Anne Pinkerton joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about processing the loss of her older brother David, how brothers and sisters get short shrift when it comes to grief in our culture, her Writing Through Loss workshops, disenfranchised grief, when family members are private people, owning our story, taking breaks, giving ourselves grace, and learning how to take care of ourselves when writing about grief, treating our characters with love and care, when family doesn’t read our memoirs, feeling protective of our own experience, and her memoir Were You Close? A Sister's Quest to Know the Brother She Lost.
Also in this episode:
-bereavement writing group
-how grief messes with our executive function
-providing consolation for other grieving siblings
Books mentioned in this episode:
The Empty Room by Elizabeth Davida Rayburn
Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
Into Thin Air by John Krakauer
History of a Suicide by Jill
Invisible Sisters Jessica Handler
100 Tricks Any Boy Can Do by Kim Stafford
Anne Pinkerton is the author of Were You Close? a sister's quest to know the brother she lost (Vine Leaves Press, 2023). Her essays and poems have appeared in the Boston Globe, Hippocampus Magazine, Modern Loss, “Beautiful Things” at River Teeth Journal, and Sunlight Press, among other publications, as well as the anthologies The Pandemic Midlife Crisis: Gen X Women on the Brink and Nothing Divine Dies: A Poetry Anthology About Nature. She holds an MFA in creative nonfiction from Bay Path University and pays the bills as a marketing communications professional.
Connect with Anne:
Website: https://annepinkertonwriter.com/
Were You Close? https://annepinkertonwriter.com/the-book/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AnnePinkertonWriter
Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/annepinkertonwriter
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@annepinkertonwriter
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Ronit’s writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The Rumpus, The New York Times, The Iowa Review, Hippocampus, The Washington Post, Writer’s Digest, American Literary Review, and elsewhere. Her memoir WHEN SHE COMES BACK about the loss of her mother to the guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and their eventual reconciliation was named Finalist in the 2021 Housatonic Awards Awards, the 2021 Indie Excellence Awards, and was a 2021 Book Riot Best True Crime Book. Her short story collection HOME IS A MADE-UP PLACE won Hidden River Arts’ 2020 Eludia Award and the 2023 Page Turner Awards for Short Stories. She earned an MFA in Nonfiction Writing at Pacific University, is Creative Nonfiction Editor at The Citron Review, and lives in Seattle with her family where she teaches memoir workshops and is working on her next book.
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- Опубликовано7 ноября 2024 г., 09:00 UTC
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