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Podcast: New Books in Literary Studies
Episode: Hannah Pittard, "We Are Too Many: A Memoir [Kind of]" (Henry Holt, 2023)
Description: What happens when you come of age in mid-life? Why is so challenging to figure out your own past? Can you find the permission to be weird? (And can you be happy if you don’t?) Memoirist and English professor Hannah Pittard joins us to explore:
If the personal is ever too personal.
What is a collective memory.
The imperfect way we perceive our own experiences.
Taking risks in writing and in life.
The memoir We Are Too Many.
Today’s book is: We Are Too Many, a memoir about a marriage-ending affair between award...