Let’s Talk Memoir – Season 2, Episode 14 ft. Vincent Paterson and Amy Tofte

EPISODE 29 Happy Valentine’s Day! In honor of artistic partnership, Vincent Paterson and Amy Tofte join Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation on their experience collaborating on their new book Icons and Instincts, Vincent’s experience working with Madonna, Robin Williams, and other stars, the 6-step process Amy relied on during the writing process, the fight […]

Let’s Talk Memoir – Season 2, Episode 13 ft. Maria Giura

EPISODE 28 Maria Giura joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about which stories define us, avoiding the self-pity trap, the importance of allowing the reader to make decisions about the characters in our memoir for themselves, how we frame childhood and family dynamics, writing about the very early versions of ourselves after we’ve changed […]

Let’s Talk Memoir – Season 2, Episode 12 ft. Buick Audra

EPISODE 27 Buick Audra joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about her new album and companion memoir in essays Conversations with My Other Voice, the importance of protecting our work from judgment, being an abuse survivor, how she views regret, and the tool she used when deciding which details to share about others and […]

Let’s Talk Memoir – Season 2, Episode 11 ft. Beth Kephart

EPISODE 26 Beth Kephart joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about the crucial differences between a book of essays and a memoir in essays, choosing what to keep and what to cut, the gifts of nonlinear storytelling, the ethics of telling other people’s stories, allowing ourselves to find beauty in the seemingly ordinary, and […]

Let’s Talk Memoir – Season 2, Episode 10 ft. Lori L. Tharps

EPISODE 25 Lori L. Tharps join Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about why memoirs are not an indulgence, the importance of finding your memoir’s theme, deciding where your book should begin, having a writing life that feeds you and also keeps you fed, and systemic racism in the U.S. and how her Black and […]

Let’s Talk Memoir – Season 2, Episode 9 ft. Allison K. Williams

EPISODE 24 Literary Citizen of the Year Allison K Williams joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about the importance of plot, structure, and dramatic arc in memoir, the elements that make a story a story, insuring your memoir has a reader takeaway, what being in the circus taught her about writing, why she calls […]

Let’s Talk Memoir – Season 2, Episode 8 ft. Kathy Curto

EPISODE 23 Kathy Curto joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about accepting imperfection in our writing, the effect of time and distance in our work, finding beauty even in the painful, what she’s learned through teaching writing to a broad range of students, and her memoir in micro essays Not for Nothing: Glimpse into […]

Let’s Talk Memoir – Season 2, Episode 7 ft. Laura Davis

EPISODE 22 Celebrated author and memoir teacher Laura Davis joins Let’sTalk Memoir for a special holiday episode for a conversation about writing her memoir The Burning Light of Two Stars: A Mother-Daughter Story and how she reconciled with the mother who betrayed her and came to care for her in her final days. In this […]

Let’s Talk Memoir – Season 2, Episode 6 ft. the Waterfield Sisters

EPISODE 21 Keema and Tekla Waterfield join Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about being raised by a young single mother in Southeast Alaska after their father left the family. With very little money but a passion for music and art, their mother moved them frequently in pursuit of her education, gigs, and new relationships. […]

Let’s Talk Memoir – Season 2, Episode 5 ft. John Ross Bowie

EPISODE 20 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 […]