Let’s Talk Memoir – Episode 51 ft. LL Kirchner

Episode 51 ft. LL Kirchner LL Kirchner joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about compressing material and managing timelines, writing about addiction and recovery, radical compassion, polyamory, yoga scandals and sex cults, and her new memoir Blissful Thinking. Listen on iTunes Listen on Spotify YOU MAY ALSO LIKE ABOUT THE HOST MEET RONIT Ronit’s […]

Let’s Talk Memoir – Episode 50 ft. Heather Lanier

Episode 50 ft. Heather Lanier Heather Lanier joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about finding the psychic distance and narrative voice your memoir needs, writing about our children, defying the tyranny of normal, personal narratives for social change, excavating our own ableism, blogs vs. literary essays, avoiding self-pity, and her Raising a Rare Girl, […]

Let’s Talk Memoir – Episode 49 ft. Patty Lin

Episode 49 ft. Patty Lin Patty Lin joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about her former career in television and how she knew she was done with show business, naming names in memoir manuscripts and legal reviews, mother-daughter narratives, sensory details that put the reader in the room, and her new memoir End Credits: […]

Let’s Talk Memoir – Episode 48 ft. Clare Frank

Episode 48 ft. Clare Frank Clare Frank joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about writing a female-career-centered memoir, letting structure dictate content, when an agent really loves your voice but doesn’t think they can sell your book, the lifelong relationship she’s had with fire, and her new memoir Burnt. Listen on iTunes Listen on […]

Let’s Talk Memoir is back

Let’s Talk Memoir is back! I knew September was going to be big and here we are mid-month and the days are already hopping. Kids are back at school, pumpkin spice lattes are sprouting up everywhere – I’ve never had one but people seem to love them – and I’ve got fresh work out for […]

Let’s Talk Memoir – Episode 47 ft. Dinty W. Moore

Episode 47 ft. Dinty W. Moore Dinty W. Moore joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about his 25 years as Editor-in-Chief of Brevity Magazine, elements that set submissions apart and what rejection really means, landing on a writer’s voice, resisting the urge to explain, allowing ourselves to be peculiar, and generating work in play […]

Let’s Talk Memoir – Episode 46 ft. Abigail Thomas

Episode 46 ft. Abigail Thomas Abigail Thomas joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about the importance of curiosity, honesty, and vulnerability in our work, making our own rules on the page, her approach to writing and revision, the story she wasn’t sure how she’d tell, and her newest memoir Still Life at Eighty: The […]

Let’s Talk Memoir – Season 3 Is Coming!

Let’s Talk Memoir Season 3 Is Coming! Season 3 is almost here with fresh interviews on voice, finding structures that work, revision tools, the ethics and legalities of writing about others, what it’s like to move from other creative disciplines to memoir, advocating for our work, and lots more. Season 3 of Let’s Talk Memoir […]

“Let’s Talk” Memoir with Allison K. Williams – TRANSCRIPT

SPEAKERS: Ronit Plank, Allison K. Williams [01:13]­ Ronit Plank: Welcome, Allison. Allison K. Williams: Hi, Ronit. I am so psyched to be here. Ronit Plank: I’m so happy to have you here. And I’m so happy that you’re happy to be here. I just–I’ve been following your work. I mean I knew about you for […]

September is going to be big

September is going to be big I love September. Growing up knowing September was coming put a flutter in my chest. It meant back to school and a new pair of shoes, the buzz of meeting new classmates, the chance to see friends every weekday, and being on a set schedule again (I’m a Virgo […]