by Debi Lewis | May 23, 2023 | Let's Talk Memoir
Let's Talk Memoir Episode 44 ft. Reed Harkness Reed Harkness joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about a mother who goes missing, intergenerational trauma, moving into discomfort in service of truth-telling, what’s ours to tell, masculinity and brotherhood, the...
by Debi Lewis | May 15, 2023 | Let's Talk Memoir
Let's Talk Memoir Episode 43 ft. Gayle Brandeis 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...
by Debi Lewis | May 9, 2023 | Let's Talk Memoir
Let's Talk Memoir Episode 42 ft. Jennifer Lunden Jennifer Lunden joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about her experience with ME/CFS and her new braided memoir American Breakdown: Our Ailing Nation, My Body’s Revolt, and the Nineteenth-Century Woman Who...
by Debi Lewis | May 2, 2023 | Let's Talk Memoir
Let's Talk Memoir Episode 41 ft. Camille T. Dungy Camille T. Dungy joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about who speaks about the natural world and how, erasure in life and in art, the white gaze, reviewing the cannon of environmental literature with a critical...
by Debi Lewis | Apr 25, 2023 | Let's Talk Memoir
Let's Talk Memoir Episode 40 ft. Sarah Birnbach Sarah Birnbach joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about grief and the wished-for mother, how Jewish prayer anchored her as she mourned the father she adored, birth order and responsibility, how spirituality has...
by Debi Lewis | Apr 18, 2023 | Let's Talk Memoir
Let's Talk Memoir Episode 39 ft. Candace Cahill Candace Cahill joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about placing her newborn son for adoption and meeting him as an adult shortly before his death, writing for clarity, negotiating guilt, finding compassion for...