Random Nonfiction Podcasts

Marlon and Jake Read Dead People is a podcast hosted by the Man Booker Prize-winning and internationally bestselling author Marlon James and his editor, Jake Morrissey, Executive Editor at Riverhead Books. In each episode, Marlon and Jake talk about authors—specifically dead authors. Authors they like. Authors they hate. Great books, terrible books, and books they love that you’d never expect them to. As a writer and an editor, Marlon and Jake have read thousands of books between them, and they’re not shy in expressing their opinions about them. Sometimes they’ll agree, sometimes they won’t, but in every episode, they’ll tell you what they think— uncensored and with no holds barred. (That’s why the authors have to be dead.) So, listen along to hear about the spectacularly good, the hilariously bad, and the brutally honest.

Categories: Arts, Society & Culture

Tags: audiobook, author, Authors, Biography, book, book club, book recommendations, Books, classic books, classic literature, ebook, fiction, good reads, librarian, library, Literature, Memoir, Non-fiction, nonfiction, novel, novels, reader, Reading, TBR pile

Everyday Americans tell their own stories in narratives and documentaries produced by award-winners Dan Collison and Elizabeth Meister. As heard on NPR and public radio stations nationwide.

Categories: Society & Culture

Tags: audio, Collison, Dan, documentary, Elizabeth, haul, History, long, Meister, national, nonfiction, npr, oral, productions, public, radio, song, Stories, storytelling, WBEZ

On February 12, 1971, in Durham, North Carolina, a 20 year-old nursing student and her 19 year-old boyfriend left a Valentine’s Dance to park down a secluded lover’s lane. They never returned. Two weeks later, their bodies were found deep within the Carolina pines. They had been strangled, tortured, and murdered. Their murders have never been solved. THE LONG DANCE is the story of the lives touched by the murders of Patricia Mann and Jesse McBane. Produced by crime fiction author Eryk Pruitt, investigative reporter Drew Adamek, and sound engineer Piper Kessler, it uses recorded interviews to tell the tragic tale of North Carolina’s most baffling murder case. The eight-part true crime podcast is perfect for fans of SERIAL and S-TOWN.

Categories: Society & Culture, Technology

Tags: Crime, MYSTERY, nonfiction

Welcome to Love Letters, a podcast that tells true love stories, with a twist.

Categories: Arts, History

Tags: art, History, Literature, nonfiction, Psychology, relationships, romance, selfhelp

We all have our own little obsessions that we hold dear to us. To each one our own, the spectrum our obsessions are incredibly diverse in their field. But it’s almost impossible to explain how or why we drown ourselves in it. Join me as I go off the deep end in investigating the obsessions that continue to allure us, because it’s through our love and our appreciation for the trivial things in life, that we have the most innate voices to be heard and the most compelling stories to tell. This is Nosedive. Free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Categories: Society & Culture

Tags: Arts, nonfiction, Obsessions, Palisades Charter High School, passions, Personal Journals, Stories, UC Santa Cruz

Is there a book living in your head that you have always wanted to put to paper but never started? Or do you have a draft of a never-finished book that you set aside and haven’t picked back up? If you are a business owner, entrepreneur, or speaker burning to tell your story and share your expertise with the world, then this podcast is for you. Writing a book can be a slow, arduous process. It can be a struggle to know where you should even start, to figure out what impact you want to have on your readers and what your ultimate purpose is in writing this book. It can be hard to overcome imposter syndrome and recognize that you are an expert in your field and that readers deserve to learn from you. Getting your book out there and having your voice heard can have a positive impact not only on your business but also on your life. In this show, you’ll hear inspiring interviews with published authors who are striving to make a difference in the world. You’ll learn how they overcame self-doubt and roadblocks to speak their truth… and how their book opened the doors to a wider audience, making a bigger impact than they ever thought was possible. The world deserves to hear your story – and you deserve the chance to tell it.

Categories: Arts, Society & Culture

Tags: aspiringauthors, author, Authors, book, Books, business, invisiblestories, lgbtq, Memoirs, nonfiction, publisher, publishing, Stories, Writer, writers, writetobeseen, writing, writingabook

As we all stay home to stay safe together, what we’re missing most is connecting with other people out in the world. And for Colman Domingo (Fear the Walking Dead, Zola, Candyman) that primarily means… brunch. Each week, he’ll send a couple of friends all the mixings for a cocktail of choice, have them make something delicious and invite them to brunch, and he’s inviting you too. Here on the podcast for Bottomless Brunch, you’ll hear the uncut conversations that didn’t make it into the show.

