False Stories

Wayne Jones

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

Episodes

  1. 4d ago

    Two Truths, a Lie, and a Small Fries

    Of monkeys, millionaires, and lattes

  2. Sep 10

    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, Candida Rifkind, and Laurie McNeill of The Routledge Introduction to Auto/biography in Canada (2022).  |SELECTED WORKS|  Sonja Boon, Laurie McNeill, Julie Rak, and Candida Rifkind, The Routledge Introduction to Auto/biography in Canada (Routledge, 2023)Boom! Manufacturing Memoir for the Popular Market (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2013)“Teaching Secrets: Reading Alice Munro for Information," The Typescript, July 26, 2024, https://sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/julie-rak/public-work —

  3. Sep 3

    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) —

  4. Aug 27

    You Can’t See Everything

    Sometimes it's loud and sometimes it's still

  5. Aug 20

    Fields

    Naked in a field, secluded for a while in another one

  6. Aug 13

    A One Aitch P

    Brown sauces in history: two narratives.

  7. Aug 6

    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?

  8. Jul 30

    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

  9. Jul 23

    There’s No Need to Shout

    I find out from the audiologist that I need hearing aids

  10. Jul 16

    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

  11. Jul 9

    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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About

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

Information

  • Creator
    Wayne Jones
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    11
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Wayne Jones
  • Show Website
    False Stories