The Importance of Memoirs

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The book ends and the life doesn't if we're lucky. So what lives between two covers is a time capsule of your consciousness, your thinking,. Your cognition, your ability to sort of process and metabolize that experience at the time. And three weeks later, you could have some middle of the night sit bolt upright and bed revelation about something or while you're washing your hair, if you're like me, the shower, amen to the shower. It's where I do all my best thinking. We're just like with frosted, everything blurred out in the shower would be such an intimate conversation. It's a portal. Maggie.

For the first time, Glennon requests a one-on-one with our guest – author and poet Maggie Smith – in this deeply honest conversation about: how to tell the brutal truth without betraying our people, how to reclaim ourselves after infidelity and betrayal, how the shaming of women who dare to tell their stories keeps us powerless and isolated, and how they both have embraced acceptance instead of “forgiveness.”

About Maggie:

Maggie Smith is the award-winning author of You Could Make This Place Beautiful, Good Bones, The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison, Lamp of the Body, and the national bestsellers Goldenrod and Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change.

A 2011 recipient of a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, two Academy of American Poets Prizes, a Pushcart Prize, and fellowships from the Sustainable Arts Foundation and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.

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