Molly Gaudry Experiments With Personal Storytelling

Molly Gaudry Experiments With Personal Storytelling

From Talking Writing by Martha Nichols, John Vogel, and Neva Talladen

December 17, 2025 · 47 min · Season 6 · Episode 6

About this episode

Molly Gaudry discusses her new book and the complexities of personal storytelling.

In today’s episode author Molly Gaudry sits down with TW founder and publisher Martha Nichols. Molly holds degrees in fiction, poetry, and experimental prose, and her new book that just came out last week is aptly titled Fit Into Me: A Novel, A Memoir . The book weaves a fictional narrative into Molly’s own story along with fragments from a wide range of other authors in an effort to create a sense of self via the combination of different elements. With this format Molly explores her experience as a Korean adoptee raised in the US, meeting her birth family as a teenager, and recovering from a brain injury as an adult. In this TW conversation, Fit Into Me provides a jumping-off point for big questions about self-creation and the holes in memory that writers inevitably confront when telling their own stories. Martha and Molly discuss how she blended its nonfiction sections with the fictional story of a character (the “tea-house woman”) taken from her two previous works, We Take Me Apart (Ampersand, 2009), which was a finalist for the Asian American Literary Award; and Desire: A Haunting (Ampersand, 2018).

People in this episode

Hosts: Martha Nichols, Neva Talladen

Guest: Molly Gaudry

Topics covered

  • personal storytelling
  • memoir
  • fiction
  • identity
  • adoption
  • memory

Keywords

  • Molly Gaudry
  • Fit Into Me
  • memoir
  • fiction
  • Korean adoptee
  • brain injury
  • self-creation

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Ampersand

Books & works: Fit Into Me: A Novel, A Memoir, We Take Me Apart, Desire: A Haunting

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