Let's Talk Memoir

Episode 25 ft. Lori L. Tharps

Brooke Warner

Lori L. Tharps join Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about why memoirs are not an indulgence, the importance of finding your memoir’s theme, deciding where your book should begin, having a writing life that feeds you and also keeps you fed, and systemic racism in the U.S. and how her Black and Spanish children were the impetus for her to uncover Spain’s hidden Black history and write her memoir Kinky Gazpacho.

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Episode 156 ft. Diane Vonglis Parnell

Episode 156 ft. Diane Vonglis Parnell

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Episode 155 ft. Martha S. Jones

Episode 155 ft. 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, who we call kin and why, taking up space, avoiding the Black-White...