Sound Effect is your weekly tour of ideas, inspired by the place we live. This week our theme is confessions.
Local author Nicole Hardy had her life changed by confessions. Senior Producer, Arwen Nicks sits down with Hardy and learns how she used the money she made from her memoir, “Confessions of a Latter-day Virgin” to become a deckhand on a tall ship.
It’s been more than two decades since the publication of Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Lawrence Wright’s “Remembering Satan: A Tragic Case of Recovered Memory”.
It’s the true tale of a Thurston County sheriff’s deputy who confessed to practicing violent Satanic rituals. Wright speaks with KPLU’s Gabriel Spitzer about the hypothesis laid out in the book: that those confessions were likely entirely made-up.
Finally on the program, we hear from Iraq War veteran Jennifer Cox. Like many veterans, Cox struggled adjusting to life at home, after being deployed overseas. But she says she found comfort in telling her stories on the page though the help of a Washington-based called the Red Badge Project.
