Podcast appearances and mentions of Meredith Maran

As the thrid Replay episode of Summer 2024, here's episode 86 with best-selling author, book critic and journalist, Meredith Maran, who shares a deeply inspiring story about how, after a lifetime of aversions and conflict, she and her mom Rita became friends when Meredith was 69 and Rita 93. This story is a great reminder of how a crisis (in this case COVID) forces us to re-evaluate things and focus on what really matteres in life. We learn so much from these exceptional ladies: not to give up before a miracle; that no one is just good or evil (not even our mothers); that anger is like drinking poison; and that people do change – even at 93. Or 69. To learn more about Meredith, visit her website.  Subscribe to Ana's new "Mama Loves…” newsletter here.  To contact Ana, to be a guest, or suggest a guest, please send your mail to: info@thankyoumama.net To learn more about "Thank You, mama" creative writing workshop, visit here. For more about “Thank You, Mama", please visit: http://www.thankyoumama.net Connect with Ana on social media: https://www.instagram.com/anatajder/ https://www.facebook.com/ana.tajder

How on earth did I become interested in this topic? That's what this episode is about. Interview with Meredith Maran, conducted 5/23/2023 You can request a copy of her memoir, My Lie, A True Story of False Memory on her website https://meredithmaran.com/ You can hear an interview she conducted about this book here. Dead Can Dance https://www.deadcandance.com/ The charm of prostitution: Risky Business https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1017641-risky_business ‘Alternative' in the 1990s was about more than music. https://aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/Alternative Obsession commercials. Are you obsessed? I still am. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1985/03/14/ah-the-obsession-with-it-all/ebd515cd-0c94-451a-a55d-0402448ad81a/ More Calvin Klein and the zeitgeist. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/14/style/ck-one-fragrance-cologne.html Heather Locklear and viral social concepts https://www.retroist.com/p/and-they-told-two-friends-how-faberge-organics-shampoo-explained-virality Any and all background music from the free YouTube Audio Library The Memory Hole Podcast theme is: A Great Darkness Approaches, Can You Feel It? by  ELPHNT  

Best-selling author, book critic and journalist, Meredith Maran, shares a deeply inspiring story about how, after a lifetime of aversions, she and her mom Rita became friends when Meredith was 69 and Rita 93. We learn so much from these exceptional ladies: not to give up before a miracle, that no one is just good or evil (not even our mothers), that anger is like drinking poison, and that people do change – even at 69. Or 93. To learn more about Meredith, and to read the article she wrote "O Magazine" about her and Rita becoming friends late in life, please go here.  To contact Ana, please send your mail to: info@thankyoumama.net For more about “Thank You, Mama" and to subscribe to the newsletter, please visit: http://www.thankyoumama.net

In response to reading Austin Kleon's book "Keep Going - 10 ways to stay creative in good times and bad", I thought I would share some of my tips and lessons about the creative process. Enjoy my babes! For questions or comments you can contact me at thenaomiloud@gmail.com Books mentionned: The War of Art by Steven Pressfield - Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert - The Art of Slow Writing & Writing as a Way of Healing by Louise DeSalvo - On Writing Well by William Zinesser - Negotiating with the Dead by Margaret Atwood - Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott - A Poetry Handbook by Mary Oliver - The Art of Memoir by Mary Karr - On Writing by Stephen King - Why We Write About Ourselves by Meredith Maran

Four writers and a renowned book editor discuss the role of books and those who write them in such desperate times as these. Is it worth writing books? If so, what kinds of books? If not, what shall we writers do with ourselves for the duration? Panelists include: Melissa Chadburn, Dan Smentanka, Cindy Chupack, Natashia Deon, moderated by Meredith Maran.

Like a lot of women her age, Meredith Maran has a hard time believing she’s a woman of her age. And yet she’s published more than a dozen books, including The New Old Me, Why We Write About Ourselves, Why We Write, My Lie, and A Theory of Small Earthquakes. She writes for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, The Los … Continue reading Episode 54: How To Reinvent Your Life At 60, with Meredith Maran →

Do you feel like you’re back at square one when you thought you’d be living out your golden years with ease? Did your life take a tumble or two and you’re upside down, you think? When we face the unexpected and the unthinkable we have a decision to make. Are we going to let it bury us or will we rise above it? Those are all easy concepts to understand if you’re not the one seeing your life from a dark and scary place. If you’re in that place you never imagined or wanted yourself to be join Cheryl & her guest Meredith Maran, author of The New Old Me, in a continuing conversation about navigating the rough waters of starting over later in life

When your world turns upside down how to you gain your ground and start over again at a time when you thought you’d be settled, retiring and worry free? How do you come to grips with life changing events that make you want to run for cover and keep running away from the nightmare you never had until you were living it? Today’s guest, Meredith Maran, found herself uprooted from her home and living on friends couches when her marriage broke apart and she needed to support herself. Returning to a traditional job at the age of 60 where youth prevailed she came face to face with a culture that considered her irrelevant. It seems like our challenges come in waves and we don’t have time to adjust to one when we’re knocked down yet again. If you’re looking for inspiration to get back up and again and discover that there’s more to your life than the fall you’re not going to want to miss this show!

