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 117 ft. Myra Sack

Myra Sack joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about losing her very young daughter Havi to Tay-Sachs, a fatal neurodegenerative disease, maternal and parental intuition, compassionate bereavement, how her new memoir is as much a story of extraordinary love as...

Episode 116 ft. Geraldine Deruiter

Episode 116 ft. Geraldine Deruiter

Geraldine DeRuiter joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about how being okay with yourself has become deeply radical, the role women have in the home and culinary world, our complex personal and societal relationship with food and feminism, body unkindness and...

Episode 115 ft. Jo-Ann Finkelstein

Episode 115 ft. Jo-Ann Finkelstein

Jo-Ann Finkelstein, PhD joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about dismantling the fear about sharing our stories, finding the freedom to give voice to what we experienced, recognizing when the culture is the problem not us, unexpressed anger and chronic pain,...