{"id":3385,"date":"2014-04-01T00:13:08","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T04:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/?p=3385"},"modified":"2014-04-01T00:13:08","modified_gmt":"2014-04-01T04:13:08","slug":"life-stories-66-kelly-corrigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2014\/04\/01\/life-stories-66-kelly-corrigan\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Stories #66: Kelly Corrigan"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It’s been a few weeks since I posted a new episode of Life Stories<\/i>, the podcast where I talk to memoir writers about their lives and the art of writing memoir—I’ve been settling into a new job—but I’ve been conducting interviews this whole time, and I’m looking forward to presenting them to you in the weeks ahead. First up: Kelly Corrigan<\/a> talks about Glitter and Glue<\/i><\/a>, in which she recalls a post-college trip to Australia in the early 1990s that compelled her to begin reevaluating the mother she’d just spent her adolescence rebelling against…a process that would continue up to the present day. But as Corrigan explained during our conversation:<\/p>\n

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“I still don’t totally get her, and we still aren’t natural best friends that sit around and just gab all day. I often feel confounded by her. But I don’t care anymore. It doesn’t matter to me anymore. I’m not trying to change her anymore. I don’t want her to be more outgoing, or more spendy, or more liberal, or more like me. I think that the way she is is fine, and she has every right to be that way.” <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Find out what happened in Australia twenty years ago, what prompted Corrigan to write about it now, and how she’s been recreating her mother’s role as the family “glue” with her own children… and more, in this episode of Life Stories<\/i><\/p>\n

Listen to Life Stories<\/i> #66: Kelly Corrigan<\/a> (MP3 file); or download this file by right-clicking (Mac users, option-click). Or subscribe to Life Stories<\/i> in iTunes<\/a>, where you can catch up with earlier episodes and be alerted whenever a new one is released. (And if you are an iTunes subscriber, please consider rating and reviewing the podcast!)<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After graduating from college in the early ’90s, Kelly Corrigan couldn’t wait to get out of her family’s house and make some adventures for herself on the other side of the world. But when her funds ran low in Australia, she ended up taking a job as a nanny to a widower and his children — a situation that forced her to begin thinking about her own mother in a new light. In recent years, she’s had cause to reflect on that experience, and she’s chosen to share what she learned, back then and now, in her new memoir, Glitter and Glue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[272],"tags":[760,759,757,756,132,758,305],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3385"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3385"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3387,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3385\/revisions\/3387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}