Martha's guests this week are Meredith Maran, Kayla Cagan, and Mark Lukach.

After the death of her best friend, the loss of her life’s savings, and the collapse of her once-happy marriage, Meredith Maran—whom Anne Lamott calls “insightful, funny, and human”—leaves her San Francisco freelance writer’s life for a 9-to-5 job in Los Angeles. Determined to rebuild not only her savings but herself while relishing the joys of life in La-La land, Maran writes “a poignant story, a funny story, a moving story, and above all an American story of what it means to be a woman of a certain age in our time” (Christina Baker Kline, number-one New York Times–bestselling author of Orphan Train).

Every Kind of Wanting (Counterpoint) Every Kind of Wanting explores the complex intersection of three unique families and their bustling efforts to have a "Community Baby." Miguel could not be more different from his partner Chad, a happy-go-lucky real estate mogul from Chicago's wealthy North Shore. When Chad's sister, Gretchen offers the couple an egg, their search for a surrogate leads them to Miguel's old friend Emily, happily married to an eccentric Irish playwright, Nick, with whom she is raising two boys. Into this web falls Miguel's sister Lina, a former addict and stripper, who begins a passionate affair with Nick while deciphering the mysteries of her past.  But every action these couples make has unforeseen consequences. As Lina faces her long-hidden demons, and the fragile friendships between Miguel and Chad and Nick and Emily begin to fray as the baby's birth draws near, a shocking turn of eventsand the secret Lina's been hiding threaten to break them apart forever.  By turns funny, dark and sexy, Every Kind of Wanting strips bare the layers of the American family today. Tackling issues such as assimilation, the legacy of secrets, the morality of desire, and ultimately who "owns" love, the characters across all ethnicities, nationalities, and sexualities are blisteringly alive. Praise for Every Kind of Wanting "Who really owns a baby or another person's heart? Is it the community of people who love and want a child? The woman whose eggs are responsible? Or the surrogate who carries the fetus? Frangello's scorching, funny, and deeply moving novel is a brilliant fusion of deep secrets, stunning lies, the murky past and the uncertain future, all couched around the very human cost of desire. So fearless and ambitious, the pages practically ignite."--Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author of Is This Tomorrow and Pictures of You  "Desire is at the heart of Frangello's work, and whether we can survive it is central to this raw, wonderful, and unmistakably contemporary novel. This is the future that our conservative forebears were scared of, in all its messy, hopeful glory."--J. Ryan Stradal, New York Times bestselling author of Kitchen of the Great Midwest Gina Frangello is the author of the Target Emerging Authors selection A Life in Men, which was a book club selection for NYLON magazine, The Rumpus, and The Nervous Breakdown. She is also the author of two other books of fiction: Slut Lullabies, a Foreword Magazine Best Book of the Year finalist, and My Sister’s Continent. She is the founder of Other Voices Books, has served as the Sunday editor for The Rumpus, the fiction editor for The Nervous Breakdown, executive editor for Other Voices magazine, and the faculty editor for TriQuarterly Online. She can be found at www.ginafrangello.com. Photo by Blair Holmes The author of a dozen nonfiction books and an acclaimed novel, Meredith Maran is a member of the National Book Critics Circle and the MacDowell Fellows West. She writes features, essays, and book reviews for People, Salon, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Real Simple, Mother Jones, Good Housekeeping, and other publications. She lives in Silver Lake, Los Angeles.

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 Others) in the Name of Literature is edited by Meredith Maran and includes pieces by Darin Strauss, Cheryl Strayed, Anne Lamott and more. These essays are brief, interesting glimpses behind the curtain; a chance to see how some writers approach their material. And, perhaps not surprisingly, the process and philosophy varies greatly from writer to writer. [No, it’s not your speakers, please excuse the horrible sound quality from Rider’s microphone] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I loved chatting with Meredith about one of my favorite lit topics -memoir!So many of my favorites are included in this fabulous collection. To enter to win a copy please comment below - whose memoir would YOU like to read?US Residents only. Winners will be selected 2/10. Good luck!

In this honest conversation with Meredith Maran, prolific memoirist, book reviewer, novelist and editor of the newly released Why We Write About Ourselves, we dive into the risks of writing a memoir whose story you are still living.

Martha Frankel’s guests this week are Justin Peters, Alison Gaylin and Meredith Maran.

