Psychology Memoirs

Lonelyhearts: The Screwball World of Nathanael West and Eileen McKenney

Length- 39 minutes, 26 seconds

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Marion Meade, author of Lonelyhearts: The Screwball World of Nathanael West and Eileen McKenney published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

 

MARION MEADE is the author of Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This? She has also written biographies of Woody Allen, Buster Keaton, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Madame Blavatsky, and Victoria Woodhull, as well as two novels about medieval France. She lives in New York City.  Visit her website.

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Raw Edges: A Memoir

Length-26 minutes, 57 seconds

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Phyllis Barber, author of Raw Edges: A Memoir published by the University of Nevada Press.

 
Phyllis Barber is the award-winning author of seven books, including an earlier memoir, How I Got Cultured: A Nevada Memoir. She teaches in the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA Writing Program and lives in Denver. She was inducted into the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame in 2005.  Visit her website.

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Imperfect Endings: A Daughter's Tale of Life and Death

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Length-25 minutes, 32 seconds

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Zoe FitzGerald Carter, author of Imperfect Endings: A Daughter's Tale of Life and Death published by Simon & Schuster.

 
Zoe FitzGerald Carter is a graduate of Columbia Journalism School and has written for numerous publications including New York magazine, The New York Observer, Premiere, and various national magazines. Imperfect Endings is her first memoir.

Imperfect Endings won first place in the 2008 Pacific Northwest Writer's Association's literary contest and was a finalist at The San Francisco Writer's Conference. Zoe lives in Northern California with her husband and two daughters.  Visit her website.

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The Mystery of Lewis Carroll: Discovering the Whimsical, Thoughtful, and Sometimes Lonely Man Who Created "Alice in Wonderland"

Length- 45 minutes, 36 seconds

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Jenny Woolf, author of The Mystery of Lewis Carroll:  Discovering the Whimsical, Thoughtful, and Sometimes Lonely Man Who Created "Alice in Wonderland" published by St. Martin's Press.

 
Jenny Woolf has written for The Sunday Times Magazine (UK), Readers Digest, and Islands and has reviewed childrens literature for Punch. She is author of Lewis Carroll in His Own Account. She lives in England.  Visit her website.

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A Pocket History of Sex in the Twentieth Century: A Memoir

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Length- 44 minutes, 4 seconds

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Jane Vandenburgh, author of A Pocket History of Sex in the Twentieth Century: A Memoir published by Counterpoint.

 
Jane Vandenburgh is a fifth-generation Californian. She has taught literature and writing at U.C. Davis, at Georgetown and at the George Washington University in Washington, DC, and will be next years Writer-in-Residence at St. Marys in Moraga, California. She will  publish her long-awaited book on the craft of writing the longer narrative called The Architecture of the Novel in January, 2010.

Married and the mother of two children, she is also the author of the novels, Failure to Zigzag and The Physics of Sunset. She lives in Point Richmond, California.  Visit her website.

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Lonely: A Memoir

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Length- 41 minutes, 15 seconds

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Emily White, author of Lonely: A Memoir published by Harper.

 
Emily White is a former lawyer who now works as a writer and policy adviser. She lives in St. John's, Newfoundland.  Visit her website.

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When I Came West

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Length- 1 hour, 18 minutes, 56 seconds

Dr. Kevin Keough, co-host of the Psychjourney podcast, interviews Ms. Laurie Wagner Buyer, author of When I Came West  published by the University of Oklahoma Press.

 
When she is not on the road presenting workshops, poet and novelist Laurie Wagner Buyer divides her time between Woodland Park, Colorado, and Llano, Texas. Laurie has an MFA in Writing from Goddard College and is the author of three collections of poetry, Glass-eyed Paint in the Rain, Red Colt Canyon and Across the High Divide, which won the Western Writers of America Spur Award in Poetry and was named a Willa Cather Literary Award Finalist. Her first novel, Side Canyons, was released by Five Star Publishing in 2004. Laurie received the Beryl Markham Prize for Spring's Edge: A Ranch Wife's Chronicles, a memoir released in 2008 from the University of New Mexico Press, which became a finalist for the Colorado Book Award. Infinite Possibilities: A Haiku Journal has just been released from Filter Press and another memoir When I Came West is forthcoming from the University of Oklahoma Press. A member of The National League of American Pen Women and Women Writing the West, Laurie's freelance articles and photographs have appeared in dozens of periodicals, journals, reviews, and anthologies. She also devotes time to her mentoring and editing business, Creative Adventure: A Guide Service for Writers. Her new e-book Working with Words (including self-editing tips)is now available on her website.

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Street Shadows: A Memoir of Race, Rebellion, and Redemption

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Length- 37 minutes, 2 seconds

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Jerald Walker, author of Street Shadows: A Memoir of Race, Rebellion and Redemption published by Bantam.

 

Jerald Walker received his MFA in Creative Writing from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he was a Teaching/Writing Fellow and James A. Michener Fellow, and he received his PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies from The University of Iowa. 

 His works have appeared in numerous national and international publications, including The Missouri Review, The North American Review, The Barcelona Review, The New Delta Review, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Mother Jones, The Literary Review, The Oxford American, Outsmart and The Iowa Review. His work has been widely anthologized in publications such as Best American Essays (2007&2009) Best African American Essays (2009&2010), America Now, The Writer’s Presence, and Brothers: 26 Stories on Love and Rivalry. His book, Street Shadows: A Memoir of Race, Rebellion and Redemption, will be published in January by Random House (Bantam).

Dr. Walker is the recipient of two of Bridgewater State College’s major awards: the Class of 1950 Most Distinguished Research Award, and the Martha D. Jones Award for Most Outstanding Dedication to Students.   Married and the father of two young sons, he lives in Bridgewater, Massachusetts. Visit his webpage.

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The Aqua Net Diaries: Big Hair, Big Dreams, Small Town

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Length-25 minutes, 13 seconds

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Jennifer Niven, author of The Aqua Net Diaries: Big Hair, Big Dreams, Small Town published by Gallery.

 
Jennifer Niven divides her time between Atlanta (where she was named one of Jezebel Magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People) and Los Angeles (where her film Velva Jean Learns to Drive won an Emmy Award and she once played the part of Shania Twain in a music video). Her first book, The Ice Master, was released in 2000 and named one of the top ten nonfiction books of the year by Entertainment Weekly.  Jennifer's second book, Ada Blackjack, released in 2003, was a Book Sense Top Ten Pick. When she isn't writing, Jennifer studies belly dancing, yoga, and electric guitar; and explores her inner bombshell.  Visit her website.

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Nick Flynn at the Cakeshop in New York City Video

Nick Flynn, bestselling author of "Another Bullshit Night in Suck City", reads five poems and a short excerpt from his new memoir "The Ticking is the Bomb" . This reading was part of the Mixer Reading Series held the third Wednesday of every month at the Cakeshop in New York City. Visit his website.

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