Let's Talk Memoir
Episode 40 ft. Sarah Birnbach
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 236 ft. Rachel Tzvia Back
Rachel Tzvia Back joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about living with depression, losing a sister, when a mother is emotionally and psychologically absent, how myths can be cloaks, listening to our language and what it offers, thinking in image, when stories...
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
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...