How does memory become memoir?

In this episode, Dr. Vilma Luz Cabán turns toward memory as it actually arrives—not as a tidy timeline or complete account, but as sensation, interruption, and return. From Memory to Memoir invites writers to sit beside memory rather than interrogate it, and to understand memoir as a practice of attention, not extraction.

Through imagery and reflection, this conversation explores why memoir does not ask us to remember everything, but to notice what persists. It considers the role of choice—where to begin, where to pause, what to name, and what to leave in shadow—as an act of care for the writer, the work, and the truth itself.

This episode is grounded in craft and restraint. It ends at the threshold of authorship, where memory has been shaped with intention, and prepares listeners for the ethical questions that follow once a story begins to take form.

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