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Life Stories #70: Julia Angwin
Subscribe to Life Stories in iTunes photo: Deborah Copaken Kogan Most of the time, Life Stories features interviews with memoir writers about their lives and the art of writing memoir, but this episode...
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Life Stories #71: Katherine Bouton
Subscribe to Life Stories in iTunes photo: Joyce Ravid In this episode of Life Stories, I chat with Katherine Bouton, who draws heavily upon her personal experience of hearing loss in Shouting Won’t...
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Life Stories #72: Ophira Eisenberg
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Life Stories #73: Annabelle Gurwitch
Subscribe to Life Stories in iTunes photo: Jeanne Cole I’ve known Annabelle Gurwitch for years, so I was delighted to have her as a guest on Life Stories to talk about her new collection of personal...
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Life Stories #74: Damian Barr
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Life Stories #75: Rayya Elias
Subscribe to Life Stories in iTunes photo: Lisa Ross In this episode of Life Stories, the podcast where I interview memoir writers about their lives and the art of writing memoir, Rayya Elias tells us...
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Life Stories #76: Kelly Cogswell
Subscribe to Life Stories in iTunes photo via Kelly Cogswell In this episode of Life Stories, the podcast where I interview memoir writers about their lives and the art of writing memoir, I’m joined by...
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Life Stories #77: Elaine Lui
Subscribe to Life Stories in iTunes photo: Angela Fama/The Grid In this episode of Life Stories, the podcast where I interview memoir writers about their lives and the art of writing memoir, Elaine Lui...
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Life Stories #78: Jen Doll
Subscribe to Life Stories in iTunes photo: Sarah Shatz In this episode of Life Stories, the podcast where I interview memoir writers about their lives and the art of writing memoir, Jen Doll talks...
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Life Stories #79: Molly Wizenberg
Subscribe to Life Stories in iTunes photo: Kyle Johnson When Molly Wizenberg’s husband told her that he wanted to open a New York-style pizzeria in Seattle, she encouraged him—even though, as she...
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Life Stories #80: Ava Chin
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Life Stories #81: Nicole C. Kear
Subscribe to Life Stories in iTunes photo: Justine Cooper Nicole Kear was 19 when she was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, a degenerative condition that, at the time it was discovered, was chipping...
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Life Stories #82: Maria Venegas
Subscribe to Life Stories in iTunes photo: Ricco Long In this episode of Life Stories, the podcast where I talk to memoir writers about their lives and the art of writing memoir, Maria Venegas talks...
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Life Stories #83: Val Wang
In her memoir, Beijing Bastard, Val Wang writes about growing up as a Chinese-American and then moving to Beijing in the late 1990s: “I think a lot of people think I was looking for my roots; that’s a...
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Life Stories #84: Emily Winslow
In the winter of 1992, Emily Winslow was a young theater major getting ready for her next semester when she was followed into her building by a stranger who then forced his way into her apartment and...
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Life Stories #85: Kim Addonizio
I didn’t realize until well into my conversation with Kim Addonizio that she’d written (but never published) a full-length memoir, a straightforward narrative about the breakup of a longterm...
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Life Stories #86: Matteson Perry
After Matteson Perry broke up with his “Manic Pixie Dream Girl,” he realized that he’d never really not been in a serious relationship since high school, and decided it was time to get casual....
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Life Stories #87: Barry Yourgrau
Barry Yourgrau actually lives just around the corner from me in Queens, so it was absurdly easy for us to get together to chat about his memoir, Mess—and the fact that this episode was recorded in my...
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Life Stories #88: John Kaag
I spoke to John Kaag about his memoir, American Philosophy, shortly after the 2016 presidential election, so although we did spend a fair amount of time talking about his personal story, and how a...
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Life Stories #89: Jamie Brickhouse
I’ve known Jamie Brickhouse for a long time; in his former life as a book publicist, he was someone to whom I’d frequently reach out when I wanted to talk to… well, people like him in his current life...
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