Let's Talk Memoir

Episode 108 ft. Sonya Huber

Brooke Warner

Sonya Huber joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about her approach to generating essays, working on many projects at once, writing as exposure therapy, how essays in a collection talk to each other, paying attention to what intrudes on us, living and working in the tangents, an accumulation of questions around a central theme, protecting people, crossing cultures and crossing classes, confronting ghosts, men and danger, being in relationship with writing, and her latest book, Love and Industry: A Midwestern Workbook.

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Episode 231 ft. Wendy C. Ortiz

Episode 231 ft. Wendy C. Ortiz

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Episode 230 ft. Mallary Tenore Tarpley

Episode 230 ft. Mallary Tenore Tarpley

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