CREATIVE NONFICTION : PodLit

Creative Nonfiction

What is a podcast? \| How do I listen? \| Podcast programs PodLit The Podcast of Creative Nonfiction Welcome to PodLit, a program for writers, readers, teachers, students and anyone else interested in contemporary literature. PodLit is a series of audio programs devoted to news, interviews and commentary about literary activities, literary life and writers and editors. We appreciate your patience as we take on this new technological endeavor. Enjoy listening to PodLit! Click here to go to Creative Nonfiction's Podcast Page

WHAT IS A PODCAST? A podcast is similar to a radio show, only listeners can play programs when they want, where they want and how they want. There's no need to "tune in" at a certain time: Once a podcast is available, listeners can experience the complete audio file at their leisure on their computer, MP3 player or web browser. Unique to podcasts is the listener's ability to hear episodes one at a time, or "subscribe" to a podcast. Subscribing to a podcast is like subscribing to a magazine: The magazine arrives every time a new one is printed, and you don't have to go out and buy a copy. When you subscribe to a podcast, all new shows will be automatically downloaded to your computer as they are published. They'll appear in the media player you use, such as iTunes.

HOW DO I LISTEN? Cick here and you'll find youself on our podcasting page. You can listen to a PodLit episode by clicking the podcast icon next to the program description. We plan on adding new PodLit programs bi-weekly, and if you subscribe--which is free and easy--the new PodLit programs will automatically show up in your media player. To subscribe, click here. On the right side of the page under Actions, there is a Subscribe in iTunes option. Click there and PodLit will be added to the podcast category in your iTunes library. (Currently, this only works using Safari. If you use a different web browser and want to subscribe, read on for alternative instructions.) To go directly to our iTunes page, click below. We recommend using the web browsers Safari and Mozilla Firefox. Internet Explorer does not always work for this link. PodLit iTunes Page Need iTunes? Download it for free from the following link: iTunes (PC and Mac compatible)

PODCAST PROGRAMS PodLit #7 - 06/08/2006 Speaker: Helena Ruoti reads Ruthann Robson's "Notes from a Difficult Case" Topic: Essay from Rage & Reconciliation: Inspiring a Health Care Revolution Time: 18 min Size: 12 MB PodLit #6 - 05/10/2006 Speaker: Mary Gannon Topic: Poets & Writers Literary Service and Magazine Time: 22 min Size: 15 MB PodLit #5 - 04/18/2006 Speaker: Dinty W. Moore Topic: Writing it Short : A Guide to Brevity Time: 25 min Size: 17 MB Link to the online journal Brevity Click here for our Best of Brevity issue PodLit #4 - 04/04/2006 Speaker: Rebecca Miller Topic: Breaking in with Book Reviewing Time: 28 min Size: 19 MB PodLit #3 - 03/21/2006 Speaker: C. Michael Curtis Topic: Submission Cover Letters: What Not To Say Time: 20 min Size: 14 MB PodLit #2 - 03/07/2006 Speakers: Natalie Goldberg and Lee Gutkind Topic: Interview and Reading with Natalie Goldberg Time: 36 min Size: 25 MB PodLit #1 - 02/15/2006 Speaker: Lee Gutkind Topic: Creative Nonfiction: A Movement, Not a Moment Time: 1hr Size: 45.5 MB Media Mentioned in Podcast: Books Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt Patrimony - Philip Roth This Boy's Life - Tobias Wolff Dutch - Edmund Morris House - Tracy Kidder Death in the Afternoon, Green Hills of Africa - Ernest Hemingway The New Journalism, Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby -Tom Wolfe Assorted Prose of Updike - John Updike Welcome to My Country - Lauren Slater Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil - John Berendt Fame and Obscurity - Gay Talese Essays "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold" - Gay Talese "Three Spheres" - Lauren Slater "Truth is Stronger than Fiction" - Rachel Donadio "The Last American Hero" - Tom Wolfe Movies Murderball Apollo 13 Angela's Ashes March of the Penguins Shortcut to Nirvana Fahrenheit 9/11 Writers Rachel Donadio Annie Dillard Diane Ackerman James Baldwin John McPhee Terry Tempest Williams Barry Lopez W.S. Merwin
THANKS TO THE SPROUT FUND PodLit is generously supported in part by a Seed Award from the Sprout Fund, a nonprofit organization supporting innovative ideas and grassroots community projects in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
CONTACT US: Creative Nonfiction Foundation 5501 Walnut Street, Suite 202 Pittsburgh, PA 15232 email: information[at]creativenonfiction.org tele: 412.688.0304 --fax: 412.688.0262

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