Let's Talk Memoir
Episode 139 ft. Jennifer Lang
Jennifer Lang joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about asking the right questions, understanding what home means and where it is, being sure to put your story in the narrative you’re sharing, her sense of self on and off the yoga mat, answers to mid-life questions, learning to write flash prose, putting manuscripts away for a while, being a Jewish writer living in Israel, leaning into experimental and playful prose, coping with imminent empty nests, and her new book Landed: A Yogi’s Memoir in Pieces & Poses.
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Episode 212 ft. Diane Gottlieb, Jennifer Fliss, and Nina B. Lichtenstein
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Episode 211 ft. Edgar Gomez
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