A Life in Biography

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Emily. Van Duyne discusses her new, ground breaking book, Loving Sylvia Plath Jul 14, 2024

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You think you know the Plath story? Ah, but who gets to tell it, and why do they do so, and how does someone like Ted Hughes commandeer the narrative?

Ghostwriter, biographer, novelist, Shakespeare, Faulkner—we cover it all in Lawrence Wells’s work Jul 07, 2024

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What happens when a writer is hired to do a biographical novel seeking to prove Shakespeare was not Shakespeare, and how years later, the project becomes two books of nonfiction and fiction

Marcia Biederman on her fascinating book about abortion in 19th C. New England Jun 30, 2024

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Marcia Biderman writes biography like a mystery story. There is much to learn from her.

A few more words about branding. Jun 12, 2024

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This won’t take long.

Building Your Brand and Best Practices Jun 09, 2024

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Advice you may not want to take.

Robert Hamblin discusses his new book, a kind of biography of William Faulkner in verse May 19, 2024

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An important Faulkner critic and biographer introduces us to new way of understanding Faulkner, his fiction, and his life

I have reloaded the episode with Roger Lewis talking about his Taylor-Burton biography. May 13, 2024

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A loading issue made me repost this exciting talk with Roger Lewis.

A talk with Jared Stearns about his new biography of Marilyn Chambers and the world of hardcore May 05, 2024

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How does a biographer deal with the world of pornography and so-called porn stars. Jared Stearns knows how in his biography, Pure: The Sexual Revolutions of Marilyn Chambers.

The Existential Loneliness of the Long Distance Biographer Apr 22, 2024

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This podcast is not as pretentious or self-pitying as you might suppose.

Malcolm W. Browne reporting from Vietnam and other biographical matters with Ray Boomhower Apr 14, 2024

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Ray Boomhower talks about what it is like to be a journalist in Vietnam and about what it is like writing biographies of journalists.