257. Unburdening Ourselves From Decades of Shame featuring Kim Murphy
Kim Murphy joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about unburdening herself from decades of shame, her often absent and unpredictable mother, what we owe or don’t owe our parents at the end of the...
1 Sep 40min
256. The Catharsis of Memoir: From Resentment to Understanding featuring Jason Allen
Jason Allen joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about growing up working poor on Eastern Long Island with an alcoholic father, the threat of different types of violence, his father’s quickness ...
25 Aug 46min
255. The Relief That Comes From Sharing the Toughest Thing featuring Dr. Kara Zivin
Dr. Kara Zivin joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about maternal mental health and her own her mental health crisis during pregnancy and postpartum, how she became a patient and professor in t...
18 Aug 42min
254. Writing the Hard Stuff featuring Nicole Walker
Nicole Walker joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about how we talk about current traumas and past traumas in ways that don’t retraumatize us, making our work matter to others, giving ourselves...
11 Aug 34min
253. Getting to the Story Beneath the Story featuring D/Annie Liontas
D/Annie Liontas joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about suffering 3 brain injuries in one year and how that changed their relationship to their body and to the world, post-concussive syndrome...
4 Aug 31min
252. Pulling Readers Inside Our Experience with Specificity and Particularity featuring Rachel Weaver
Rachel Weaver joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about the mysterious illness she lived with for nearly two decades, seeing 30-40 doctors and spending 18 years in the medical system, the toll ...
28 Jul 37min
251. Mining Opening Pages for Impact featuring Deborah K. Shepherd
Deborah Shepherd joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about the large age gap in her first marriage and having mixed feelings about the love story of her youth, the titillation of secrecy and hu...
21 Jul 35min
250. Leaning into Bursts of Memory featuring Samina Najmi
Samina Najmi joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about growing up under a military dictatorship in Pakistan, the colonial legacy in South Asia, writing about migration, race, and gender, teachi...
14 Jul 35min
