229. Becoming Someone Else featuring Karen Palmer
Karen Palmer joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about changing her identity to escape a dangerous ex-husband, being stalked, the consequences of deciding to disappear, coming to grips with the...
10 Mar 31min
228. Bringing the Reader into Our Discovery Process featuring Dorothy Roberts
Dorothy Roberts joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about her father’s interviews beginning in the 1930s with over 500 back-white couples who crossed the color line in Chicago, moving to memoi...
3 Mar 39min
227. Crafting a Shared Memoir featuring Rebecca N. Thompson, MD
Rebecca N. Thompson, MD joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about life-threatening pregnancy losses and weaving her own story of navigating a challenging path to parenting with the stories of ...
24 Feb 40min
226. Homing in on Why We Need to Tell Our Story featuring Blair Glaser
Blair Glaser joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about her time on a Catskills ashram during her twenties in the 1990s, yearning and the thrilling and perilous idolization of other human beings...
17 Feb 39min
225. Writing Closer to the Bone featuring Bee Wilson
Bee Wilson joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about the evolution of our narratives, how each book teaches you how to write it, approaching memoir from many different angles, how there’s no pr...
10 Feb 41min
224. Writing About Chasing an Unconventional Life and Feeling Haunted featuring Alex Poppe
Alex Poppe joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about working in conflict zones, living abroad and negotiating cultural differences, teaching in northern Iraq, youth and female resilience, pursu...
3 Feb 35min
223. Creating the Life That We Want to Live Inside with Words featuring Louise Southerden
Louise Southerden joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about building a tiny home in Australia by hand during the Covid pandemic, being a travel writer for much of her career, choosing freedom o...
27 Jan 45min
222. Unpacking the Scripts We’ve Been Handed featuring Anna Rollins
Anna Rollins joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about the relationship between evangelical purity culture and diet culture, incorporating research and reporting into personal narrative, the in...
20 Jan 34min
