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Length:
44 minutes
Released:
Apr 2, 2019
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This week, Julia, Rider, and Tod discuss Terese Marie Mailhot‘s short and powerful memoir, Heart Berries. In the sledgehammer of a book, Mailhot addresses the traumas she has gone through in her life, from the sexual abuse she endured as a young child to later hospitalization for posttraumatic stress and bipolar disorders and her conflicted relationship as a parent to three children, something that has endured for multiple generations in her family. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Released:
Apr 2, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (46)
Episode 96: Why We Write About Ourselves: For the first time on the Disco, we discuss a book on the craft of writing. We delve into a new collection of essays by some of the world’s great memoirists. Why We Write About Ourselves: Twenty Memoirists on Why They Expose Themselves (and Ot[...] by Literary Disco