Let's Talk Memoir

Episode 31 ft. Suzanne Roberts

Brooke Warner

Suzanne Roberts joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about the difficulty of being in a human body – especially a woman’s, the male gaze, deciding how to approach our work, writing about loss, grief, death, and desire, reading widely and deeply, being an employee to our art, and Animal Bodies, her memoir made of lyrical essays, narrative pieces, and prose poems.

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Episode 236 ft. Rachel Tzvia Back

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Episode 235 ft. Julie Scolnik

Episode 235 ft. Julie Scolnik

Julie Scolnik joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about falling madly in love with a married Frenchman when she was 20 years old and living in Paris studying music, working our way back from aching first love, searching for answers, cutting everything that...

Episode 234 ft. Stephanie Weaver

Episode 234 ft. Stephanie Weaver

Stephanie Weaver MPH joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about family estrangement, gaslighting, her recovered memories of childhood sexual abuse, chronic illness, not wanting a book to be about revenge, reframing a memoir around a larger cultural moment to...