Memoir: Race and Identity
This session explores how race, or more specifically how being nonwhite in America, has formed the identities and lives of our three memoirists. Sejal...
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Featuring the best audio content from the Boston Book Festival, New England's largest literary event, held annually in October in Boston's historic Copley Square.
Memoir: Extraordinary Beginnings
These three authors were launched from situations and families that were out of the ordinary. Poet, playwright, and memoirist Honor Moore, after havin...
Memoir: Secrets, Lies, and the Mysteries of Youth
Secrets: almost every family has them. The three memoirists in this audio session will talk about the secrets and mysteries that haunt their lives. He...
Memoir: Intellectual Histories
A novelist and essayist, a computer scientist, and a scholar of human development discuss their lives and intellectual development. Claire Messud is t...
What We Talk About When We Talk About Sex
We live at a time when sex is no longer taboo to talk about (or have), when repression is banished, and no one has issues. Or not. Turns out, there ar...
But Enough About Me: Reimagining the Memoir
As the memoir continues its reign, it has also continued to surprise and captivate us, raising provocative questions about truth, memory, and the diff...
Racial Justice And Community Activism In The Age Of Black Lives Matter
Join the conversation about black political and social activism with leading scholars of the subject. Jason Sokol, author of All Eyes Are Upon Us: Rac...