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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:30 — 40.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreWe are listening to the beginning of The Privilege of Being Queer, part memoir, part history, written by Doug Bauder. The Privilege of Being Queer, begins in the 1950s and takes us decade by decade to the present, relating the story of Doug Bauder’s personal and professional …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:30 — 40.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreAn honored academician writing on horror and the “avant-garde,” Joan Hawkins returned to creative writing just over a decade ago. Almost all of her writing begins with a memory that nags at her. Once she writes it down she sees the larger story and the re-writing begins. …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:30 — 40.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreWhat I Gave to the Fire breaks the barrier of silence surrounding miscarriage, a common yet rarely talked about experience in the lives of many women. An intimate account of the emotional and spiritual fallout from the author’s second miscarriage, the story weaves a detailed narrative of …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:30 — 40.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreRachel Berenson Perry began writing memoir about a dozen years ago. Memoir is a middle place between factual and fictional-analogous to being able to paint something from imagination versus painting something that you’re looking at. When I’m writing about my own past there are two voices—the person …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:30 — 40.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreToday we are listening to an excerpt from the memoir Holding Hope: One Family’s Odyssey through Lyme Disease and Psychosis written and read by Marabai Rose. Rose has said she struggles to see herself as a writer, but she had a story to tell and when she …