Author of hundreds of essays and a dozen books, Robert Boyers, joins Writer’s Voices to discuss his newest book, Maestros and Monsters: Days and Nights with Susan Sontag and George Steiner. Categorized as a memoir, this book is about Boyers’ close friendships with both Sontag and Steiner, both brilliant and intellectual minds, who despised each Read More

In Living and Leaving My Legacy, educator, speaker and author, Merle R. Saferstein, writes a two volume memoir drawn from her vast collection of personal journal writing. The first volume, which was published in June 2022, covers her earlier life and discusses her career, her marriage, and raising children, and the second volume, released in Read More

Sports journalist and former Golf Channel anchor, Lisa Cornwell, visits Writer’s Voices to discuss her riveting memoir in Troublemaker: A Memoir of Sexism, Retaliation, and the Fight They Didn’t See Coming. Co-written by Tucker Booth, her book details the hostile environment she worked in while employed at the Golf Channel, and the discrimination, and subsequent Read More

TV and podcast host, Nancy Regan, shares her candid, debut memoir, From Showing Off to Showing Up: An Imposter’s Journey from Perfect to Present. Part memoir and part self-help, her book delves into her evolution from someone who judged herself too harshly and worried about what others thought of her to letting down her guard, Read More

Veteran journalist and contributing editor for The Daily Beast, Goldie Taylor, visits us to share her powerful debut memoir, The Love You Save. In her book, she chronicles her difficult childhood, having been raised in East St. Louis by a single mother who worked constantly to make ends meet while she and her two older Read More

Former Chicago Sun-Times and Austin American-Statesman music critic and now journalism professor, Don McLeese, joins us to discuss his riveting new memoir, Slippery Steps: Rolling and Tumbling Toward Sobriety. Published by Ice Cube Press, the memoir delves into McLeese’s alcohol dependence, his denial regarding his substance abuse, and how Alcoholics Anonymous eventually helped him down Read More

Author H.H. Leonards and CEO of R.H. Boyd Publishing, Dr. LaDonna Boyd, join us to discuss their memoir, Rosa Parks Beyond the Bus: Life, Lessons, and Leadership. Leonards is the founder of The Mansion on O Street, a place where Rosa Parks sought refuge for the last decade of her life after she was brutally Read More

84-year-old Tova Friedman, one of the youngest survivors of Auschwitz, visits us to discuss her haunting memoir, The Daughter of Auschwitz: My Story of Resilience, Survival and Hope. Co-written by Malcom Brabant, Friedman’s memoir details the vivid memories she had of her survival in a Jewish ghetto, Nazi labor camp, and Auschwitz. With so few Read More

High school senior and author, Polo Altynski Ross, joins us to discuss his first book, a translation of his great grandfather’s memoir titled, The Polish Prince. Before his great grandfather, Zbigniew Janczewski, passed away in 2018, he learned that Ross had a great interest in his memoir. Because of this, he gave Ross his story Read More

Laura Galloway and her memoir – Dalvi – Six years in the Arctic tundra. … “I made a trip to the Arctic and I absolutely loved it…. it was such a profound juxtaposition from the life that I was living in New York,…. ..During my travels to the Arctic … I met a reindeer herder Read More

Dolores Johnson tells us about suffering and joys of her bi-racial family in – Say, I’m Dead, a family memoir of race, secrets and love. “Say I’m dead is a multi generational story of my family; who endured fear, secrets and separation and finally transformation; because they were not bound by the forbidding race mixing Read More

“Rob said to me, ‘Don’t think of what’s best for you, think of what’s best for your readers; because your readers want to learn more about what autism is, what kind of an impact you have on others, and more importantly the educators and the parents of kids who have autism…this is going to impact Read More

Kathy Gereau talks about gathering the stories that went into her memoir – Serious Little Catholics “One of the things people ask me about is; How can you remember all that stuff that happened? When ever (my family ) would get together we would tell stories. Remember when this happened? So it’s kind of something Read More

Writers Voices talks with Jennifer Jordan and Liza Rodman co-authors of -The Babysitter – My summers with a serial killer. A true crime memoir about Liza’s childhood caretaker, serial killer Tony Costa. Liza talks about her writing – ” I wrote my first book when I was ten years old…100 pages. After that I wrote Read More

