Let's Talk Memoir

Episode 20 ft. John Ross Bowie

Brooke Warner

John Ross Bowie joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about working in Hollywood, mental health, what fatherhood and manhood can mean, the patterns we discover in our lives and write about, incorporating the sensory in our work, grappling with shame, coming to terms with who his father really was, and his new memoir No Job for a Man.

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Episode 179 ft. Erica Stern

Erica Stern joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about self-interrogation and taking risks to tell the story we need to, exploring the liminality of a lived experience through the speculative, hybrid memoir and leaning into history and research to illuminate and...

Episode 178 ft. Marty Ross-Dolen

Episode 178 ft. Marty Ross-Dolen

Marty Ross-Dolen joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation discovering the story while writing, inviting the speculative and magical elements into a narrative, rediscovering lost relatives, advocating for our vision and for our books, scaffolding fragmented forms,...

Episode 177 ft. Alyson Shelton and Lynn Shattuck

Episode 177 ft. Alyson Shelton and Lynn Shattuck

Alyson Shelton and Lynn Shattuck join Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about writing about sibling loss, creating an essay anthology as means to advocate for grief, taking care of ourselves while crafting work about loss, helping people tell their stories,...