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Episode: Podcast with Memoir Writer Maura Casey
Description: Saving Ellen: A Conversation with Maura CaseyMaura Casey kept loads of notes in journal books as a youngster—a habit that, it turns out, would serve as a major resource for her unforgettable memoir.Fast-forward to May 19, 2025: on a Zoom call from her writing studio in the loft of a Connecticut barn, Maura held up her homemade archives—journal booklets thick with colorful sticky notes, each tab marking a lived and logged experience.One tab color indicated the times her father was drunk. These weren’t memories softened by time—they wer...