Episode 44 ft. Reed Harkness

Episode 44 ft. Reed Harkness

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...
Episode 43 ft. Gayle Brandeis

Episode 43 ft. Gayle Brandeis

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...
Episode 42 ft. Jennifer Lunden

Episode 42 ft. Jennifer Lunden

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...
Episode 41 ft. Camille T. Dungy

Episode 41 ft. Camille T. Dungy

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...
Episode 40 ft. Sarah Birnbach

Episode 40 ft. Sarah Birnbach

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...
Episode 39 ft. Candace Cahill

Episode 39 ft. Candace Cahill

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...