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Life Stories #38: Marco Roth
Subscribe to Life Stories in iTunes photo: Endre Somogyi After a summer hiatus, Life Stories, the podcast series where I interview memoir writers about their lives and the art of writing memoir,...
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Life Stories #39: MK Asante
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Life Stories #40: Jessica Dorfman Jones
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Life Stories #41: David Schickler
Subscribe to Life Stories in iTunes photo: Martha Schickler In this episode of Life Stories, David Schickler guides us through The Dark Path, his memoir about struggling, in his late teens and early...
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Life Stories #42: Gary Burton
Subscribe to Life Stories in iTunes photo: Jimmy Katz (Mack Ave Records) In this episode of Life Stories, I chat with jazz musician Gary Burton about Learning to Listen. Introduced to the vibraphone at...
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Life Stories #43: Phyllis Chesler
Subscribe to Life Stories in iTunes photo: Joan L. Roth For this episode of Life Stories, I met Phyllis Chesler to discuss her new memoir, An American Bride in Kabul, which recounts how, after marrying...
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Life Stories #44: Jesmyn Ward
Subscribe to Life Stories in iTunes photo: Tony Cook Two years ago, I met Jesmyn Ward just after she’d won the National Book Award for her second novel, Salvage the Bones. Up until then, she and her...
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Life Stories #45: Dani Shapiro
Subscribe to Life Stories in iTunes illustration: Barry Blitt “The relationship between the teller and the tale is the tale in memoir,” Dani Shapiro proposes in this week’s episode of Life Stories, a...
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Life Stories #46: Victoria Loustalot
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Life Stories #47: Shahan Mufti
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Life Stories #48: Patty Chang Anker
Subscribe to Life Stories in iTunes photo: Alison Sheehy In this episode of Life Stories, I reunited with an old friend, Patty Chang Anker, to talk about her memoir, Some Nerve, in which she recounts...
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Life Stories #49: Jessica Alexander
Subscribe to Life Stories in iTunes photo: Amy Braithwaite In Chasing Chaos, Jessica Alexander writes about her experiences as a humanitarian aid worker in places like Rwanda, Darfur, and Haiti—and how...
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Life Stories #50: Richard Rodriguez
Subscribe to Life Stories in iTunes photo: Timothy Archibald Though billed as a “spiritual autobiography,” Richard Rodriguez’s Darling might more accurately be described as a collection of essays that...
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Life Stories #51: Ellen Stimson
Subscribe to Life Stories in iTunes photo: Natalie Stultz In this episode of Life Stories, the podcast series where I talk to memoir writers about their lives and the art of writing memoir, Ellen...
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Life Stories #52: Ann Mah & Anya von Bremzen
Subscribe to Life Stories in iTunes photos: Katia Grimmer-Laversanne (Mah); John von Pamer (von Bremzen) This episode of Life Stories brings together two women whose food-inflected memoirs took their...
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Life Stories #53: Wendy Welch
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Life Stories #54: Josh Ruxin
Subscribe to Life Stories in iTunes photo: Adil Bahalim Life Stories is a podcast series where I talk to memoir writers about their lives and the art of writing memoir. In this episode, you’ll meet...
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Life Stories #55: Nancy K. Miller
Subscribe to Life Stories in iTunes photos: courtesy Nancy K. Miller Life Stories is a podcast series where I talk to memoir writers about their lives and the art of writing memoir. This week’s guest,...
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Life Stories #1: Heather Donahue
I mentioned, back in January, that I had big plans for 2012, and it’s time to unveil one of them: a new podcast series called Life Stories, in which I will be interviewing memoir writers about their...
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Life Stories #2: Storm Large
In the second installment of the Life Stories podcast, I talk with Storm Large about Crazy Enough, a memoir of her mother’s mental illness and the paths that Storm’s fear of sharing her fate—instilled...
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