About This Episode: In this episode of VIDA Voices and Views, produced by R.J. Jeffreys, Melissa Studdard interviews writer and activist, Cheryl Strayed, who reads from her celebrated memoir...
Archive for tag: memoir
Other Writers’ Mothers: Some Reflections on Representing Family
I wish I could get my mother to understand the poetic logic of my storytelling -Ruth Behar That wasn’t nice -Ruth Behar’s mother Not long ago, I...
Against Our Own Best Time: Competition Among Writers in the Margins
In the small town where I grew up, I was strange and lonely. Books were my solution. The page was the easiest place to name...
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