  Hi there Word Nerds! Thanks for joining me for today’s episode of DIY MFA Radio. Today I’m talking to Meredith Maran about her latest book: Why We Write About Ourselves. Following up on her previous collection: Why We Write, Meredith's most recent book is a collection of essays from memoirists, talking about why they write memoir in the first place. The lineup of authors featured in this book is a veritable who’s who of the memoir world, and the insights they share are no less awesome. Today I’m delighted to speak with Meredith and hear her take about writers love to write (and read) memoirs. In this episode Meredith and I discuss: Writing memoir and embellishing the truth How our perspective changes over the course of our lives, but our writing stays constant Pros and cons of being truly authentic in your writing The writer’s responsibility to protect the innocent (or the guilty) in their writing Plus, Meredith #1 tip for writers. About Meredith Maran: Meredith Maran is  a passionate reader and writer of memoirs, and the author of thirteen nonfiction books and the acclaimed 2012 novel, A Theory Of Small Earthquakes. Meredith writes book reviews, essays, and features for newspapers and magazines including People, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, Salon.com, and More. A member of the National Book Critics Circle, Meredith lives in a restored historic bungalow in Los Angeles. Her next memoir, about starting over in Los Angeles, will be out from Blue Rider Press in 2017. To learn more about Meredith and her work, follow her on Facebook and Twitter or visit her website. Why We Write About Ourselves: Twenty Memoirists on Why They Expose Themselves (and Others) in the Name of Literature is the follow-up to editor Meredith Maran’s last collection, Why We Write, this new book tackles one of the most popular literary genres: memoir. Meredith's new book features some of its most-read authors, including Cheryl Strayed, Anne Lamott, Nick Flynn, Sue Monk Kidd, and James McBride. Contributors candidly disclose the origins of their memoirs: a traumatic experience, like Darin Strauss or Ishmael Beah; family relationships, like Sue Monk Kidd, Edwidge Danticat, or Pat Conroy; or simply a knack for personal storytelling, like Sandra Tsing Loh or Anne Lamott. For more info and show notes: DIYMFA.com/081

Meredith Maran & Crystal-Lee Quibell discuss why we write about ourselves, as well as the risks and rewards of memoir. Meredith Maran is the author of a dozen nonfiction books and an acclaimed novel, Meredith is a member of the National Book Critics Circle and the MacDowell Fellows West. She writes features, essays, and book reviews for People, Salon, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Real Simple, Mother Jones, Good Housekeeping, and other publications. Her latest book is a collection of essays - Why We Write About Ourselves: Twenty Memoirists on Why They Expose Themselves (and Others) in the Name of Literature.  Crystal-Lee Quibell is the host of Literary Speaking, a weekly podcast dedicated to helping writers learn from best-selling authors, literary agents, and publishers. Founder of The Magical Writers Group, a private teaching forum for writers specifically focused on memoir. She is a champion for the written word, student of publishing and an obsessive book collector with a serious case of wanderlust. A self-described mermaid and witchy woman for life, she believes that life is better with books, chocolate, and the occasional cheese board. Her upcoming essay is to be featured in the forthcoming book, The Magic Of Memoir: Inspiration for the Writer's Journey. 

Martha Frankel’s guests this week are Sabaa Tahir, Joann Chang, Meredith Maran and Brenda Bowen.  

Our guest this week on The Stamie and Tracy show is a friend sand a past client for Stamie. She's a real interesting woman with many talents. Meredith Maran (www.meredithmaran.com), a book critic for People Magazine and a bunch of other magazines and newspapers, has published eleven nonfiction book and a 2012 novel starring a bisexual queen of denial, A Theory Of Small Earthquakes. Her latest nonfiction book, Why We Write, is out from Plume, which will publish the sequel in 2015. She's on Twitter at @meredithmaran. Be sure to rate and comment on iTunes. Also, you can find the show on Stitcher.

We explore the concept of false memory, particularly in the context of sexual abuse allegations, and discuss how, less than half a century ago, sexual abuse and incest were taboo topics, with experts believing they were rare. This perception was shattered in the late 1980s when research indicated that sexual abuse was widespread, with one in three women being victimized, often by family members. This revelation led many women to come forward, sometimes with newly recalled memories of abuse. However, over time, some of these memories have been questioned as possibly being false. Meredith Maran, author of the memoir “My Lie: A True Story of False Memory,” discusses how the intense focus on recovering buried memories during the 1980s and 1990s led to what some call the “memory wars.” She explains that false memory is a term coined by parents accused of abuse, not a medical term. Maran emphasizes the unreliability of memory, particularly under suggestion, and reflects on how some accusations may have been based on false memories. Dr. Francine Shapiro, Senior Research Fellow at the Mental Research Institute in Palo Alto, California, and developer of EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), also contributes to the discussion. Shapiro describes how EMDR helps patients access and process memories without judgment and stresses the importance of corroborating recovered memories due to their fallibility. We also explore the difficulties survivors face in distinguishing true memories from false ones and the broader implications of false memories in historical contexts, such as the Salem witch trials and recent political events. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices