171. When Writing Constraints Liberate Our Work featuring Tom McAllister
Tom McAllister joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about finding the right container for our work trusting our writing to speak for itself, giving ourselves homework, writing constraints as gui...
22 Touko 202535min
170. Reverse Outlining for Emotional Resonance and Hammering Out a Narrative Arc featuring Bonny Reichert
Bonny Reichert joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about not knowing if she’d find a way to tell the story that weighed on her, growing up in the shadow of traumatic family history, selling on ...
20 Touko 202546min
169. Boat Baby featuring Vicky Nguyen
Vicky Nguyen joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about growing up Vietnamese in America and what this country has meant for someone like her, writing memoir as a public figure, pivoting as a wr...
15 Touko 202541min
168. Resisting Erasure and Crystallizing Our Lived Experience Through Memoir featuring KB Brookins
KB Brookins joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about transness, masculinity, and race, how how being a writer has crystalized their experience and made it legible to an audience and to themsel...
13 Touko 202541min
167. Keeping the Reader in Mind and Protecting Ourselves When Writing About Pain featuring Michelle Yang
Michelle Yang joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about her bipolar diagnosis and becoming a mental health advocate, immigrating to the U.S. as a young child, writing at the intersection of bod...
6 Touko 202552min
166. What’s Ours to Tell featuring Julie Brill
Julie Brill joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about growing up the daughter of a Holocaust survivor and her journey to understand the unexamined childhood stories she grew up with, being a re...
29 Huhti 202533min
165. Writing About Disability on a Granular Level featuring Margaret Anne Mary Moore
Margaret Anne Mary Moore joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about her realization at an early age that she wanted to be a nonfiction writer and memoirist, facing severe discrimination as a chi...
22 Huhti 202531min
164. A Memoir with Reflection and Prompts featuring Diana Raab
Diana Raab joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about connecting with ancestors and tuning into their guidance, books that need to be written, when publisher requests don’t resonate with us, add...
17 Huhti 202525min
