Working: The Vulnerability of Memoir Writing, With Mira Jacob

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🗓️ 21 June 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Host Isaac Butler talks to novelist Mira Jacob about the process of writing her comic book memoir, Good Talk. They discuss what it was like for Mira to switch mediums, how the constraints of that medium helped her tell her story, and why it’s so hard to share personal details with a large audience. After the interview, Isaac and co-host Rumaan Alam talk about how fatherhood has helped them get more work done. Send your questions about creativity and any other feedback to working@slate.com. And if you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on Working. It’s only $35 for the first year, and you can get a free two-week trial. Sign up now to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Jonathan Braylock I'm Dr. Milligan and I'm James the third and we're the
0:08.8	host of Blackman can't jump in Hollywood it's a comedic podcast that reviews
0:12.2	films with leading actors of color and analyze them in the context of race and Hollywood's diversity issues.
0:17.5	Yeah, listen to new episodes on Mondays.
0:20.0	Find us wherever you get your podcast.
0:22.0	I don't care where you get them. I just want you to listen.
0:25.3	Don't threaten the people we need them to listen.
0:27.3	Oh, okay, okay, okay, sorry guys listen. Listen to us.
0:30.4	Yay! Yeah, put on a happy voice.
0:33.0	Really?
0:34.0	What more can I say?
0:35.0	You know what it is.
0:36.0	I mean, can jump. If I'm picturing myself writing a novel and somehow picturing myself as like a small animal running to a field, like anything could happen.
0:53.0	It's like the opposite.
0:55.0	The feeling of writing a memoir to me
0:58.0	was much more like being an enormous animal in a very small cage who is like how do I not crush
1:05.7	everything that matters to me in the moment that I'm trying to say what is
1:10.6	happening.
1:12.4	Welcome back to say what is happening.
1:17.0	Welcome back to Working. I'm your host, Ramon Alam. And I'm your other host, Isaac Butler.
1:20.0	Isaac, this week you spoke to the writer Mira Jacob.
1:23.7	Mira is the author of a novel, The Sleep Walkers Guide to Dancing
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