Dead Parents Society

A Arts podcast by Zach Carduner

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Dead Parents Society is a series from the Kelly Writers House about writing about the loss of a parent, hosted by University of Pennsylvania creative writing instructor Jamie-Lee Josselyn. We are particularly interested in emerging writers who experienced their loss at a young age and whose writing and world view have been shaped, at least in part, by this. Our goal is to have frank, open conversation on a topic that many of us learned to be quiet or guarded about.

Recent Episodes

Episode 1: Emily Harnett on "When Art Cannot Console Us in Death"
Published: April 16, 2018
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Episode 2: Recorded live from Kelly Writers House
Published: April 30, 2018
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Episode 3: Gabriel Ojeda-Sague on Where Everything Is In Halves
Published: May 14, 2018
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Episode 4: Kristen Martin on "Don't Cover Your Eyes"
Published: May 31, 2018
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Episode 5: Jamie-Lee Josselyn and Kristen Martin on Hope Edelman's "Motherless Daughters"
Published: June 12, 2018
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Episode 6: Scott Gould and Jamie-Lee Josselyn on the pedagogy of writing about difficult experience
Published: June 25, 2018
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Episode 7: Victoria Ford on "Elegy for Clitoris"
Published: July 10, 2018
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Episode 8: Catherine Ricketts on "Eloquent Limbs" and "Books to be Buried In"
Published: July 26, 2018
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Episode 9: Jess Bergman on "The Difficult Business of Dying"
Published: August 15, 2018
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Episode 10: Jamie-Lee Josselyn on "When News of a Suicide Comes During Memoir Class"
Published: September 4, 2018
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