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Why Patricia Cornwell Still Believes in Stories
From Shifting Schools: Conversations for K12 Educators · Hosted by Jeff Utecht & Tricia Friedman
Episode summary
In this episode of Shifting Schools: Conversations for K12 Educators: Patricia Cornwell joins Tricia Friedman for a conversation about memory, writing, curiosity, forensic science, and the memoir she never expected to write. Cornwell reflects on the childhood experiences that shaped her imagination, the role of journaling and archival memory in writing memoir, and why finding the opening hook still begins with one question: what am I seeing in my head? The episode closes with a reminder that even as the forms of storytelling change,…
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Patricia Cornwell joins Tricia Friedman for a conversation about memory, writing, curiosity, forensic science, and the memoir she never expected to write. Cornwell reflects on the childhood experiences that shaped her imagination, the role of journaling and archival memory in writing memoir, and why finding the opening hook still begins with one question: what am I seeing in my head? The episode closes with a reminder that even as the forms of storytelling change, humans will always need stories.