Podcast appearances and mentions of merritt tierce

If the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade in the coming weeks, tens of millions of women will find themselves living in states where abortion is outlawed in almost all cases. And for some women, that will mean having children — without actually wanting them — because they are left with no choice.That's where Merritt Tierce, a writer, was 23 years ago. At 19, she was not planning to become a mother when she found herself pregnant. “I realized instantaneously when I saw the two pink lines appear telling me that I was pregnant, there was no way to go back to before that moment,” she said. “I was going to have to make a choice that was going to be impossible.” This is the story of the abortion Merritt Tierce didn't have.Mentions and further reading:Merritt wrote about her experience for The New York Times Magazine.The collection of poems she mentions in the episode is called “Cries of the Spirit.”(A full transcript of the episode will be available midday on the Times website.)

After blowback over his comment that a “minor incursion” Vladimir Putin in Ukraine could provoke a different response from the US, President Biden reiterated that Russia would pay a “heavy price” if any units cross the Baltic state's border. Senator Chris Murphy, who just returned from Ukraine, joins the show from Capitol Hill … Oscar-winning actor Penelope Cruz on her new film Parallel Mothers … Michel Martin interviews Merritt Tierce, author of “The Abortion I Didn't Have.” To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy

Topics Discussed:Update on University of Pittsburgh's Human Fetal Organ Harvesting ProjectPro-Choice side's obsession with abortion on tv and in moviesHow abortion story lines in tv and film are meant to change perceptions on abortion, the abortion industry, and men's role in unplanned pregnancyThe role of stigma in the battle over abortionThe article in Marie Claire calling for “more parents” having abortions in tv and moviesWhat the medical community really thinks about the abortion industryThe impact of abortion on siblings  Links Mentioned:Subscribe to The Pro-Life VoicePrimetime Propaganda - The Pro-Life VoiceTV Shows Are Talking About Abortion More Than Ever — But They're Still Getting Some Things Wrong  - MTV NewsWe Need to See More Parents Having Abortions in Film and Television - Marie ClaireFormer President Exposes Planned Parenthood, Says It's Obsessed With Killing Babies in Abortions - Life NewsLife Dynamics Report: Under The Radar Violence In The Conflict Over AbortionANSIRH's Research on Abortion in TV & MoviesPro-Life America Podcast Episode 67: Planned Parenthood is Anti-WomanRate & Review Our Podcast Have a topic you want to see discussed on the show? [Submit it here.]To learn more about what Life Dynamics does, visit: https://lifedynamics.com/about-us/Support Our Work Be Sure To Follow Life Dynamics:Our WebsiteFacebookTwitterInstagramYouTube  

One autumn afternoon in Mexico City, seventeen-year-old Luisa does not return home from school. Instead, she boards a bus to the Pacific coast with Tomás, a boy she barely knows. He seems to represent everything her life is lacking--recklessness, impulse, independence. Tomás may also help Luisa fulfill an unusual obsession: she wants to track down a traveling troupe of Ukrainian dwarfs. According to newspaper reports, the dwarfs recently escaped a Soviet circus touring Mexico. The imagined fates of these performers fill Luisa's surreal dreams as she settles in a beach community in Oaxaca. Surrounded by hippies, nudists, beachcombers, and eccentric storytellers, Luisa searches for someone, anyone, who will "promise, no matter what, to remain a mystery." It is a quest more easily envisioned than accomplished. As she wanders the shoreline and visits the local bar, Luisa begins to disappear dangerously into the lives of strangers on Zipolite, the "Beach of the Dead." Meanwhile, her father has set out to find his missing daughter. A mesmeric portrait of transgression and disenchantment unfolds. Chloe Aridjis's Sea Monsters is a brilliantly playful and supple novel about the moments and mysteries that shape us. Aridjis is joined by Merritt Tierce, author of Love Me Back and writer for Netflix's Orange is the New Black.

