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 220 ft. Camille U. Adams

Episode 220 ft. Camille U. Adams

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Episode 219 ft. Lora Arbrador

Episode 219 ft. Lora Arbrador

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