Let’s Talk Memoir

Let’s Talk Memoir

Let’s Talk Memoir is a podcast for memoir lovers, readers, and writers, featuring interviews with memoirists about their writing process, their challenges, and what they’ve learned about sharing the most personal of narratives. Hosted by writer, editor, and teacher Ronit Plank, each episode highlights different aspects of the memoir-writing experience, and offers writing tips and inspiration. Ronit is the author of the award-winning story collection Home is a Made-Up Place and the memoir When She Comes Back about the loss of her mother to the guru at the center of Netflix’s docuseries Wild Wild Country and their eventual reconciliation. For more memoir advice, workshops, and encouragement find Let’s Talk Memoir and Ronit on Substack, Instagram, and at ronitplank.com

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214. Dismantling Tropes and the Feeling of Being Other featuring Kaila Yu

214. Dismantling Tropes and the Feeling of Being Other featuring Kaila Yu

Kaila Yu joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about how she hated writing at first and has had an accidental career in it, how she had no intention of writing a memoir, selling a book on proposa...

2 Joulu 202526min

213. Who We Are After Mother Loss featuring Tamara Jong

213. Who We Are After Mother Loss featuring Tamara Jong

Tamara Jong joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about growing up Jehovah’s Witness, her mother's untimely passing, losing faith, disguising who we are, trying multiple approaches to a writing p...

25 Marras 202534min

212. Setting Your Writing Apart: A Conversation with Four Editors - Diane Gottlieb, Jennifer Fliss, Nina B. Lichtenstein, and Ronit Plank on Manna Songs: Stories of Jewish Culture and Heritage

212. Setting Your Writing Apart: A Conversation with Four Editors - Diane Gottlieb, Jennifer Fliss, Nina B. Lichtenstein, and Ronit Plank on Manna Songs: Stories of Jewish Culture and Heritage

Diane Gottlieb, Jennifer Fliss, and Nina B. Lichtenstein join Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about their work as editors and what they look for in submissions, setting your writing apart, knowin...

20 Marras 202559min

211. Writing About Ourselves and Others with Nuance and Complexity featuring Edgar Gomez

211. Writing About Ourselves and Others with Nuance and Complexity featuring Edgar Gomez

Edgar Gomez joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about growing up poor in Florida, wanting to believe in the American dream and realizing it’s not accessible, surviving a precarious childhood, r...

18 Marras 202546min

210. Why It’s Never Too Late to Move Forward featuring Anne Abel

210. Why It’s Never Too Late to Move Forward featuring Anne Abel

Anne Abel joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about her experiences winning the Moth StorySLAM, what she learned from the storytelling community, the lifelong toll of her parents’ abuse and her...

11 Marras 202534min

209. Reclaiming Identity and Trusting Our Own Process featuring Heather Sweeney

209. Reclaiming Identity and Trusting Our Own Process featuring Heather Sweeney

Heather Sweeney joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about her quest to find out who she was apart from her life as a military wife, mining 20 years worth of journals, uncovering internal dynami...

4 Marras 202542min

208. Leaning into and Trusting the Particularity of Our Story featuring Kelly Foster Lundquist

208. Leaning into and Trusting the Particularity of Our Story featuring Kelly Foster Lundquist

Kelly Foster Lundquist joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about falling in love with creative nonfiction, believing our story is worth sharing, contemplating how to tell it without hurting som...

28 Loka 202539min

207. Growing as a Person and as a Writer featuring Shigeko Ito

207. Growing as a Person and as a Writer featuring Shigeko Ito

Shigeko Ito joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about the lasting impact of childhood emotional neglect, how invisible trauma can manifest in adult life, fragmented memories, facing a fierce in...

21 Loka 202530min

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