Listen "Memoir, Food, and Foundations: Juan Carlos Hernández"
Episode Synopsis
We explore with writer and journalist Juan Carlos Hernández the nature of memoir, the connections made over cooking, and the importance of staying grounded. Episode artwork: Footballer André Roosenburg in Florence, 1953. Image with no known copyright restrictions courtesy Nationaal Archief and Wikimedia Commons. Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay Want to learn more about the books—and films!—we talked about on this episode? Check out the list below. You can also find us on LibraryThing, Goodreads, and Mastodon—and show your support at Liberapay! Anthony Bourdain Kitchen Confidential Anna Burns Milkman Mary Karr The Liars' Club Mary Karr The Art of Memoir Rachel Cusk The Outline Trilogy Lisa Dordal Next Time You Come Home Xuan Carlos Hernández Lost and Found on the Camino de Santiago Norton Juster The Phantom Tollbooth Stephen King On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft Karl Ove Knausgaard My Struggle series Mario Levrero The Luminous Novel Valeria Luiselli Lost Children Archive Alejandra Márquez Abella A Million Miles Away Rigoberta Menchú I, Rigoberta Menchú: An Indian Woman in Guatemala Tim O'Brien The Things They Carried Tim O'Brien In the Lake of the Woods Jordan B. Peterson Twelve Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos Thomas Piketty Capital in the Twenty-First Century Sally Rooney Beautiful World, Where Are You Maurice Sendak Where the Wild Things Are Michelle Zahner Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
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