# Elissa Altman

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20th Anniversary celebration with memoirists Elissa Altman, Thomas Page McBee, Ashley C. Ford, Josh Brolin, and Isaac Fitzgerald

In honor of 20 years of Design Matters, Debbie Millman revisits memorable conversations with memoirists Elissa Altman, Thomas Page McBee, Ashley C. Ford, Josh Brolin, and Isaac Fitzgerald. This anniversary collection reflects on the candor, resilience, and storytelling power of five voices who have…

Elissa Altman on Permission

All memoirists at some point in the writing process will grapple with what’s theirs to tell. This week's show focuses on this all-important topic of permission. When do you need it? Who gives it to you and when and for what purpose? And do you need permission at all—from anyone but yourself? Center…

Elissa Altman — Permission: The New Memoirist and the Courage to Create - with Brittany Kerfoot

Without fail, almost every writer--new or experienced--has faced dire questions of permission and story ownership: there is something that they want to write about, that they need to write about. Yet: they can't. They have been warned not to. They might be paralyzed with shame, threatened with shu…

226. Homing in on Why We Need to Tell Our Story featuring Blair Glaser

Blair Glaser joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about her time on a Catskills ashram during her twenties in the 1990s, yearning and the thrilling and perilous idolization of other human beings, spiritual development, group think, revisiting our experiences with curiosity and excitement, nav…

Elissa Altman on the beauty of impermanence

Experiencing everything, everywhere, all at once is where we find our guest Elissa Altman this week, as she chats to Katherine in the midst of a snow cyclone in Connecticut.  An author and speaker whose work touches on issues of family, trauma, and the permission to create, she acknowledges her dee…

The Grace of Loving No Matter What

This episode is all about love, and I am so thankful I got to dig into this topic with these two fantastic human beings and phenomenal writers. Kate’s novel, Book of Grace, is a sweeping, epic love story that cannot be stopped by time, loss, death — or all the different ways women sometimes prevent…

Cellular

I put my glasses in the washing machine and left my AirPod case on the desk and went out for breakfast listening to the last chapter of Permission by Elissa Altman as I walked the few minutes to Electric House. Only the third thing was meant. I suppose as usual I am tired and also being forgetful o…

251. Mining Opening Pages for Impact featuring Deborah K. Shepherd

Deborah Shepherd joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about the large age gap in her first marriage and having mixed feelings about the love story of her youth, the titillation of secrecy and huge risks she took in her personal life, how women were seen, feeling protective of our younger selv…

Motherland: A Memoir of Love, Loathing, and Longing Audiobook by Elissa Altman

https://libranovo.com/free Listen to free audiobooks with a 30-day free trial! Title: Motherland: A Memoir of Love, Loathing, and LongingGenres: Biography & Memoir, Health & Wellness, Marriage & Family, WomenAuthor: Elissa AltmanNarrator: Elissa AltmanRelease date: 08-06-2019Length: 6:35:06Language…

The Literary Obsessive LIVE in conversation with Sam Baker

Thank you Elissa Altman, Sara Santa Clara, Angie Browne, Jeanne Elbe, Sophie Ellen Jones, and many others for tuning into my live video with sam baker! Join me for my next live video in the app. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus ep…