Merritt Tierce is the author of the novel Love Me Back.  Merritt currently writes for the Netflix show Orange is the New Black. She lives in Los Angeles.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Merritt Tierce reads at the University of Louisville's Fall Axton Series on October 20, 2016.

Is it all doom and gloom for publishing? Is there a secret room somewhere with the salvation of books? Should authors wish for salaries instead of royalties? What is the secret of Barry’s unpublished novel and its connection to Lin-Manuel Miranda? Plus: Morgan is writing again! Links: A Rough Six Months for Big Book Publishers Daniel Nayeri on Publishing Workman Publishing The origin of Knopf/Publishing as a gentleman’s industry Merritt Tierce on Publishing 'Love Me Back' - How Much Money Authors Make Love Me Back by Merritt Tierce | Amazon | BN.com | iBooks | Indiebound Hamilton Lin-Manuel Miranda Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow | Amazon | BN.com | iBooks | Indiebound Alexander Hamilton: A Biography by Forrest McDonald | Amazon | BN.com | Indiebound Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert | Amazon | BN.com | iBooks | Indiebound State of Wonder by Ann Patchett | Amazon | BN.com | iBooks | Indiebound Rate us on iTunes

Award-winning Texas writer Merritt Tierce talks bout her new profile FD magazine of transgender synthesizer artist Liz Larsen. Next, we talk about Ochre House Theater's new play, 'The Egg Salesman,' and consider the anomaly of the small theater company in Dallas. Finally, graphic designer and artist Rob Wilson is here to talk about his work on the hit podcast, 'Welcome to Night Vale,' and the new movie, 'Dirty Weekend.' He also reveals three final logos he designed for the Mixed Media podcast and the hosts pick their favorite on the show.

Merritt Tierce was born and raised in Texas. She worked in various secretarial and retail positions until 2009, when she moved to Iowa City to attend the Iowa Writers’ Workshop as the Meta Rosenberg Fellow. After graduating in 2011 with her MFA from Iowa, she received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, and she is a 2013 National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Author. Merritt’s first published story, Suck It, was selected by ZZ Packer to be anthologized in the 2008 edition of New Stories from the South, and her first book, Love Me Back, was published by Doubleday in 2014, to wide acclaim. Merritt lives near Dallas with her husband and children. www.merritttierce.com More about First Draft at aspenpublicradio.org/programs/first-draft

The intense and soulful Luke B. Goebel talks about his debut novel Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours with Tobias Carroll of Vol. 1 Brooklyn. Also, Bryan Stevenson on justice and redemption and Merritt Teague on sex, drugs, and the soup du jour. Find all the books described in this episode at Greenlightbookstore.com/radio11

Merritt Tierce is the guest. Her debut novel Love Me Back is now available from Doubleday. The Oxford American says “What’s so compelling about this compulsively readable yet highly literary novel is not the 'unflinching' depiction of Marie’s behavior—though it’s crafted so carefully that readers want to consume each detail—but instead the beautifully plain and unsentimental access Tierce gives us to her protagonist’s interior…How rare it is to find a writer who can encapsulate a character’s sweeping motivation in a page or paragraph or single sentence…Tierce’s magnetic portrayal of a woman whose behavior is conventionally allowed only of men announces Tierce as a writer we’ve been waiting for for much too long." And Carrie Brownstein says “Tierce's prose possesses the force, bluntness and surprise of a sucker punch. Love Me Back is an unflinching and galvanic novel full of heart and heartache; one of my favorite books of the last few years.” Monologue topics:  the darkness of the past week, literary media, Ed Champion, Stephen Tully Dierks, Tao Lin, Emily Gould, Porochista Khakpour, Twitter, ambivalence, flailing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There are 2.4 million waiters and waitresses now working in America. Why have our narratives failed to confront the realities of working in a restaurant? Merritt Pierce, author of LOVE ME BACK, joins us to discuss working-class narratives, the male gaze, abortion, and women as second-class citizens. This show also includes a strong critique of 2 BROKE GIRLS and one of the most startling on-air gaffes in Bat Segundo's history.