Carvell Wallace Journeys Through Loss and Reunion in Memoir ‘Another Word for Love’

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🗓️ 15 May 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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In his magazine profiles and podcasts, Oakland writer Carvell Wallace has a gift for examining people and the times we live in with clarity and wisdom. With his new memoir “Another Word for Love,” Wallace extends his compassionate gaze to his own story, tracing a childhood peppered with homelessness and abuse, through to his quest for healing, pleasure and the divine. “It is is not enough to be hurt and to know that you have been hurt,” he writes. “The price of being alive, of being in love, is that you are required to heal.” Guests: Carvell Wallace, author, "Another Word for Love: A Memoir"; 2023 recipient of the American Mosaic Journalism Prize; host, "Closer Than They Appear" and "Finding Fred"; his other book is "The Sixth Man" which he co-authored with Andre Iguodala Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:02.4	From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Alexis Madrigal.
1:13.7	The world needs Carvel Wallace.
1:16.2	The Oakland-based writer has cut a unique path through the writing world with essays that
1:20.5	always seem destined to find the profound.
1:23.5	In his new memoir, Another Word for Love, Wallace probes his own past, his blackness, his
1:28.6	queerness, and his masculinity.
1:31.0	But it's always in relation to this world, engaged with it and with the people who make it
1:35.8	have meaning.
1:36.8	It's a gift to spend the pages of this memoir with Wallace.
1:40.4	There's a wisdom in here that's rare and hard one and necessary. As one friend of Wallace has
1:45.2	joked, it's like bell hooks for boys. He joins us to talk about his life and work after this news.
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