Let's Talk Memoir with Ronit Plank & Guests

Let’s Talk Memoir is a podcast for memoir lovers, readers and writers, featuring interviews with memoirists about their writing process, their challenges, and what they’ve learned about sharing the most personal of narratives. Hosted by writer, speaker, and memoirist Ronit Plank, each episode of this limited series highlights different aspects of the memoir writing experience, writing tips, and inspiration.

THIS WEEK ON LET'S TALK MEMOIR

Episode 49 ft. Patty Lin

Patty Lin joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about her former career in television and how she knew she was done with show business, naming names in memoir manuscripts and legal reviews, mother-daughter narratives, sensory details that put the reader in the room, and her new memoir End Credits: How I Broke Up With Hollywood.

About The Host

Ronit’s essays and fiction have been featured in The Atlantic, The Rumpus, The New York Times, The Iowa Review, The Washington Post, Writer’s Digest, American Literary Review, and elsewhere. Her memoir WHEN SHE COMES BACK about the loss of her mother to the guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and their eventual reconciliation was named Finalist in both the 2021 Best Book Awards and the 2021 Book of the Year Award and a 2021 Best True Crime Book by Book Riot. Her short story collection HOME IS A MADE-UP PLACE won Hidden River Arts’ 2020 Eludia Award and will be published in 2022. She is host and producer of the podcasts And Then Everything Changed and The Body Myth.

More about WHEN SHE COMES BACK, a memoir.

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OTHER EPISODES

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Let’s Talk Memoir – Episode 48 ft. Clare Frank

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Let’s Talk Memoir – Episode 47 ft. Dinty W. Moore

Ronit Plank and Abigail Thomas

Let’s Talk Memoir – Episode 46 ft. Abigail Thomas

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Let’s Talk Memoir – Season 3 Is Coming!

Let’s Talk Memoir – Episode 45: Season 2 Is Wrapped!

Let’s Talk Memoir – Episode 44 ft. Reed Harkness

Let’s Talk Memoir – Episode 43 ft. Gayle Brandeis

Let’s Talk Memoir – Episode 42 ft. Jennifer Lunden

Let’s Talk Memoir – Episode 41 ft. Camille T. Dungy

Let’s Talk Memoir – Episode 40 ft. Sarah Birnbach

Let’s Talk Memoir – Episode 39 ft. Candace Cahill

Let’s Talk Memoir – Episode 38 ft. Maggie Smith

Let’s Talk Memoir – Episode 37 ft. Erika Bornman

Let’s Talk Memoir – Episode 36 ft. Sandi Wisenberg

Let’s Talk Memoir – Episode 35 ft. Stacey Freeman

Let’s Talk Memoir – Episode 34 ft. Jasmin Faulk-Dickerson

Let’s Talk Memoir – Episode 33 ft. Debbie Weiss

Let’s Talk Memoir – Episode 32 ft. Laura Cathcart Robbins

Let’s Talk Memoir – Episode 31 ft. Suzanne Roberts

Let’s Talk Memoir – Episode 30 ft. Felicia Thai Heath

Let’s Talk Memoir – Episode 29 ft. Vincent Paterson and Amy Tofte

Let’s Talk Memoir – Episode 29 ft. Maria Giura

Let’s Talk Memoir – Episode 28 ft. Buick Audra

Let’s Talk Memoir – Episode 27 ft. Beth Kephart

Let’s Talk Memoir – Episode 26 ft. Lori L. Tharps

Let’s Talk Memoir – Episode 25 ft. Allison K. Williams

Let’s Talk Memoir – Episode 24 ft. Kathy Curto

Let’s Talk Memoir – Episode 23 ft. Laura Davis

Let’s Talk Memoir – Episode 22 ft. the Waterfield Sisters

Let’s Talk Memoir – Episode 21 ft. John Ross Bowie

Let’s Talk Memoir – Episode 20 ft. Isidra Mencos

Let’s Talk Memoir – Episode 19 ft. Jamie Gehring

Let’s Talk Memoir – Episode 18 ft. Lily Dunn

Let’s Talk Memoir – Episode 17 ft. Sonya Huber

Let’s Talk Memoir – Season 2 Launching Soon

Let's Talk Memoir - Season 1, Episode 15 ft. Dr. Virginia Campbell

Let’s Talk Memoir – Season 1, Episode 15 ft. Dr. Virginia Campbell

Let's Talk Memoir - Season 1, Episode 14 ft. Phillip Lopate (Main)

Let’s Talk Memoir – Season 1, Episode 14 ft. Phillip Lopate

Let's Talk Memoir - Season 1, Episode 13 ft. Judy Bolton-Fasman (Main)

Let’s Talk Memoir – Season 1, Episode 13 ft. Judy Bolton-Fasman

Let's Talk Memoir - Season 1, Episode 12 ft. Laura Davis

Let’s Talk Memoir – Season 1, Episode 12 ft. Laura Davis

Let's Talk Memoir - Season 1, Episode 11 ft. Paulette Perhach

Let’s Talk Memoir – Season 1, Episode 11 ft. Paulette Perhach

Let's Talk Memoir - Season 1, Episode 10 ft. Kelly Sundberg (Main)

Let’s Talk Memoir – Season 1, Episode 10 ft. Kelly Sundberg

Let's Talk Memoir - Season 1, Episode 9 ft. Debi Lewis

Let’s Talk Memoir – Season 1, Episode 9 ft. Debi Lewis

Let's Talk Memoir - Season 1, Episode 8 ft. Jane Friedman

Let’s Talk Memoir – Season 1, Episode 8 ft. Jane Friedman

Let's Talk Memoir - Season 1, Episode 7 ft. Melissa Gould (Main)

Let’s Talk Memoir – Season 1, Episode 7 ft. Melissa Gould

Let's Talk Memoir - Season 1, Episode 6 ft. Meg Weber

Let’s Talk Memoir – Season 1, Episode 6 ft. Meg Weber

Let's Talk Memoir - Season 1, Episode 5 ft. Andrea Ross

Let’s Talk Memoir – Season 1, Episode 5 ft. Andrea Ross

Let’s Talk Memoir – Season 1, Episode 4 ft. Ellen Blum Barish

Let's Talk Memoir - Season 1, Episode 4 ft. Ellen Blum Barish

Let’s Talk Memoir – Season 1, Episode 3 ft. Christie Tate

Let’s Talk Memoir – Season 1, Episode 2 ft. Jeannine Ouellette

Let’s Talk Memoir – Season 1, Episode 1 ft. Debra Gwartney

THANKS FOR LISTENING!

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I’m thrilled to announce my memoir When She Comes Back (Motina Books 2021) is now available for purchase. 𝙒𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙎𝙝𝙚 𝘾𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙨 𝘽𝙖𝙘𝙠 is a coming-of-age memoir set in the 70s and 80s about losing my mother to a guru in India, giving up power, growing up too fast, and what happens when the person your life revolves around can’t stay.

Take a deep dive… into a featured guest’s personal history; the pivotal moments of their childhood and adulthood that defined them and the crucial and sometimes painful decisions they made that forever changed the course of their lives.

ABOUT RONIT

Learn more about Ronit Plank’s story here.

I’m a writer, podcaster, teacher, and storyteller. Some of my work has been published in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The HuffPost, and The Rumpus, but for a complete list of links please visit my Published Works page.

My passion is learning how someone else has lived or survived or has come to understand something about themselves. I love the way stories–whether fiction or nonfiction or interviews–bridge vastly different lived experiences and help connect those who might not otherwise have found each other. Listening to someone tell you their truth and being able to share your own can be the glue that keeps us together and seen and supported.

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