162. Finding Patterns and Switching Lenses featuring Bridgett M. Davis
Bridgett M. Davis joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about the effect of trauma and weathering on Black lives, the unique bond between sisters, showing relationships in action and dialogue, ho...
8 Huhti 202539min
161. Writing to Our Past Self featuring Megan Williams
Megan Williams joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about being a new mother while training at the police academy, looking for validation, resisting the urge to punish ourselves, pushing back ag...
3 Huhti 202534min
160. Falling Outside the Containers of What’s Expected featuring Paul Lisicky
Paul Lisicky joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about how his appreciation for Joni Mitchell and love of her work shaped his life as a musician and a writer, vulnerability and uncertainty on ...
1 Huhti 202538min
159. Dear Writer: Pep Talks & Practical Advice for the Creative Life featuring Maggie Smith
Maggie Smith returns to Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about letting imposter syndrome go, fiercely guarding your interior life, getting back to the core place where creativity thrives, rewritin...
25 Maalis 202528min
158. Writing About a Past Where You Weren’t Present featuring Karen Kirsten
Karen Kirsten joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about the messy complexity of family, asking the right questions, writing about a time in history when you weren’t present in that history, uti...
18 Maalis 202540min
157. The Boundaries and Distance We Need to Tell Certain Stories featuring Paula Delgado-Kling
Paula Delgado-Kling joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about how her research and reporting on child soldiers, drug trafficking, and the revolutionary armed forces of Columbia (FARC) led her t...
13 Maalis 202542min
156. Taking Power Back with the Stories We Are Called to Tell featuring Diane Vonglis Parnell
Diane Vonglis Parnell joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about growing up with 9 siblings on an isolated farm under the tyranny of her abusive father and living in constant fear, homing in on ...
11 Maalis 202541min
155. Grappling with Contradictions and Leaving Readers Room to Decide featuring Martha S. Jones
Martha S. Jones joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about being Black, white, and other in America, the origins of her family in slavery and sexual violence, anti-miscegenation laws, passing, w...
6 Maalis 202539min
