Let's Talk Memoir

Episode 20 ft. John Ross Bowie

Brooke Warner

John Ross Bowie joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about working in Hollywood, mental health, what fatherhood and manhood can mean, the patterns we discover in our lives and write about, incorporating the sensory in our work, grappling with shame, coming to terms with who his father really was, and his new memoir No Job for a Man.

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Episode 230 ft. Mallary Tenore Tarpley

Episode 230 ft. Mallary Tenore Tarpley

Mallary Tenore Tarpley joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about the middle place between acute sickness and full recovery, living with the imprints of a disorder, resisting thinking in black and white, the memoir plus genre, making memoir reportage and...

Episode 229 ft. Karen Palmer

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

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...