Lectures tagged "autobiography"

Keeping the Feast: One Couple's Story of Love, Food, and Healing in Italy
Paula Butturini
March 2, 2010
00:59:57
Journalist Paula Butturini talks about her new memoir Keeping the Feast: One Couple's Story of Love, Food, and Healing in Italy. Paula and John met in Italy, fell in love, and four years later, married in Rome. But less than a month after the wedding, tragedy struck.
Mary Karr: Lit, a Memoir
Mary Karr: Lit, a Memoir
Mary Karr
November 6, 2009
00:44:49
Poet and memoirist Mary Karr discusses her most recent memoir, Lit.
The Examined Life: Memoir
Leslie Gilbert-Lurie
October 24, 2009
00:37:41
Alicia Anstead, editor-in-chief of Inside Arts, hosts a panel discussion about how autobiographical writing can help us make sense of a broader world. Leslie Gilbert-Lurie writes about her mother's experience as a child Holocaust survivor in Bending Toward The Sun.
A Child Psychiatrist Explores Her Mother's Suicide
Nancy Rappaport
October 16, 2009
00:52:46
Psychiatrist Nancy Rappaport discusses In Her Wake: A Child Psychiatrist Explores the Mystery of Her Mother's Suicide. In her new book In Her Wake, Nancy Rappaport looks inward to explore her mother's suicide, when Nancy was four years old.
Invisible Sisters: Jews in the 1960s American South
Jessica Handler
September 13, 2009
00:43:13
Local Atlanta writer Jessica Handler shares cultural nuances about her life story, Invisible Sisters, in this talk with many who share her faith.
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Barbara Walters: Audition
Barbara Walters
May 19, 2008
00:50:43
Barbara Walters discusses her new book, Audition, and reveals the forces that shaped her extraordinary life.
Frank McCourt: Act Two
Frank McCourt
January 11, 2006
00:57:26
Frank McCourt discusses his long-awaited book about how his 30-year teaching career shaped his second act as a writer.