206. Changing the Culture of Abuse and Family Dysfunction Through Memoir featuring Leslie Johansen Nack
Leslie Johansen Nack joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about growing up with parents who struggled with mental illness and substance abuse, surviving an inappropriate and domineering father, ...
14 Okt 202533min
205. Pushing Boundaries and Experimenting with the Flash Form featuring Sue William Silverman
Sue William Silverman joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about evolving as a writer and bringing freshness to the same subject, experimenting with truncated and fractured forms, making a colle...
9 Okt 202544min
204. Trusting the Right Structure Will Snap Into Place featuring Ren Cedar Fuller
Ren Cedar Fuller joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about how when we love people we want their world to be bigger, raising a transgender child, having a disability, writing a lot of drafts fo...
7 Okt 202534min
203. Confronting the Dark and Embarrassing and Giving Ourselves Grace featuring Gina Tron
Gina Tron joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about coming of age in the aftermath of the Columbine massacre, the myth of the bullied school shooter, revenge fantasies, her advocacy work, captu...
30 Sep 202539min
202. Mining Metaphor and Exploring Divisions within Ourselves featuring Jocelyn Jane Cox
Jocelyn Jane Cox joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about the challenges and guilt around caretaking, her childhood experience as a competitive figure skater, telling a story in the structure ...
23 Sep 202538min
201. Cultivating Interiority and Combating Self-Censorship featuring Gaar Adams
Gaar Adams joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about living amongst and depicting queer and migrant communities in the Gulf states, falling in love with Arabic literature and translation, the u...
16 Sep 202537min
200. Resurrecting the Child You Once Were and the Mother You Had to Let Go featuring Bridey Thelen-Heidel
Bridey Thelen-Heidel joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about growing up with a mom who was addicted to everything including dangerous men, revisiting and writing about a traumatic childhood f...
9 Sep 202538min
199. Being Gentler with Ourselves Throughout the Creative Process featuring Sarah Boon
Sarah Boon joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about allowing elements of a memoir to reveal themselves, radical acceptance of what we need as a writer and what we can feasibly accomplish with ...
4 Sep 202529min
