Let's Talk Memoir

Episode 43 ft. Gayle Brandeis

Brooke Warner

Gayle Brandeis joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about losing her mother to suicide and finding a way to write about it, her work across genres, leaning into what makes us unique on the page, trusting ourselves to discover what our work wants to become, why there is no better time to write than now, editing for connection with readers, and her new collection Drawing Breath: Essays on Writing, the Body.

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Episode 162 ft. Bridgett M. Davis

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Episode 161 ft. Megan Williams

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