Episode 51: Talking with Bob Batchelor about his book, biography—how it gets done and so much more.

What it means to circle around your subject in a biography and how that circling is hermeneutical. I draw on my biography of Lillian Hellman for examples.

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My encounters with Janet Malcolm’s assault on biography, beginning in 1994 and continuing through several books of mine in the new millennium.

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The biographer of Raymond Carver explains what drew her to Alice Adams and the history of the generation that came into its own after World War II

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A talk with Kai Bird about his Shakespearean/Faulknerian biography of Jimmy Carter

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A wide-ranging discussion of why Ethel Rosenberg matters, what is new in her story, and why American writers continue to be obsessed with her life.

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I draw on my experience of writing biographies of William Faulkner, Michael Foot, and Amy Lowell, to explain why biographies have to be about the whole person, notwithstanding the charge of literary prurience.

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What you need to know about reading, writing, and reviewing biography.

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