Let's Talk Memoir

Episode 60 ft. Priscilla Gilman

Brooke Warner

Priscilla Gilman joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about parentification and hypervigilance in children, toggling between the child character and adult narrator, confronting and capturing the complexity of parents on the page, negotiating our inner critic, and her new memoir The Critic’s Daughter.

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Episode 161 ft. Megan Williams

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Episode 160 ft. Paul Lisicky

Episode 160 ft. Paul Lisicky

Paul Lisicky joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about how his appreciation for Joni Mitchell and love of her work shaped his life as a musician and a writer, vulnerability and uncertainty on the page, falling outside the containers of what’s expected, the...

Episode 159 ft. Maggie Smith

Episode 159 ft. Maggie Smith

Maggie Smith returns to Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about letting imposter syndrome go, fiercely guarding your interior life, getting back to the core place where creativity thrives, rewriting a book from scratch, how writing feels in the body, swerving out...