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 Mar 202539min
154. Mothers and Other Fictional Characters: a Memoir in Essays featuring Nicole Graev Lipson
Nicole Graev Lipson joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about our culture’s fascination with reducing women to readymade templates and archetypes, performing fictional versions of ourselves, fi...
4 Mar 202541min
153. How We Are Haunted featuring Sarah Jaffe
Sarah Jaffe joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about allowing ourselves to be known on the page, learning how to pivot from journalism to the very personal, processing experiences through writ...
27 Feb 202540min
152. Grief Journeys and Storytelling as Closure featuring Susan Lieu
Susan Lieu joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about realizing you’re an artist later in life, becoming a multi-hyphinate storyteller, being a mother when you never knew your own, piecing toget...
25 Feb 202552min
151. Putting the Less Than Heroic Parts of Ourselves on the Page featuring Casey Mulligan Walsh
Casey Mulligan Walsh joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about the search for belonging in the wake of repeated loss, learning to live with grief alongside joy, finding a purpose for our story,...
18 Feb 202550min
150. Writing a Memoir in Three Months featuring Barrie Miskin
Barrie Miskin joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about the rare dissociative disorder she experienced while pregnant and her experience navigating the maternal and mental health care system, t...
13 Feb 202532min
149. Writing Someone Else’s Story featuring Kanya D’Almeida
Kanya D’Almeida joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about how her life changed when a manuscript by Russell "Maroon" Shoatz, a former member of the Black Panther Party and soldier in the Black ...
11 Feb 202538min
148. Shedding False Identities and Being Our Own Best Champion featuring Sari Botton
Sari Botton joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about editing the magazines Adventures in Journalism, Memoir Land, and Oldster, her experience publishing on Substack, editing vs. generating mat...
6 Feb 202536min
