Let's Talk Memoir

Episode 44 ft. Reed Harkness

Brooke Warner

Reed Harkness joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about a mother who goes missing, intergenerational trauma, moving into discomfort in service of truth-telling, what’s ours to tell, masculinity and brotherhood, the hero’s journey as a template for story arc, and what he’s  learned about vulnerability from documenting 25 years of his family’s story in his new deeply personal film Sam Now.

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Episode 231 ft. Wendy C. Ortiz

Episode 231 ft. Wendy C. Ortiz

Wendy C. Ortiz joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about the English teacher who preyed on her when she was thirteen, writing about the person we are now when writing about our past, placing the reader in the physical and psychological experience of...

Episode 230 ft. Mallary Tenore Tarpley

Episode 230 ft. Mallary Tenore Tarpley

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