hesitantly Buy a Yacht Mop
I replace my pancake mop with a yacht mop, and a few surprising things happen | Female voice generated from ttsMP3.com
9 Jul 2026
This Car Isn’t Working Properly, Sir
I become obsessed with a detail of my new car, but when I arrive at the coffee shop something really deserving attention occurs.
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