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Blake Morrison & Cathy Rentzenbrink: Two Sisters

May 3, 2023

55:33

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Episode notes

Introduction

4min

The Permission of Death

1min

Gill's Gloves

5min

The Intimacy of Tone in Memories

2min

The Alcohol of a Family Affair

2min

The Memoir of a Dysfunctional Family

1min

The Ethics of Writing About Real People

3min

How to Write a Memoir

1min

Kafka's Metamorphosis

2min

10.

The Importance of Men in Writing

2min

11.

The Unhappiness of Jill

2min

12.

Why Am I Drawn to Sad Stories?

1min

13.

The Importance of Accepting Death

3min

14.

How to Deal With a Relationship

5min

15.

The Strangeness of Writing Memoirs

3min

16.

How to Write Memoirs After Someone Dies

2min

17.

The Clarifier of Death

2min

18.

How to Write a Book That Changes Your Thinking

6min

19.

How to Write a Memoir

3min

20.

The Death of a Half-Sister

4min

21.

The Importance of Getting Closer to Your Sister

3min

30 years after he reinvented the family memoir with And When Did You Last See Your Father? poet, critic and novelist Blake Morrison returns to the subject of his family in Two Sisters (The Borough Press) which reflects on the recent deaths of his two sisters as well as on the often fraught relationships of siblings in history and literature. Morrison was in conversation with Cathy Rentzenbrink, author of Everyone is Still Alive (Phoenix).

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