Let's Talk Memoir

Episode 52 ft. Brittany Means

Brooke Warner

Brittany Means joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about growing up vagrant, writing about child sexual abuse, how she began first with the scenes that haunted her, depicting traumatic material with complexity and compassion, leaning into her narrative voice, when she felt like a writer with a capital “W”, and her new memoir Hell If We Don’t Change Our Ways.

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Episode 240 ft. Monica Macansantos

Episode 240 ft. Monica Macansantos

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Episode 239 ft. Jacque Gorelick

Episode 239 ft. Jacque Gorelick

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