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    A Life in Biography

    Talks and interviews about the life of biography as experienced by a biographer over forty years and fourteen biographies, dealing with subjects ranging from Sylvia Plath to William Faulkner, Marilyn Monroe to Susan Sontag, and much more.

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    The nature of literary power, who holds it, and how the biographer should understand it. Jun 03, 2023
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    Samuel R. Delany presents the writer as biographical subject and what it is the biographer needs to know about literary world and how reputations are made. But first a discussion of a movie, The Wife

    The Power of the Living Biographical Subject v The Power of the Biographer May 23, 2023
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    What does it mean to be powerful in the literary world, and in what sense should the biographer take it seriously?

    Dylan Thomas and why biography matters, with a cameo performance by Marilyn Monroe May 14, 2023
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    The correspondence with Samuel R. Delany continues, with many digressions, but all of them pertaining to biography and the work it can accomplish

    Why a biographer would go ahead when the subject is fiercely resistant May 07, 2023
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    The Sontag saga continues

    Samuel R. Delany refuses to give up on Susan Sontag’s biographers Apr 30, 2023
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    The seventh part of what is turning out to be a saga—listened to its entirety it amounts to a class on biography that you can take for free.

    Seamus Heaney in America with biographer Ed O’Shea Apr 30, 2023
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    A talk about Ed O’Shea’s recent book and what matters about Seamus Heaney’s experience in America

    What Does It Mean to Know a Biographical Subject Apr 23, 2023
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    An intervention by the New York Times and the story of a club of unauthorized biographers

    Round 5 of The Biographer and His Critic Apr 15, 2023
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    I continue the debate with Samuel R. Delany, reading from our correspondence and talking about it. In this episode, Sontag has her say.

    Round 4: The Biographer and His Critic Apr 08, 2023
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    Samuel R. Delany continues to point out the error of my ways, and I respond with my own letters and commentary.

    The Biographer and His Critic: Round 3 Apr 01, 2023
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    I continue to read and comment on my correspondence with Samuel R. Delany concerning the proper behavior of a biographer.

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