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 93 ft. Vivian Gornick

Episode 93 ft. Vivian Gornick

Acclaimed memoirist and teacher Vivian Gornick joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about the origins of her approach to memoir, the crucial difference between situations and stories, why implicating ourselves in our work makes us trustworthy to our reader,...

Episode 92 ft. Cait West

Episode 92 ft. Cait West

Cait West joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about growing up in and leaving Christian patriarchy, indoctrination, identifying and writing about the rifts she felt in herself and her family, gender oppression, using geology as a metaphor, moving from memoir in...

Episode 91 ft. Sue William Silverman

Episode 91 ft. Sue William Silverman

Sue William Silverman joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about claiming our stories, creative nonfiction as an act of affirmation and courage, tapping into artistic masks, discovering answers along the way, the aware and the unaware voice, writing...