27. Protecting What We Create From Our Own Judgment featuring Buick Audra

27. Protecting What We Create From Our Own Judgment featuring Buick Audra

Buick Audra joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about her new album and companion memoir in essays Conversations with My Other Voice, the importance of protecting our work from judgment, being an abuse survivor, how she views regret, and the tool she used when deciding which details to share about others and which to leave out.

Also in this episode:

-why writing about the abuse she suffered does not retraumatize her

-how misogyny has impacted her art and career

-a closer look at why sharing our voice matters

Books mentioned in this episode:

To Throw Away Unopened by Viv Albertine

The Part That Burns by Jeannine Ouellette

What Do We Need Men For by E. Jean Carroll

I Remember Nothing by Nora Ephron

I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron

Buick Audra is a Grammy-award-winning musician and writer living in Nashville, TN. She is the guitarist and primary songwriter and vocalist in the melodic heavy duo, Friendship Commanders. Her new album, Conversations with My Other Voice, was released on September 23rd, 2022. The album is accompanied by a memoir in essays by the same name.

Connect with Buick:

Website: https://www.buickaudra.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/buickaudra/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/buickaudramusic

Twitter: https://twitter.com/buickaudra

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs25KbPeA2MD8z3sTUTCMRw

Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@buickaudra

Listen to Buick:

https://buickaudra.bandcamp.com

https://open.spotify.com/artist/349pAReW5Ad2bzV5nnGxjO?si=Cl-UJarYRV2lR-2F7AgbAQ

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62698973-conversations-with-my-other-voice

Buy the album & book together:

https://buickaudra.bandcamp.com/album/conversations-with-my-other-voice

Buy the book:

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/conversations-with-my-other-voice-buick-audra/1142389645?ean=9798218066574

https://www.booksamillion.com/p/Conversations-My-Other-Voice/Buick-Audra/9798218066574?id=8650666689319

https://www.amazon.com/Conversations-My-Other-Voice-Essays/dp/B0BGSNTQTB/ref=sr_1_23

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Ronit Plank is a writer, teacher, and editor whose work has been featured in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Writer’s Digest, The Rumpus, American Literary Review, Hippocampus, The Iowa Review, and elsewhere. Her memoir WHEN SHE COMES BACK about the loss of her mother to the guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and their eventual reconciliation was named a 2021 Best True Crime Book by Book Riot and was a Finalist in the National Indie Excellence Awards, the Housatonic Book Awards, and the Book of the Year Awards. Her fiction and creative nonfiction have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes, the Best of the Net, and the Best Microfiction Anthology, and her short story collection HOME IS A MADE-UP PLACE won Hidden River Arts’ Eludia Award. She is creative nonfiction editor at The Citron Review and lives in Seattle with her family where she is working on her next book.

More about Ronit: https://ronitplank.com

More about WHEN SHE COMES BACK: https://ronitplank.com/when-she-comes-back/

More about HOME IS A MADE-UP PLACE: https://ronitplank.com/home-is-a-made-up-place/

Connect with Ronit:

https://www.instagram.com/ronitplank/

https://twitter.com/RonitPlank

https://www.facebook.com/RonitPlank

Background photo: Canva

Headshot photo credit: Sarah Anne Photography

Theme music: Isaac Joel, Dead Moll’s Fingers

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