web02.fireside.fm Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:40:56 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Story Behind the Story - Episodes Tagged with “Memoirs” https://story.fireside.fm/tags/memoirs Fri, 07 Feb 2020 18:00:00 -0800 Host Clara Sherley-Appel interviews authors about their creative process, from the inspiration behind the books they write to specific choices they make. en-us episodic Stories about stories and how they came to be Clara Sherley-Appel Host Clara Sherley-Appel interviews authors about their creative process, from the inspiration behind the books they write to specific choices they make. no books, book show, author interviews, interviews, stories Clara Sherley-Appel clara@ksqd.org Episode 12: Carmen Maria Machado - IN THE DREAM HOUSE https://story.fireside.fm/12 472ab7f6-c35f-4b9f-bee5-66d3b8d2ab02 Fri, 07 Feb 2020 18:00:00 -0800 Clara Sherley-Appel full Clara Sherley-Appel I talk to author Carmen Maria Machado about her 2019 memoir, IN THE DREAM HOUSE. 1:00:18 yes CARMEN MARIA MACHADO is the author of the sparklingly surreal short story collection Her Body and Other Parties, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and a winner of the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize. Her memoir, In the Dream House, was named “Best Book of the Year” in 2019 by just about every major media outlet, including The New Yorker, TIME Magazine, The New York Times, NPR, Entertainment Weekly, The Atlantic, The Paris Review, and Vogue. It is a bold, captivating account of the violence and abuse Machado endured in her first relationship with another woman, told in her inimitable voice. This episode was recorded at Kepler's Books in Menlo Park, as part of an event hosted by Kepler's Literary Foundation and produced by Amber Clark. <hr> As a content note, our discussion includes descriptions of psychological abuse and intimate partner violence. Resources for queer survivors of domestic violence are available here (https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/4/499bf883-a80e-4bc2-8e36-b66e2a455ef6/zcjmEVl6.png). Special Guest: Carmen Maria Machado. carmen maria machado, authors, non-fiction, interviews, abuse CARMEN MARIA MACHADO is the author of the sparklingly surreal short story collection Her Body and Other Parties, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and a winner of the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize. Her memoir, In the Dream House, was named “Best Book of the Year” in 2019 by just about every major media outlet, including The New Yorker, TIME Magazine, The New York Times, NPR, Entertainment Weekly, The Atlantic, The Paris Review, and Vogue. It is a bold, captivating account of the violence and abuse Machado endured in her first relationship with another woman, told in her inimitable voice.

This episode was recorded at Kepler's Books in Menlo Park, as part of an event hosted by Kepler's Literary Foundation and produced by Amber Clark.


As a content note, our discussion includes descriptions of psychological abuse and intimate partner violence. Resources for queer survivors of domestic violence are available here.

Special Guest: Carmen Maria Machado.

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This episode was recorded at Kepler's Books in Menlo Park, as part of an event hosted by Kepler's Literary Foundation and produced by Amber Clark.


As a content note, our discussion includes descriptions of psychological abuse and intimate partner violence. Resources for queer survivors of domestic violence are available here.

Special Guest: Carmen Maria Machado.

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