Let's Talk Memoir

Episode 113 ft. Susan Shapiro

Brooke Warner

Susan Shapiro joins Let’s Talk Memoir for part one of our conversation about the nature of forgiveness and why she wrote a memoir about it, being a multiple-memoir writer, why she’s glad her latest took 12 years to complete, starting a memoir with a question, the importance of mentors to our work and life, the nature of therapeutic relationships, overcoming addiction, avoiding kvetch-fests in our pages, working on other projects simultaneously, writing groups, and her memoir The Forgiveness Tour.

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Episode 259 ft. Deborah Derrickson Kossmann

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Episode 258 ft. Deborah Sosin

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