by ronitplank | May 7, 2024 | Let's Talk Memoir
Let's Talk Memoir Episode 94 ft. Steve Almond Steve Almond joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about the ambivalence memoirists often experience when writing about others, the story underneath the story we are telling, disrupting the negative feedback loop of...
by ronitplank | Apr 30, 2024 | Let's Talk Memoir
Let's Talk Memoir Episode 93 ft. Vivian Gornick Acclaimed memoirist and teacher Vivian Gornick joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about the origins of her approach to memoir, the crucial difference between situations and stories, why implicating ourselves in...
by ronitplank | Apr 25, 2024 | Let's Talk Memoir
Let's Talk Memoir Episode 92 ft. Cait West Cait West joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about growing up in and leaving Christian patriarchy, indoctrination, identifying and writing about the rifts she felt in herself and her family, gender oppression, using...
by ronitplank | Apr 23, 2024 | Let's Talk Memoir
Let's Talk Memoir Episode 91 ft. Sue William Silverman Sue William Silverman joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about claiming our stories, creative nonfiction as an act of affirmation and courage, tapping into artistic masks, discovering answers along the...
by ronitplank | Apr 18, 2024 | Let's Talk Memoir
Let's Talk Memoir Episode 90 ft. Kathleen Dorothy Blackburn Kathleen Dorothy Blackburn joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about listening to and putting our younger selves on the page, recognizing family codes we can no longer adhere to, place as a character...
by ronitplank | Apr 16, 2024 | Let's Talk Memoir
Let's Talk Memoir Episode 89 ft. Kate Manne Kate Manne joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about coming of age in fatphobic culture, disentangling the threads of weight, health, and diet culture, the racism at the root of anti-fatness, writing ourselves out and...
