91. The Arc of Reflection and The Arc of Action featuring Sue William Silverman
Sue William Silverman joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about claiming our stories, creative nonfiction as an act of affirmation and courage, tapping into artistic masks, discovering answers ...
23 Apr 202442min
90. Allowing Ourselves to Be Seen featuring Kathleen Dorothy Blackburn
Kathleen Dorothy Blackburn joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about listening to and putting our younger selves on the page, recognizing family codes we can no longer adhere to, place as a cha...
18 Apr 202449min
89. The Shame Around Shame and Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia featuring Kate Manne
Kate Manne joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about coming of age in fatphobic culture, disentangling the threads of weight, health, and diet culture, the racism at the root of anti-fatness, w...
16 Apr 202459min
88. Digging to Find a Deeper Story featuring Suzette Mullen
Suzette Mullen joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about digging to find a deeper story and the question we need to ask in memoir, discovering where to begin by getting to the end of our manusc...
9 Apr 202443min
87. Trusting Your Readers, Trusting Yourself featuring Mimi Zieman
Mimi Zieman joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about thinking of ourselves as characters, hooking readers from the beginning, playing with structure, balancing our reflective narrator, trustin...
4 Apr 202447min
86. Season 4 is here! Writing About Trauma Without Retraumatizing Ourselves featuring Lisa Cooper Ellison
Lisa Cooper Ellison joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about therapy vs. memoir, taking care of our nervous systems while working on charged material, writing about trauma without retraumatizi...
2 Apr 202450min
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
