Let's Talk Memoir
Episode 69 ft. Gretchen Cherington
Gretchen Cherington joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about complicated family legacies and processing sexual abuse, confronting the public view of a loved one we’re writing about, protecting manuscripts before we have book contracts, corralling information and organizing heaps of material, reading broadly, building relationships and being above board with sources, and her true crime, investigative, family memoir The Butcher, the Embezzler, and the Fall Guy.
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Episode 229 ft. Karen Palmer
Karen Palmer joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about changing her identity to escape a dangerous ex-husband, being stalked, the consequences of deciding to disappear, coming to grips with the experience of domestic abuse, mistaking grief for maturity, telling...
Episode 228 ft. Dorothy Roberts
Dorothy Roberts joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about her father’s interviews beginning in the 1930s with over 500 back-white couples who crossed the color line in Chicago, moving to memoir to explore more personal experiences and feelings, growing up in a...
Episode 227 ft. Rebecca N. Thompson, MD
Rebecca N. Thompson, MD joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about life-threatening pregnancy losses and weaving her own story of navigating a challenging path to parenting with the stories of others, her decade-long collaboration with a remarkable group of...