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 166 ft. Julie Brill

Episode 166 ft. Julie Brill

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Episode 165 ft. Margaret Anne Mary Moore

Episode 165 ft. Margaret Anne Mary Moore

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