Let's Talk Memoir

Episode 71 ft. Jamie Brickhouse

Brooke Warner

Jamie Brickhouse joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about writing and teaching memoir, performing and telling stories, alcoholism and life as a sober artist, being a 5-time Moth StorySLAM winner, his Texas tornado of a mother, why we don’t need good a memory to write a memoir, and his memoir Dangerous When Wet.

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Martha S. Jones joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about being Black, white, and other in America, the origins of her family in slavery and sexual violence, anti-miscegenation laws, passing, who we call kin and why, taking up space, avoiding the Black-White...

Episode 154 ft. Nicole Graev Lipson

Episode 154 ft. Nicole Graev Lipson

Nicole Graev Lipson joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about our culture’s fascination with reducing women to readymade templates and archetypes, performing fictional versions of ourselves, finding our way back to who we are, the essay as a place where writers...

Episode 153 ft. Sarah Jaffe

Episode 153 ft. Sarah Jaffe

Sarah Jaffe joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about allowing ourselves to be known on the page, learning how to pivot from journalism to the very personal, processing experiences through writing, being upended by grief, taking care of ourselves when writing...