226. Homing in on Why We Need to Tell Our Story featuring Blair Glaser
Blair Glaser joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about her time on a Catskills ashram during her twenties in the 1990s, yearning and the thrilling and perilous idolization of other human beings...
17 Feb 39min
225. Writing Closer to the Bone featuring Bee Wilson
Bee Wilson joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about the evolution of our narratives, how each book teaches you how to write it, approaching memoir from many different angles, how there’s no pr...
10 Feb 41min
224. Writing About Chasing an Unconventional Life and Feeling Haunted featuring Alex Poppe
Alex Poppe joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about working in conflict zones, living abroad and negotiating cultural differences, teaching in northern Iraq, youth and female resilience, pursu...
3 Feb 35min
223. Creating the Life That We Want to Live Inside with Words featuring Louise Southerden
Louise Southerden joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about building a tiny home in Australia by hand during the Covid pandemic, being a travel writer for much of her career, choosing freedom o...
27 Jan 45min
222. Unpacking the Scripts We’ve Been Handed featuring Anna Rollins
Anna Rollins joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about the relationship between evangelical purity culture and diet culture, incorporating research and reporting into personal narrative, the in...
20 Jan 34min
221. Writing and Processing Old, Longstanding Anger featuring Steve Eichenblatt
Steve Eichenblatt joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about losing a father through abandonment, the abuse he endured from his adoptive father, living in a household of trauma, feeling emotiona...
13 Jan 36min
220. How to Be Unmothered: Escaping Enmeshment, Going No Contact, and Cocooning Ourselves featuring Camille U. Adams
Dr. Camille U. Adams joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about generations of mothers choosing to unmother their children, colonial violence in Trinidad and Tobago, stifling relationships, cogn...
6 Jan 58min
219. Revealing More Than We Intended featuring Lora Arbrador
Lora Abrador joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation weaving together three themes in her memoir, writing about the ancient technique of egg tempura paint, incorporating 300 images in her book, gai...
30 Des 202549min
