Episode 173 ft. Ruthie Ackerman

Episode 173 ft. Ruthie Ackerman

Let's Talk Memoir Episode 173 ft. Ruthie Ackerman Ruthie Ackerman joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about maternal ambivalence and coming from a long line of women who abandoned their children, taking motherhood on from different angles, feeling ashamed of...
Episode 172 ft. Daria Burke

Episode 172 ft. Daria Burke

Let's Talk Memoir Episode 172 ft. Daria Burke Daria Burke joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about sharing her journey out of Detroit where she was raised in poverty and the question that inspired her memoir, writing well and being well while writing, running...
Episode 171 ft. Tom McAllister

Episode 171 ft. Tom McAllister

Let's Talk Memoir Episode 171 ft. Tom McAllister Tom McAllister joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about finding the right container for our work trusting our writing to speak for itself, giving ourselves homework, writing constraints as guiding principles,...
Episode 170 ft. Bonny Reichert

Episode 170 ft. Bonny Reichert

Let's Talk Memoir Episode 170 ft. Bonny Reichert Bonny Reichert joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about not knowing if she’d find a way to tell the story that weighed on her, growing up in the shadow of traumatic family history, selling on proposal and...
Episode 169 ft. Vicky Nguyen

Episode 169 ft. Vicky Nguyen

Let's Talk Memoir Episode 169 ft. Vicky Nguyen Vicky Nguyen joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about growing up Vietnamese in America and what this country has meant for someone like her, writing memoir as a public figure, pivoting as a writer, not being too...
Episode 168 ft. KB Brookins

Episode 168 ft. KB Brookins

Let's Talk Memoir Episode 168 ft. KB Brookins KB Brookins joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about transness, masculinity, and race, how how being a writer has crystalized their experience and made it legible to an audience and to themselves, turning to prose...