Let's Talk Memoir
Episode 225 ft. Bee Wilson
Bee Wilson joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about the evolution of our narratives, how each book teaches you how to write it, approaching memoir from many different angles, how there’s no predetermined idea of what a memoir needs to be, writing about divorce and her husband leaving at the end of the first lockdown in the UK, the emotional life of kitchen objects, not being afraid to tell our truth, cooking as salve, obligations to our reader and our lives, growing comfortable with the idea of writing about ourselves, how the particular becomes universal, piecing strands together, creating necessary boundaries, writing closer to the bone, and her new memoir about moving on The Heart-Shaped Tin: Love Loss and Kitchen Objects.
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This conversation with Bee Wilson was fascinating, Ronit. Kitchen utensils and the tales they hold. It made me think of my mother’s little nut grinder for cookies and a wooden hamburger press my father would use for special backyard picnics, both of which I have. With this interview you’ve opened a door for me on a way to write into the good times. Thank you .
Thank you for this message, Charlotte. I’m so happy you enjoyed this episode. I loved talking with Bee and I am excited to hear what this conversation helps you discover in your own work.