Let's Talk Memoir

Episode 104 ft. Joseph Lezza

Brooke Warner

Joseph Lezza joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about losing loved ones, panic disorder and the stigma around anxiety, anger, shame, and the grieving process, discovering the genre he needed while at an MFA program, lyric essay, how story dictates form, what we can’t shake, and his memoir I’m Never Fine: Scenes and Spasms on Loss.

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Episode 122 ft. Margaret Juhae Lee

Episode 122 ft. Margaret Juhae Lee

Margaret Juhae Lee joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about searching for her family’s lost history, growing up as a first generation Korean American living in Houston, archival work and interviewing relatives, capturing family voice, why we search to...

Episode 121 ft. Becky Ellis

Episode 121 ft. Becky Ellis

Becky Ellis joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about growing up in the shadow of a father’s war trauma, what happens when soldiers come home, the power of secrets, the divided self and why memoirists need to be clear about their psychology, strategies for...

Episode 120 ft. Jaclyn Moyer

Episode 120 ft. Jaclyn Moyer

Jaclyn Moyer joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about excavating what remains unsolved within us, clueing the reader in early in our pages, how each draft leads to a door to the next, leaning into uncomfortable feelings, trusting the writing process,...