Let's Talk Memoir

Episode 56 ft. Jennifer Lang

Brooke Warner

Jennifer Lang joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about compressing prose and chopping manuscripts, leaning into the experimental and remembering to play on the page, distilling material, staying nimble-minded, her husband and her becoming characters on the page, founding Israel Writers Studio, and her new memoir Places We Left Behind. 

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Episode 254 ft. Nicole Walker

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