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This week’s episode covers the importance of investigation and research in works of family and personal history and memoir. Guest Gretchen Cherington shares the many ways she researched her latest family memoir, The Butcher, the Trickster, and the Fallen Guy, through first-person accounts, interviews, and countless documents and letters. Hers is a book that tries not so much to solve a crime as to understand the powerful men at the center of a scandal, interviewing Reich about men and power, the legacy families leave us, and how writing can help us see different perspectives points as we uncover complex truths.
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Gretchen Cherington is the daughter of Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet Richard Eberhart. She grew up in a home full of literary icons such as Robert Frost, Anne Sexton, James Dickie – a life captured in her award-winning first memoir, Poetic license. For years, Cherrington has made a career out of advising CEOs on how to transform their companies into places where both business and people can thrive. Cherington’s writings appear in The Huffington Post, Lit Hub, Electric Lit, Hippocampus, Quartz, and elsewhere, and she was nominated for a 2012 Pushcart Prize. Her latest book is The Butcher, the Trickster, and the Fallen Guy.