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Podcast: Indy Audio
Episode: Dec. 23, 2025: A Conversation with Karen Malpede on Her New Memoir: A Journey Through Love, Loss, Activism & Theatre
Description: We spent the hour talking with radical playwright, author and activist Karen Malpede whose new memoir provides a fearless, unsparing account of her life: her many erotic adventures, her long running political activism from the 1960s to the present, the historic figures she befriended (and sometimes slept with), the agony of watching many of those closest to her wither away from cancer and the hard-earned wisdom she has gained across her life’s journey. The title of her memoir is Last Radiance: Radical Lives, Bright Deaths available everywhere books are sold. You can check out a review on indypendent.org.