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Memoir Nation

Memoir Nation

De: Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner
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Memoir Nation: Weekly Inspiration for Writers is an extension of the Memoir Nation community hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner, two friends and colleagues who bring a community-minded sensibility to the writing journey. Originally launched as Write-minded in 2018, this is a weekly writing podcast that focuses on memoir and personal writing, as well as industry trends and tips and resources for writers and authors. Memoir Nation features a segment called Book Alley at the end of each episode to talk about recent memoirs that authors have sent Brooke and Grant, or memoirs they've discovered that are thought provoking or have sparked inspiration. Brooke and Grant bring to this weekly podcast their deeply held belief that everyone is a writer, and everyone’s story matters. Discover more about Memoir Nation at memoirnation.com.bc738ec0-6362-11f0-8239-9908347d311c Arte Historia y Crítica Literaria
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  • Myriam Gurba on Packing a Punch with Language

    Myriam Gurba on Packing a Punch with Language
    Sep 1 2025
    This week, Memoir Nation podcast turns 8! And we’re kicking off our new season with guest Myriam Gurba, the brilliant if sometimes controversial critic and cultural writer who’s the author of multiple books, including her memoir, Mean, and the forthcoming Poppy State. This week’s podcast is focused on language—word choice, puns, clever language, reading aloud, being in love with language, and so much more. Myriam is a master of language, and her books are a delight to read because of it. And we’re bringing back the book trend this season, kicking off with a conversation between Brooke and Grant about the trend of authors using AI to enhance their writing, specifically chosen to juxtapose the kind of language we read in Myriam’s work. If you’ve been thinking about how to write better, more creative, more unique prose, we’re circling that and more this week. And welcome to our new season! Myriam Gurba is the author of four books: Dahlia Season, Painting Their Portraits in Winter; Mean, and Creep. Myriam’s writing has been widely anthologized and has appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Harper’s Bazaar, Believer, Paris Review, and elsewhere. She is a teacher, an editor, an anti-rape activist, a public speaker, a practitioner of plant-based magic, and a co-founder of Dignidad Literaria, a grassroots organization that combats white supremacy in the publishing industry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    50 m
  • Carvell Wallace and Victoria Chang on Emotions and Memoir

    Carvell Wallace and Victoria Chang on Emotions and Memoir
    Aug 25 2025
    This week’s Memoir Nation is the last of our summer best-of round-up episodes. We chose to pair Victoria Chang and Carvell Wallace because these were two of our most heartfelt guests who delved deeply and honestly into some of memoir’s deepest emotions: shame; love; anger; happiness; and more. These interviews were a couple that most touched us for Chang and Wallace’s articulation of process, making connections, and staying with the emotions that move you. We hope you enjoy and Memoir Nation will be back next week with a new season and a new episode. We can’t wait! Carvell Wallace is a writer and podcaster who has contributed to The New Yorker, GQ, New York Times Magazine, Pitchfork, MTV News, and Al Jazeera. His debut memoir, Another Word For Love, explores his life, identity, and love through stories of family, friendship, and culture and was a 2024 Kirkus Finalist in Nonfiction. Victoria Chang’s most recent book of poems is With My Back to the World, published in 2024. It received the Forward Prize in Poetry for Best Collection. Some of her other books include The Trees Witness Everything, OBIT, and Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief. She has written several children’s books as well. She has received multiple fellowships and prizes and is the Bourne Chair in Poetry at Georgia Tech and Director of Poetry@Tech. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    48 m
  • Amanda Knox and Lidia Yuknavitch on Reclaiming

    Amanda Knox and Lidia Yuknavitch on Reclaiming
    Aug 18 2025
    In this week’s summer celebration of the best of Write-minded and Memoir Nation, we’re partnering Amanda Knox and Lidia Yuknavitch, both of whom speak compellingly on what it means to reclaim your story. Whether you’ve been victimized in some way, as Knox was; or whether you’re ready to take back a particular story in your life, to cast yourself as the hero or heroine of your own narrative, as Yuknavitch has, these two guests will light the way. They show not just that reclaiming is a choice, but also how to do it in life and on the page. Such inspiring guests and role models for memoirists—and humans—everywhere. Amanda Knox is an author, journalist, and podcast host whose work explores criminal justice, media ethics, and the human experience. She is the author of two memoirs—Waiting to Be Heard and Free: My Search for Meaning—and co-hosts the podcast, Labyrinths. Lidia Yuknavitch is the National Bestselling author of two memoirs, The Chronology of Water and Reading the Waves; four novels: Thrust, The Book of Joan, Dora: A Headcase, and The Small Backs of Children, winner of the 2016 Oregon Book Awards Ken Kesey Award for Fiction; and the critically acclaimed collection of short fiction, Verge.The Misfit's Manifesto, based on her popular 2016 TED Talk, “The Beauty of Being a Misfit,” was published by TED Books. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    54 m

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