Jeanne Murray Walker and Ambition - Ep 49
This Creative Life
English - December 03, 2015 00:00 - 41 minutes - 18.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsBooks Arts TV & Film Film Interviews youngadult authors books creativity filmmaking literature publishing writing Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Jeanne Murray Walker is a poet, playwright, memoirist, and teacher. Most recently, she co-edited with Luci Shaw a book of essays on the topic of ambition by members of the Chrysostom Society. We talked about her experience as an ambitious young woman in the era of the "mythical character" of Betty Crocker, ambition and motherhood, and the problems of ambition without direction or models of what to do with it. My own relationship with ambition is quite fraught in ways that might warrant a sequel to this, and this conversation gave me a ton to think about--I hope you find it equally thought-provoking!
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