On this episode of Between the Covers, we'll hear Sarah McColl, author of the new memoir Joy Enough, in conversation with Portland writer Margaret Malone, author of the story collection People Like You.
Sarah was founding editor-in-chief of Yahoo Food and holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. Her essays have appeared in the Paris Review, StoryQuarterly, and McSweeney’s, and she’s been a MacDowell Fellow and Pushcart Prize nominee. Joy Enough, published by Liveright, is Sarah’s first book.
Margaret is a Portland-based writer and teacher, and has published work in The Missouri Review, The Rumpus, Oregon Humanities, Paper Darts, and The Masters Review. Her story collection People Like You, from Atelier26 Books, was a Finalist for the 2016 PEN/Hemingway Award for First Fiction, and Winner of the Balcones Fiction Prize.
In the words of writer Molly Wizenberg, “Joy Enough is a diamond in book form, a beauty forged by the weight of loss and learning. It stunned me with its taut clarity, with the way it probes - quietly, gently, unflinchingly - the parts of life that a lot of us don't like to look at: death, divorce, the pleasures and pitfalls of the body… McColl has a rare talent, and it shines.”
Let’s join Sarah and Margaret, as they talk about Joy Enough, mothers, marriage, and memoirs.
Author photo by Joanna Eldredge Morrissey
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