Let's Talk Memoir

Episode 104 ft. Joseph Lezza

Brooke Warner

Joseph Lezza joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about losing loved ones, panic disorder and the stigma around anxiety, anger, shame, and the grieving process, discovering the genre he needed while at an MFA program, lyric essay, how story dictates form, what we can’t shake, and his memoir I’m Never Fine: Scenes and Spasms on Loss.

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Episode 126 ft. Lilly Dancyger

Episode 126 ft. Lilly Dancyger

Lilly Dancyger joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about the challenges of existing in the world as a woman, approaching the writing process with a sense of exploration and curiosity, discovering what's really essential and what can we let go of, the...

Episode 125 ft. Brooke Champagne

Episode 125 ft. Brooke Champagne

Brooke Champagne joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about rejecting and accepting identity, growing up in New Orleans and feeling bifurcated by race, language, and class, knowing you’re a writer, humor on the page, selecting work for a collection, why we...

Episode 124 ft. Deborah Kasdan

Episode 124 ft. Deborah Kasdan

Deborah Kasdan joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about her older sister’s schizophrenia diagnosis, the decision to commit a child, family dynamics and epigenetics, what it is to be marginalized and hidden away, writing expressively, thematic and chronological...