Lee Horikoshi Roripaugh on The Lyric Essay

Podcast: Memoir Nation · Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner

Opublikowano: 2026-10-26

This week’s show is about lyricism! Lyricism in memoir is about using juxtaposition, gaps, and echo. It’s writing that advances by association via imagery and connotation, and language that sings. This is an invitation to step into a different way of thinking about your writing, and anyone can implement elements of lyricism. Guest Lee Horikoshi Roripaugh explains why lyric, hybrid, and mixed genre forms are so appealing and inspiring, especially to writers on the margins and how they speak to something more liminal and more fluid. Don’t miss this articulation of what’s appealing about writing This week...