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How to Be Self-Revealing in Memoir When You're Not In Real Life, featuring Dr. Brian H. Williams

How to Be Self-Revealing in Memoir When You're Not In Real Life, featuring Dr. Brian H. Williams

Memoir Nation · Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner

January 22, 202439m 4s

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Show Notes

This week's episode moves beyond inspiring and into the territory of important, essential, and recommended listening—and reading. Guest Dr. Brian H. Williams, author of the debut memoir, The Bodies Keep Coming, joins us to talk about his experience as a trauma surgeon, and what being on the hospital frontlines can teach us about racial inequities in America. On the writing side of things, Brooke and Grant talk about how hard it can be for memoirists to truly open up, especially if you’re not used to sharing your feelings, or if there’s a perception that you don’t want the book to be too much “about you.” Dr. Williams touches upon all this, and shares how, as a self-professed man of few words, he pushed himself to be so self-revealing in his memoir.

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