“I grew up around a lot of music…I fell in love with it right away. I just became obsessed.” Dave Isaacs talks about his life and music in his new book ” The Perpetual Beginner – A musicians path to lifelong learning. “The book is for people who feel like their skills don’t match up Read More

” I wanted to go back and really, really understand my father, and piece the story together.” Ariana Neumann shares the writing of her book – When time stopped – A memoir of my father’s war and what remained. “I think we all have a narrative thread that we sort of weave through our lives…I Read More

“How do you talk about that which is too big to talk about? That moment of awe and wonder.” David Oates shares his wonderment in his memoir – The mountains of Paris – “It’s such a specialized cave we go into, to sort of change our mind for a bigger mind; that is a shared Read More

“I never thought that the power existed in me to be able to forgive myself and to forgive God.” Tom Voss speaks about – Where War Ends, a combat veterans 2,700 mile journey to heal – Recovery from PTSD and Moral injury through meditation. – the memoir he wrote with his sister Rebecca Ann Nguyen. Read More

“Stories are important to understanding a life.” Dan Waters tracks down his own story in his memoir – “These Boys and their Fathers. “I just used everything I knew, to stick it together…(if) you can’t get at something straight on, you have to maybe go at it sideways. With this memoir, I had to go Read More

Born out of an “obsessive immersion” Robert Clark talks about his new memoir – My Victorians. “It was for some reason very important for me to be in the same space as these people. Just as important as reading their books or looking at their art.” Like a “literary stalker. ” I took refuge in Read More

Paula Becker talks about writing her memoir, “For me it involved really trying to grapple with whose story this was; and ultimately I decided it was my story and I had the right to tell it.” Her book – A House on Stilts – Mothering in the Age of Opioid Addiction. “I didn’t feel ashamed Read More

“I really believe that their’s a transformation that can happen when you tell your story.” Keele Burgin comments upon her journey and her memoir – Wholly Unraveled. “Our childhoods don’t have to define us. It’s not easy to walk through the pain, but it”s worth it in the end…It turned the trauma into something more Read More

“It’s really important to have agency and be vulnerable.” Carla Sameth shares insights along with some of her joys and sorrows in her memoir in essays – One day on the gold line. “It’s about the challenges around race and identity and police violence….I kind of wrote the book I wanted to read. I wanted Read More

“It was as if I was betraying my gender by doing something that, you know, a man should be doing.” Author and poet Karen Auvinen talks about her memoir – Rough Beauty – 40 seasons of mountain living. “The memoir is really about my deep relationship with landscape which became a pretty deep relationship with Read More

“I went from a household where I was not enough to a marriage where I was not enough.” Jane Pollak talks about the dissolution of her marriage and the writing of her memoir – Too much of not enough. “What I talk about in the memoir is how I came to value myself so much Read More

“The tough stuff is the stuff you need to write about, ’cause that’s where the conflict is; that’s also where the challenge is, to figure out how to write about it.” Mitchell S. Jackson shares his insights on writing and his own life, talking about his “memoir in essays” – Survival Math. “And then for Read More

“How do you get people to listen to a story tha, I think, we are socialized to ignore?” Sandy Allen talks about her memoir of her uncle’s life – A Kind of Mirraculas Paradise. – A True Story about Schizophrenia. “I really wanted people to be able to hear just what Bob had gone through Read More

“Why didn’t anyone remind me that this was going to be published?” Monica talks with Eva Hagburg Fisher about the making of her book – How To Be Loved – a memoir of a lifesaving friendship. ” When I was writing the book, I really was just in the world of the book. The book Read More

“I think human beings have to deal with a lot of weird things regardless of race/class/gender; and a lot of things that are like terrifying. So as an artist I just want to explore these things.” Kiese Laymon talks to Writers Voices about his new memoir – Heavy, an American memoir. ” My mom just Read More

“This book was the story I had to write before I could write other things.” Writers Voices talks with Allie Rowbottom about her family memoir – Jell-O Girls. “She ( my mother) was especially vulnerable to the really damaging messaging of living in a patriarchy as a woman, especially at that point in history….Jello was Read More

“We are born, somehow with some basic wiring, to understand story.” Tim Wendel on his book – Cancer Crossings. A brother, his doctors and the quest for a cure to childhood leukemia. “If you can put it in a story it makes it much more palpable, it makes it entertaining,…. If I put it out Read More