Categories: Arts, Society & Culture, TV & Film

Tags: alcohol, amc, Bottomless Brunch at Colman's, Brunch, cocktails, Colman Domingo, conversation, craft cocktail recipes, nonfiction, talk show, the walking dead

Have you considered becoming a published Christian author? Publishing is the best way to build authority and become the “go-to” expert in your field. It’s also one of the fastest ways to get clients and grow ministries consistently. In this podcast, Tamara “Coach Tam” Jackson will bring you behind-the-scenes insights and interviews with mission-driven entrepreneurs and ministry leaders that have published books to increase their exposure, impact, and income. You’ll learn about how these authors came up with their book concept and expanded their following through podcasting and speaking engagements – without resorting to fake, salesy, sleazy, or manipulative tactics. We’ll also explore the trials and tribulations that they had to overcome along the way. Each episode will leave you empowered, equipped, and excited to publish your book, build your tribe, and make your mark for Christ. Get ready because we’re going deep on publishing secrets!

Categories: Business, Education, Religion & Spirituality

Tags: amazon, author, bestselling author, book, book deal, book editing, Book Marketing, Book Promotion, book publisher, christian books, christian podcast, christian podcaster, ingram spark, marketing, marketing advice, nonfiction, publishing, publishing advice, self help, Self Publishing, self publishing school, Traditional Publishing, Write a Book, writing, writing advice

THIS BOOK IS MOST LIKELY NOT FOR YOU!

– It will NOT guTHIS BOOK IS MOST LIKELY NOT FOR YOU! It will NOT guarantee success – Life holds no promises! It will NOT guarantee happiness – Ignorance is bliss! There is a secret. It is not the one you have seen so well advertised in the media. It has little to do with positive thinking and really getting in touch with your true purpose in life. Those people you read about in People magazine and see on television know it. Those people who enjoy the lives we would love to have – will never reveal this basic truth. It would be like a magician giving away their secret, and secret it is – the real secret! You won’t read or hear about this one… when you find out what it is, you will know why! Life is too often a sucker’s game. Those who play by the rules, believe in fair play, and believe that what goes around comes around in life, are very often the greatest losers in life. In every one of life’s arenas there is a “Hidden Game.” While the rank and file are all busy with trying to win the brass ring, there is a small group of insiders, the “Players,” who are coolly, cynically, pulling the strings. These “Players” take the lion’s share of life’s rewards – the beautiful homes, the cars, the svelte spouses – leaving the rest of humanity to fight over the crumbs they leave behind. Imagine, what it would be like to be able to recognize this pattern – know how it works, and predict what will happen next? It would be like having a crystal ball – always one step ahead of the game, knowing what is going to happen next! You will have the confidence which comes from knowing that life is a Game – and you have THE EDGE!arantee success – Life holds no promises!
– It will NOT guarantee happiness – Ignorance is bliss!
There is a secret. It is not the one you have seen so well advertised in the media. It has little to do with positive thinking and really getting in touch with your true purpose in life. Those people you read about in People magazine and see on television know it. Those people who enjoy the lives we would love to have – will never reveal this basic truth. It would be like a magician giving away their secret, and secret it is – the real secret! You won’t read or hear about this one… when you find out what it is, you will know why! Life is too often a sucker’s game. Those who play by the rules, believe in fair play, and believe that what goes around comes around in life, are very often the greatest losers in life. In every one of life’s arenas there is a “Hidden Game.” While the rank and file are all busy with trying to win the brass ring, there is a small group of insiders, the “Players,” who are coolly, cynically, pulling the strings. These “Players” take the lion’s share of life’s rewards – the beautiful homes, the cars, the svelte spouses – leaving the rest of humanity to fight over the crumbs they leave behind. Imagine, what it would be like to be able to recognize this pattern – know how it works, and predict what will happen next? It would be like having a crystal ball – always one step ahead of the game, knowing what is going to happen next! You will have the confidence which comes from knowing that life is a Game – and you have THE EDGE!

Categories: Health & Fitness

Tags: hardy, john, lifestyle, Manipulation, narcissism, nonfiction, Philosophy, Psychology, selfhelp, view, world

Page is a storytelling podcast designed to connect listeners to new and unique voices in the fiction world. Each month, Page takes original short fiction from emerging authors and produces it as audio dramas, complete with narration, voice acting, music, and sound effects. Enjoy author interviews, discussions, and publishing advice each month as well.

Categories: Arts

Tags: audiobook, Audiodrama, author, fantasy, fiction, interview, narrative, nonfiction, play, publishing, shortstory, story, storytelling, theater, writing

Join brothers Brandon and Nevin Werner on their crazy trip through time as they dive into some of the weirdest, funniest, and most unbelievable stories in history. Human history has too many stories to fit into just the Laughing Historically video show. Each podcast episode, Brandon and Nevin bring you two topics that they think need to be discussed right way. Looking for our video show? Check out new episodes at: youtube.com/laughinghistorically.

Categories: Comedy, Society & Culture

Tags: Brandon, brothers, Channel, Comedy, educational, facts, Funny, Hardcore, historically, History, howstuffworks, Laughing, learning, nevin, nonfiction, supernatural, trivia, true, werner, youtube

This Rebel Love began with one wild question: what if we threw out everything we knew about relationships and risked it all for more love? Each week, we tell the true story of opening up our 17-year monogamous relationship. It’s unscripted and uncensored, so we have no idea what’s going to happen week by week. We question everything we thought we knew about marriage, parenting, dating – and sex! – and we ask ourselves: just how much love are we capable of? Join us – and become a rebel! – on This Rebel Love.

