156. Taking Power Back with the Stories We Are Called to Tell featuring Diane Vonglis Parnell
Diane Vonglis Parnell joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about growing up with 9 siblings on an isolated farm under the tyranny of her abusive father and living in constant fear, homing in on ...
11 Mar 202541min
155. Grappling with Contradictions and Leaving Readers Room to Decide featuring Martha S. Jones
Martha S. Jones joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about being Black, white, and other in America, the origins of her family in slavery and sexual violence, anti-miscegenation laws, passing, w...
6 Mar 202539min
154. Mothers and Other Fictional Characters: a Memoir in Essays featuring Nicole Graev Lipson
Nicole Graev Lipson joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about our culture’s fascination with reducing women to readymade templates and archetypes, performing fictional versions of ourselves, fi...
4 Mar 202541min
153. How We Are Haunted featuring Sarah Jaffe
Sarah Jaffe joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about allowing ourselves to be known on the page, learning how to pivot from journalism to the very personal, processing experiences through writ...
27 Feb 202540min
152. Grief Journeys and Storytelling as Closure featuring Susan Lieu
Susan Lieu joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about realizing you’re an artist later in life, becoming a multi-hyphinate storyteller, being a mother when you never knew your own, piecing toget...
25 Feb 202552min
151. Putting the Less Than Heroic Parts of Ourselves on the Page featuring Casey Mulligan Walsh
Casey Mulligan Walsh joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about the search for belonging in the wake of repeated loss, learning to live with grief alongside joy, finding a purpose for our story,...
18 Feb 202550min
150. Writing a Memoir in Three Months featuring Barrie Miskin
Barrie Miskin joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about the rare dissociative disorder she experienced while pregnant and her experience navigating the maternal and mental health care system, t...
13 Feb 202532min
149. Writing Someone Else’s Story featuring Kanya D’Almeida
Kanya D’Almeida joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about how her life changed when a manuscript by Russell "Maroon" Shoatz, a former member of the Black Panther Party and soldier in the Black ...
11 Feb 202538min
