160. Falling Outside the Containers of What’s Expected featuring Paul Lisicky
Paul Lisicky joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about how his appreciation for Joni Mitchell and love of her work shaped his life as a musician and a writer, vulnerability and uncertainty on ...
1 Apr 202538min
159. Dear Writer: Pep Talks & Practical Advice for the Creative Life featuring Maggie Smith
Maggie Smith returns to Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about letting imposter syndrome go, fiercely guarding your interior life, getting back to the core place where creativity thrives, rewritin...
25 Mar 202528min
158. Writing About a Past Where You Weren’t Present featuring Karen Kirsten
Karen Kirsten joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about the messy complexity of family, asking the right questions, writing about a time in history when you weren’t present in that history, uti...
18 Mar 202540min
157. The Boundaries and Distance We Need to Tell Certain Stories featuring Paula Delgado-Kling
Paula Delgado-Kling joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about how her research and reporting on child soldiers, drug trafficking, and the revolutionary armed forces of Columbia (FARC) led her t...
13 Mar 202542min
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
