Let's Talk Memoir

Episode 91 ft. Sue William Silverman

Brooke Warner

Sue William Silverman joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about claiming our stories, creative nonfiction as an act of affirmation and courage, tapping into artistic masks, discovering answers along the way, the aware and the unaware voice, writing metaphorically and sensorily, the arc of reflection and the arc of action, her decades of teaching at the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA program and her newest book Acetylene Torch Songs: Writing True Stories to Ignite the Soul.

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Episode 262 ft. Kate Jackson

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Episode 261 ft. Suzanne Roberts

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