
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 Mars 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 Mars 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 Mars 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 Mars 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 Mars 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 Mars 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





















