The Barrow Podcast
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Episodes: 71
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A self-hating Boomer mum and her disgruntled boomerang son reunite to have the conversations they've been avoiding and utilise their combined insight into divorce, dysfunctional families, and mental illness to write a memoir together.
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A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints by Dito Montiel (w/ Patrick Michael Finn)
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Sep 20, 2026 |
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MEMOIR-IN-PROGRESS | 'Engagement' & 'Years'
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Sep 17, 2026 |
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Gay Coded | Survival, repression, dissociation, dishonesty.
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Sep 12, 2026 |
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GUEST EPISODE | Scott Laudati on culture, cancer, circle jerks, indie presses, and his new collection Rainbow Road.
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Sep 05, 2026 |
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BONUS READING | 'The End of the World' by Mavis Gallant
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Sep 02, 2026 |
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Class Insecurities | Striving, superiority/inferiority complexes, and the beginning of the end.
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Aug 29, 2026 |
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French Bogan | The End of Eddy by Edouard Louis
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Aug 22, 2026 |
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All Families Are Cults | Enmeshment, pressure, paranoia, and influence.
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Aug 15, 2026 |
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I Hate You, Don't Leave Me | Borderline Personality Disorder, mental health textbooks, & self-help.
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Aug 08, 2026 |
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Depression, Disbelief & Diagnoses | Suicidality & not wanting to be labelled a 'victim'.
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Aug 01, 2026 |
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MEMOIR-IN-PROGRESS | 'Dinner' & 'Travel'
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Jul 25, 2026 |
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Child Abuse | Insecure men, narcissism, & ritualistic bullying.
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Jul 18, 2026 |
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The Body Keeps the Score | Developmental Trauma: The Hidden Epidemic
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Jul 11, 2026 |
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The State of Aged Care | Mum & I discuss the final stages of her father’s life.
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Jul 08, 2026 |
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BONUS READING | 'Florida' by Mavis Gallant
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Jul 05, 2026 |
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Stepfamilies Aren’t Real | Cultural deprivation, social class, compartmentalisation, & access arrangements w/ strangers.
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Jul 04, 2026 |
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Sex Stink | Abuse & neglect, victimhood, morality, & forgiveness.
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Jun 27, 2026 |
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MEMOIR-IN-PROGRESS | 'Dances' & 'Props'
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Jun 24, 2026 |
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Abandonment Wounds | Male insecurity, how predators exploit fatherlessness, & repression.
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Jun 20, 2026 |
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The Body Keeps the Score | Attachment & Attunement
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Jun 13, 2026 |
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BONUS READING | 'From Cloud to Cloud' by Mavis Gallant
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Jun 10, 2026 |
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First Chapter | A reading from the final draft of our memoir.
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Jun 06, 2026 |
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GUEST EPISODE | Patrick Michael Finn on growing up in difficult places, the stories we need to write, and bipolar disorder.
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May 31, 2026 |
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GUEST EPISODE | Anna Koutsafti on ghosts, ghosting, the loneliness epidemic, SSRIs, and the sex lives of mussels.
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May 24, 2026 |
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GUEST EPISODE | Jack Norman on parenting, short story writing, and his new collection Sleep Capricorn.
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May 16, 2026 |
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Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen | Mental illness, gender, and our cultural obsession with mental health.
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May 02, 2026 |
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BONUS READING | '1933' by Mavis Gallant
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Apr 26, 2026 |
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MEMOIR-IN-PROGRESS | 'Appearances' & 'Russell'
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Apr 25, 2026 |
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This House of Grief by Helen Garner | Family annihilators and the precarity of access arrangements.
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Apr 18, 2026 |
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Access Arrangements | When children become effigies.
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Apr 11, 2026 |
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Updates | Mum & I discuss the current state of our memoir, plus our favourite books from childhood.
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Apr 04, 2026 |
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Divorce | Reconciling what "should" have been.
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Mar 28, 2026 |
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The Pitfalls of Progressivism | Homophobia, divorce, identity politics, history, & feminism.
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Mar 21, 2026 |
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Desertion | Men who abandon their families.
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Mar 14, 2026 |
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Karl Ove Knausgaard
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Mar 07, 2026 |
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Scorpios United
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Feb 28, 2026 |
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GUEST EPISODE | David Goodwin on masculinity, literary culture, dead end jobs, & trauma.
