Nancy Rappaport talks about her haunting memoir, IN HER WAKE: A Child Psychiatrist Explores the Mystery of Her Mother’s Suicide. It’s about her mother’s suicide, how it affected her family, and how she came to terms with her loss. And Joan Wickersham tells us about her memoir of her father’s suicide, THE SUICIDE INDEX, in this 2008 interview she gave Writers Voice. The memoir was a National Book Award finalist.
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Best of 2008
January 5th, 2009
It was tough, but we did it: we winnowed down the list of wonderful guests and their books to the Ten Best Books featured on Writer’s Voice in 2008. This week’s show features excerpts from our interviews with four of them. In the fiction category, we talk with Kevin Patterson (CONSUMPTION) and Elizabeth Strout (OLIVE [...]
Joan Wickersham, THE SUICIDE INDEX and Jennet Conant, THE IRREGULARS
November 17th, 2008
Host Francesca Rheannon talks with writer Joan Wickersham about her powerful new memoir, . Also, we talk with Jennet Conant about .
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