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Season 3, Episode 6
Lucia Berlin (read by Elizabeth Geoghegan) + Rebecca Rego

Lucia Berlin died years before her short story collection, A Manual for Cleaning Women, became an international bestseller. Berlin's friend and former student Elizabeth Geoghegan reads her autobiographical story, "Mama."

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Photo by Lovisa Stephenson

Songwriter Rebecca Rego talks about her recent album inspired by Berlin's writing, and about her admiration for Berlin's insistent artistic vision.

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Photo by Stephanie Bassos

For a live show with Elizabeth and Rebecca, I wrote a song in response to "Mama" as well, titled "Mercy Redux, which you can hear below, along with other episodes of SongWriter