Life Stories #55: Nancy K. Miller

Nancy K. Miller went to Paris after graduating college in the 1960s, inspired by Jean Seberg in Godard's Breathless and determined to become somebody other than her parents' daughter--and, in her mind, sexual liberation was a key part of that transformation. Her plans didn't quite pan out, though, and she eventually found herself in a dreadful marriage which she subsequently destroyed. In this episode of Life Stories, I talk to Miller about that period of her life, which she's written about in Breathless: An American Girl in Paris, and about how her current work as a scholar of memoir writing has shaped her own approach to the craft.