85. Having Roots and Losing Them: Writing About the Crisis in Venezuela Through Memoir featuring Paula Ramón
Paula Ramón joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about pivoting from journalism to memoir to tell the story of Venezuela’s collapse, understanding the history of her country before and after Cha...
26 Mar 202445min
84. Guilt, Infertility, and Documenting Reproductive Rights in Memoir featuring Ellen Weir Casey
Ellen Weir Casey joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about infertility and becoming the mother of one of the world’s first IVF babies in the earliest days of assisted reproductive technology, t...
21 Mar 202445min
83. The Vulnerability of Writing About Difficult Motherhoods featuring Karen DeBonis
Karen DeBonis joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about the obstacles and medical gaslighting she faced trying to uncover what ailed her son, postpartum depression, writing about difficult moth...
19 Mar 202445min
82. Loving and Writing About an Imperfect, Magnificent Child featuring Cathy Shields
Cathy Shields joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about the role guilt and grief have played in her experience parenting a unique child, how she has navigated her daughter’s diagnosis of severe...
14 Mar 202428min
81. Self-Declared Spiritual Gurus, Secret Mantras, and Yoga Cults featuring Joelle Tamraz
Joelle Tamraz joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about yoga cults and self-declared spiritual gurus, searching for something outside ourselves, mind control, transcendental meditation, capturi...
12 Mar 202437min
80. Realizing You’ve Actually Been Writing Your Book featuring Rona Maynard
Rona Maynard joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about allowing ourselves to get lost in our writing, realizing you've actually been writing your book, observing our animal companions keenly, e...
7 Mar 202436min
79. Understanding How to Let Go featuring Ann Batchelder
Ann Batchelder joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about using myth as a jumping point for interpreting ourselves, trusting intuition, the idea of mother failure, regret and letting go, addicti...
5 Mar 202432min
78. The Very Good News About Publishing featuring Brooke Warner
Brooke Warner joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about nontraditional publishing, the massive sea change we’re seeing in memoir, how for authors visibility and marketing work is never done, pr...
27 Feb 202442min