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Feb 25, 2026 |
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The Catastrophe Hour by Meghan Daum | Family, desire, & personal reflection.
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Feb 21, 2026 |
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Wedding Bells | Self-loathing, the true meaning of marriage, & a horrible history of family photos.
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Feb 14, 2026 |
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MEMOIR-IN-PROGRESS | ‘Friends’ & ‘Alarms’
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Feb 11, 2026 |
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Difficult Women by David Plante | Middle-class sensibilities, ethics & controversy.
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Feb 07, 2026 |
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Engagement Cake | Overbearing mothers, family tensions, & regret.
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Jan 31, 2026 |
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GUEST EPISODE | Richard Cabut on modern writing, capitalism, the Situationists, & his new book Ripped Backsides.
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Dec 17, 2025 |
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Can You Ever Forgive Me? | Lee Israel's comedy memoir on forgeries, literary aspiration, & delusion.
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Dec 13, 2025 |
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Everything's Fine | Manipulation, narcissism, avoidance, & control.
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Dec 06, 2025 |
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So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell | Rural stoicism, memory, and sliding doors.
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Nov 29, 2025 |
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Badges of Honour | Mother and son discuss mental health, love and relationships.
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Nov 22, 2025 |
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Pedigree by Patrick Modiano | Social class, psychogeography, hauntings, & family history.
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Nov 15, 2025 |
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Take Us To Vegas, Baby! | Outliers, blame, & the pitfalls of unpacking the past.
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Nov 08, 2025 |
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MEMOIR-IN-PROGRESS | Monkeybars + Religion
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Nov 01, 2025 |
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Sex Creeps In | A mother & son discuss schooling, sexual development, & blind dates.
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Oct 25, 2025 |
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Vanished Years by Rupert Everett | Celebrity memoirs, nostalgia, failure, & self-deprecation.
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Oct 18, 2025 |
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Piousness Is Not Progressive | Adolescence, debutante balls, wardrobe malfunctions, & new religions.
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Oct 11, 2025 |
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GUEST EPISODE | Matt Fresta on art-making, curation, understanding vs experience, & owning cats.
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Oct 07, 2025 |
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Travel Light, Move Fast by Alexandra Fuller | Characterisation in memoir writing.
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Oct 04, 2025 |
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"Upsettling" | A mother and son talk about bed-wetting, body shame, and adolescence.
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Sep 27, 2025 |
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The Basketball Diaries by Jim Carroll | Voice as style in writing.
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Sep 20, 2025 |
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Mother and Son Talk Friendship | Female friendship groups, loyalty, commitment, & wet cats.
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Sep 13, 2025 |
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How to Write a Memoir With Your Mother | Creative process and managing research materials.
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Sep 06, 2025 |
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Shame | Mother and son talk about adolescence, gender, body image, and religion.
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Aug 30, 2025 |
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Suzanne by Anais Barbeau-Lavalette | The best book you haven't read.
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Aug 23, 2025 |
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Arrested Development | Childhood crushes, adolescence, & avoidance.
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Aug 16, 2025 |
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The Uptown Local by Cory Leadbeater | Social class, pretensions, shame, & fathers and sons.
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Aug 09, 2025 |
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Parents Who Can, Do | Social class, mental health, parenting, & the challenges of writing memoir.
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Aug 02, 2025 |
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Blue Nights by Joan Didion | Adoption, trauma, parenting & grief.
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Jul 26, 2025 |
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Things To Be Afraid Of | Brown snakes, childhood fears, & the Faraday School kidnapping.
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Jul 19, 2025 |
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Unravelling Us by Renee McBryde | Intergenerational trauma, family secrets, mothers & forgiveness.
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Jul 12, 2025 |
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Only Children Aren't the Answer | Parenting, ethics, and the future of small families.
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Jul 05, 2025 |
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The Erratics by Vicki Laveau-Harvie | Dysfunctional families, mental illness, memory, & escape.
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Jun 28, 2025 |
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Every Family is Deluded | The power and influence of self-narratives.
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Jun 21, 2025 |
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The Barrow Podcast Trailer
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Apr 07, 2025 |