173. Paying Attention to Our Deepest Desires and Illuminating What We Need to featuring Ruthie Ackerman
Ruthie Ackerman joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about maternal ambivalence and coming from a long line of women who abandoned their children, taking motherhood on from different angles, fee...
29 Mai 202538min
172. Doing the Unfinished Business of Raising Ourselves featuring Daria Burke
Daria Burke joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about sharing her journey out of Detroit where she was raised in poverty and the question that inspired her memoir, writing well and being well w...
27 Mai 202537min
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 Mai 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 Mai 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 Mai 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 Mai 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 Mai 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 Apr 202533min
