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 260 ft. Jamie Leigh Lorente

Episode 260 ft. Jamie Leigh Lorente

Jamie Leigh Lorente joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about not getting to know her biological father who emigrated from Cuba during the Cold War from Cuba as an unaccompanied minor until the end of his life, how we learn to understand and accept one another...

Episode 259 ft. Deborah Derrickson Kossmann

Episode 259 ft. Deborah Derrickson Kossmann

Deborah Derrickson Kossmann joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about how complicated family dynamics culminated in her mother’s severe hoarding disorder, grieving what you didn’t get as a child, going back to rescue the past, sharing family secrets,...

Episode 258 ft. Deborah Sosin

Episode 258 ft. Deborah Sosin

Deborah Sosin joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about writing 70 micro memoirs of 70 words each to mark her 70th birthday, her love of compression and concision, working in themes, sitting with the memory of a scene and understanding its emotional truth,...