Let's Talk Memoir

Episode 40 ft. Sarah Birnbach

Brooke Warner

Sarah Birnbach joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about grief and the wished-for mother, how Jewish prayer anchored her as she mourned the father she adored, birth order and responsibility, how spirituality has shaped her life, deciding how much to share about her painful relationship with her mother, and publishing her memoir A Daughter’s Kaddish later in life.

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Episode 209 ft. Heather Sweeney

Episode 209 ft. 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 dynamics through writing, knowing where to begin a memoir, managing...

Episode 208 ft. Kelly Foster Lundquist

Episode 208 ft. 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 someone else, shifting from writing academically to personally, taking...

Episode 207 ft. Shigeko Ito

Episode 207 ft. 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 inner critic, accepting limits, growing as a person and as a writer,...