Episodes
In this special bonus episode Cameron sits down with her dear friend, writer and classical homeopath Fi Connors, to discuss love addiction, romantic obsession and recovery, and how it relates to Cameron's just released memoir THIS IS MY BODY.
Published 11/25/19
On this week's episode Cameron talks to author and editor Lily Dancyger about the recently released collection of essays she edited for Seal Press, Burn It Down: Women Writing About Anger.
Published 11/05/19
On this week's episode Cameron talks to author Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum about her 2018 collection of short stories What We Do With the Wreckage, and a particular short story therein entitiled "Where Have the Vanished Girls Gone?"
Published 10/29/19
On this week's episode Cameron celebrates the release of her memoir THIS IS MY BODY by having last week's guest, journalist Lyz Lenz, back to talk about faith, sex, shame, and religious trauma.
Published 10/22/19
On this week's episode Cameron talks to journalist Lyz Lenz about her spectacular new book God Land, the dangers of evangelicalism, and the deeply freeing experience of leaving it behind.
Published 10/15/19
On this week's episode Cameron talks to groundbreaking journalist Sarah Stankorb about her powerful cover story for The Washington Post about the bloggers exposing sexual abuse in evangelical churches. Content warning: sexual abuse, sexual assault, spiritual abuse.
Published 10/08/19
In episode 5, Cameron interviews Houston-based performance poet and writer Emanuelee “Outspoken” Bean in front of a live audience at local bar/cafe Cafeza. Their conversation, woven between poetry performances, circles around art, success, fear, failure, and what it means to live as a learner.
Published 10/01/19
In episode 4, Cameron talks to Justin McRoberts and Scott Erickson about prayer, religious trauma, and the gendering of God.
Published 09/24/19
In episode 3, Cameron talks with debut author Amy Long about her haunting new collection of essays —CODEPENDENCE —on opioid addiction and pain management, as well as her journey of writing and releasing the collection.
Published 09/17/19
In episode 2, Cameron talks to debut memoirist Sarah Townsend— author of SETTING THE WIRE— about motherhood, mental illness, and family ties.
Published 09/10/19
In our first episode of Season 3, Cameron talks to debut novelist Agnes Gomillion— author of THE RECORD KEEPER- about afrofuturism, the history of Christianity in the black community, and the pleasures and perils of being ahead of your time.
Published 09/03/19
In this inaugural episode of The Ish Live, Cameron talks to New York Times best-selling author Dani Shapiro about her incredible new memoir, Inheritance.
Published 02/12/19
In the final episode of the season, Cameron talks to author Bryan Bliss about empathy and privilege, the work of art and activism, and his new book WE'LL FLY AWAY, long listed for the National Book Award in Young People's Literature.
Published 10/16/18
In this episode, Cameron talks to writer Melissa Stephenson about intense sibling relationships, her lifetime obsession with beater cars, and her poignant new memoir, Driven.
Published 10/09/18
“Women are taught to expect violence.” - Alice Bolin
In this timely episode, Cameron talks to essayist Alice Bolin about missing white girl syndrome, sacrificial maidens, and our cultural obsession with the “dead girl show.”
Published 10/04/18
In this episode, Cameron talks to author and longtime NPR commentator Marion Winik about falling in love with Texas, Prince, and her new book THE BALTIMORE BOOK OF THE DEAD.
Published 09/25/18
In this episode, Cameron talks to author/activist Lacy M. Johnson about justice, mercy, and the myth of redemptive violence.
Published 09/18/18
In this very personal episode, Cameron interviews her mentor and friend, the writer Michael Horowitz, about his work with 1960s icon Timothy Leary, consciousness expansion, and briefly, about the cultural impact his daughter, actress Winona Ryder, had on Generation X.
Published 07/31/18
In Episode 4, Cameron talks to poet Brian Turner about his new musical project, uploading human consciousness, and the way music connects us.
Published 07/24/18
In Episode 3, Cameron and memoirist Erin O. White discuss Erin's book Given Up For You, which chronicles her experience of falling in love with the Catholic church and another woman simultaneously, and the difficulty of ultimately having to choose one over the other.
Published 07/17/18
In Episode 2, Cameron talks to memoirist Lisa Romeo about conversations with ghosts, the surprises of grief, complicated fathers, and Lisa's new book, ‘Starting With Goodbye.’
Published 07/10/18
Trying to come to grips with the collective madness of the evangelical church in America? In this raucous opening to Season 2, Cameron talks to the delightfully irreverent Jamie Wright, author of blog-turned-book The Very Worst Missionary: A Memoir or Whatever, about how her experience on the international mission field changed everything about her relationship — not to her Christian faith — but to the evangelical church. Greed, corruption, and what Jamie calls "white savior colonial...
Published 07/03/18
For the Season One finale, Famous-ish, Cameron sits down with her brother, singer/songwriter Alex Dezen, to talk about the meaning of life and art making, the comparative values of millennials and Gen X-ers, and late stage capitalism.
Published 12/19/17
In Episode 9, Cameron talks to marine biologist and memoirist Shannon Leone Fowler, who at 28 lost her fiancé to the most venomous sea creature on earth. They talk about grief, healing, and the power of looking someone in the eye.
Published 12/12/17