Categories: Health & Fitness, Society & Culture

Tags: alternative, Comedy, counseling, couple, couples, Culture, dating, Diary, Education, ethical, gender, glbt, health, lgbt, lgbtqiap, lifestyle, love, marriage, monogamous, monogamy, nonfiction, nonmonagamy, parenting, Poly, polyamorous, polyamory, Psychology, queer, relationships, selfhelp, selfimprovement, sex, sexuality, Society, therapy, true, uncensored, unschooling, unscripted

Olivia Fierro, full-time local news anchor at 3TV, part-time book collector and book club host, interviews authors and other literary types for a lively podcast. Join us for conversations and recommendations that are sure to make your TBR stack grow.

Categories: Arts

Tags: bookclub, Books, fiction, literacy, Literature, nonfiction, novels, readingauthors

AAWW Radio is the podcast of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, an NYC literary arts space at the intersection of migration, race, and social justice. Listen to AAWW Radio and you’ll hear selected audio from our current and past events, as well as occasional original episodes. We’ve hosted established writers like Claudia Rankine, Maxine Hong Kingston, Roxane Gay, Amitav Ghosh, Ocean Vuong, Solmaz Sharif, and Jenny Zhang. Our events are intimate and intellectual, quirky yet curated, and dedicated to social justice. We curate our events to juxtapose novelists and activists, poets and intellectuals, and bring together people who usually wouldn’t be in the same room. We’ve got it all: from avant-garde poetry to post-colonial politics, feminist comics to lyric verse, literary fiction to dispatches from the left. A sanctuary for the immigrant imagination, we believe Asian American stories deserve to be told. Learn more by visiting aaww.org Produced by the Asian American Writers’ Workshop.

Categories: Arts, Society & Culture

Tags: aaww, APA, arab, arabamerican, art, Asian, asianamerican, asianamericanwritersworkshop, author, Bangladesh, book, Chinese, conversation, creativewriting, Culture, Desi, diaspora, experimentalpoetry, feminism, feminist, fiction, filipino, filipinx, Identity, indian, interview, islamophobia, Korean, lgbtq, Literature, margins, maxinehongkingston, muslim, newyork, nonfiction, novel, opencity, pacificislander, poetry, postcolonial, prose, queer, race, racialjustice, radical, radio, socialjustice, southasian, syrian, Vietnamese, Writer

Steve and Becky Lyles read stories, poems and quotes to inspire and enliven your day. Becky writes fiction under the name Rebecca Carey Lyles and nonfiction under Becky Lyles, and Steve composes poems and vignettes of daily life. Becky’s books include Winds of Wyoming, Winds of Freedom, It’s a God Thing, On a Wing and a Prayer and Passageways, A Short Story Collection. But they don’t just read their own work. Each podcast includes the stories and thoughts of other creative authors guaranteed to entertain.

Categories: Arts

Tags: Authors, beckylyles, essays, fiction, interviews, itsagodthing, jokes, listeners, nonfiction, onawingandaprayer, passageways, poems, Quotes, readers, readings, rebeccacareylyles, steveandbeckylyles, stevelyles, Stories, vignettes, windsoffreedom, windsofhope, windsofwyoming, writers, writings

A podcast by Rise Collaborative. Through short profiles of different people and their stories, LIFTED aims to capture the various perspectives of a community in modern America.

Categories: Society & Culture

Tags: buffalo, buffaloNY, nonfiction, profiles, reallife, reallifestories, storytelling, westernnewyork

Book reviews from science fiction to horror to nonfiction, all with a modern pop-culture asthetic other book reviewers lack.

Snake Plissken is back, but which Snake Plissken is the real Snake Plissken? After reviewing four BOOM! Studios Escape from New York graphic novels, Jakob and Jason shake the pillars of heaven to see John Carpenter’s antihero go head-to-head with an alter ego from Little China. That’s right, Jack Burton is back, and he’s teaming with Snake to take on villains of the past, and present. Join us once more for the final episode in our Books & Nachos Escape from New York series.

Categories: Arts

Tags: Books, fiction, horror, Joe Schreiber, nonfiction, Sci-Fi, Star Wars, Stephen King

Along with having over 60,000 audiobooks to choose from at Audiobooks.com, we now bring you a weekly show to give you the stories behind the books. Your hosts, The Real Brian and Addy, interview your favorite authors, narrators, audiobook lovers and keep you in the loop of what’s hot. Never miss an episode by subscribing to the show and download the free app at www.audiobooks.com/podcast today!

Categories: Arts, History

Tags: audiobooks, Authors, Biographies, Books, Comedy, drama, fiction, History, horror, Literature, MYSTERY, Narrator, narrators, nonfiction, novels, Politics, romance, science, scifi, SPorts, Technology, thriller, travel, YoungAdult