This week I talk to author, screenwriter, essayist, and producer Emily Ziff Griffin about her latest project, her recent New Yorker essay, and her 2017 novel, all of which have something to do with her father's death from AIDS when she was fourteen. I have written extensively about losing my mother at that age but I don't know too many writers who have chosen to write about this deeply complex subject from personal experience. So it was pure pleasure to delve into that experience with Emily, someone who has written about the positive outcomes and other strengths that the experience of losing her father gave her. We discuss how hard it is to get comfortable talking about grief and how writing about it got Emily to the point of owning the experience in new ways. We also talk about the ways kids can seem fine when they're not, and how that experience informs her parenting.

To learn more visit Emily's website https://emilyziffgriffin.com/

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Intro and outro music by Josephine Wiggs from her Album "We Fall."

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