61. A Diagnosis, the Toll of Shame, and a Life of Service featuring Martina Clark
Martina Clark joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about her personal journey with HIV, the toll shame can take, the difference each of us can make, writing a braided memoir, staying a step ahea...
30 Nov 202341min
60. Confronting and Capturing the Complexity of Our Parents on the Page featuring Priscilla Gilman
Priscilla Gilman joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about parentification and hypervigilance in children, toggling between the child character and adult narrator, confronting and capturing the...
28 Nov 202351min
59. Marketing Your Memoir, Preparing for Book Launch, & Going Viral featuring Laura Carney
Laura Carney joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about pluck, endurance, and being the biggest advocate for your book, writing about unresolved grief, what to do to reclaim memory, the truth ab...
21 Nov 202354min
58. Choosing The Scenes That Stay featuring Leslie Ferguson
Leslie Ferguson joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about surviving childhood trauma and her mother’s psychosis, approaching her manuscript through an editorial lens, the toll of insecure attac...
14 Nov 202346min
57. Writing About Mother-Daughter Relationships featuring Adiba Nelson
Adiba Nelson joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about putting humor in our work, the importance of voice, not worrying what people think, writing about mother-daughter relationships, raising t...
7 Nov 202347min
56. Memoir in Miniature featuring Jennifer Lang
Jennifer Lang joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about compressing prose and chopping manuscripts, leaning into the experimental, distilling material, staying nimble-minded, her husband and he...
2 Nov 202335min
55. The Witches of Pitches on Building Platform, Creative Querying, and Stalking Editors featuring Aileen Weintraub and Megan Margulies
The Witches of Pitches are Aileen Weintraub and Megan Margulies here to share their advice about slowing scenes down, remembering that dialogue gives your memoir depth and flavor, finding the other st...
31 Okt 202336min
54. The Truest Story You Can Tell featuring Jill Christman
Jill Christman joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about how our deepest stories can save our lives, approaching trauma-writing as a process of discovery, practical tips for working on difficul...
24 Okt 202347min
