125. The Many Different Versions of Ourselves on the Page featuring Brooke Champagne
Brooke Champagne joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about rejecting and accepting identity, growing up in New Orleans and feeling bifurcated by race, language, and class, knowing you’re a writ...
17 Okt 202445min
124. Excavating a Sister’s Story featuring Deborah Kasdan
Deborah Kasdan joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about her older sister’s schizophrenia diagnosis, the decision to commit a child, family dynamics and epigenetics, what it is to be marginaliz...
15 Okt 202439min
123. Balancing the Child and Adult Voice featuring Katya Cengel
Katya Cengel joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about the three months she spent as a child in a psychosomatic ward, her career in journalism, institutionalization and treating kids with menta...
8 Okt 202441min
122. Uncovering a Lost Family History featuring Margaret Juhae Lee
Margaret Juhae Lee joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about searching for her family’s lost history, growing up as a first generation Korean American living in Houston, archival work and inter...
1 Okt 202437min
121. Allowing Scenes and Dialogue to Do The Work featuring Becky Ellis
Becky Ellis joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about growing up in the shadow of a father’s war trauma, what happens when soldiers come home, the power of secrets, the divided self and why mem...
24 Sep 202444min
120. What Remains Unsolved In Us featuring Jaclyn Moyer
Jaclyn Moyer joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about excavating what remains unsolved within us, clueing the reader in early in our pages, how each draft leads to a door to the next, leaning ...
19 Sep 202441min
119. Leaning into Honesty, the Darkly Funny, and the Jewish featuring Gila Pfeffer
Gila Pfeffer joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about outsmarting genetic destinies and her preventative double mastectomy, remembering what’s at stake in our work, tempering the serious with ...
17 Sep 202449min
118. Memoir Manifestos and Taking Back Our Power featuring Jessica Buchanan
Jessica Buchanan joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about her capture by pirates in Somalia in 2011 and how her life’s trajectory was irrevocably changed, taking back power, holding space for ...
10 Sep 202438min
