43. Trusting Our Writing Selves featuring Gayle Brandeis
Gayle Brandeis joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about losing her mother to suicide and finding a way to write about it, her work across genres, leaning into what makes us unique on the page,...
16 Mai 202340min
42. The Deeply Researched Memoir featuring Jennifer Lunden
Jennifer Lunden joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about her experience with ME/CFS and her new braided memoir American Breakdown: Our Ailing Nation, My Body's Revolt, and the Nineteenth-Centu...
9 Mai 202359min
41. Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden featuring Camille T. Dungy
Camille T. Dungy joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about who speaks about the natural world and how, erasure in life and in art, the white gaze, reviewing the cannon of environmental literatu...
2 Mai 202349min
4p The Spiritual Memoir featuring Sarah Birnbach
Sarah Birnbach joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about grief and the wished-for mother, how Jewish prayer anchored her as she mourned the father she adored, birth order and responsibility, ho...
25 Apr 202339min
39. Processing Grief with Words featuring Candace Cahill
Candace Cahill joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about placing her newborn son for adoption and meeting him as an adult shortly before his death, writing for clarity, negotiating guilt, findi...
18 Apr 202331min
38. You Could Make This Place Beautiful featuring Maggie Smith
Maggie Smith joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about having and holding boundaries in our work and in our lives, trusting our instincts as writers, taking risks, telling the truth as we know ...
11 Apr 202338min
37. Sharing A Dangerous Story featuring Erika Bornman
Erika Bornman joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about her experience escaping from KwaSizabantu and her participation in News24’s exposé alleging this strict Christian mission is a cult is a ...
4 Apr 202344min
36. Writing What You Have To featuring Sandi Wisenberg
Sandi Wisenberg joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about finding home, the structure our books need, her career as a journalist, negotiating a legacy of woman shame and Jewish shame, writing w...
28 Mar 202356min
