213. Who We Are After Mother Loss featuring Tamara Jong
Tamara Jong joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about growing up Jehovah’s Witness, her mother's untimely passing, losing faith, disguising who we are, trying multiple approaches to a writing p...
25 Nov 202534min
212. Setting Your Writing Apart: A Conversation with Four Editors - Diane Gottlieb, Jennifer Fliss, Nina B. Lichtenstein, and Ronit Plank on Manna Songs: Stories of Jewish Culture and Heritage
Diane Gottlieb, Jennifer Fliss, and Nina B. Lichtenstein join Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about their work as editors and what they look for in submissions, setting your writing apart, knowin...
20 Nov 202559min
211. Writing About Ourselves and Others with Nuance and Complexity featuring Edgar Gomez
Edgar Gomez joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about growing up poor in Florida, wanting to believe in the American dream and realizing it’s not accessible, surviving a precarious childhood, r...
18 Nov 202546min
210. Why It’s Never Too Late to Move Forward featuring Anne Abel
Anne Abel joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about her experiences winning the Moth StorySLAM, what she learned from the storytelling community, the lifelong toll of her parents’ abuse and her...
11 Nov 202534min
209. Reclaiming Identity and Trusting Our Own Process featuring Heather Sweeney
Heather Sweeney joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about her quest to find out who she was apart from her life as a military wife, mining 20 years worth of journals, uncovering internal dynami...
4 Nov 202542min
208. Leaning into and Trusting the Particularity of Our Story featuring Kelly Foster Lundquist
Kelly Foster Lundquist joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about falling in love with creative nonfiction, believing our story is worth sharing, contemplating how to tell it without hurting som...
28 Okt 202539min
207. Growing as a Person and as a Writer featuring Shigeko Ito
Shigeko Ito joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about the lasting impact of childhood emotional neglect, how invisible trauma can manifest in adult life, fragmented memories, facing a fierce in...
21 Okt 202530min
206. Changing the Culture of Abuse and Family Dysfunction Through Memoir featuring Leslie Johansen Nack
Leslie Johansen Nack joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about growing up with parents who struggled with mental illness and substance abuse, surviving an inappropriate and domineering father, ...
14 Okt 202533min
