Tim Christian discusses his audiobook version of Hemingway’s Widow
A Life in Biography15 Tammi 2024

Tim Christian discusses his audiobook version of Hemingway’s Widow

How to do a biography as an audiobook

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Episode 42: Talking Faulkner biography with Larry Wells, author of the memoir, In Faulkner’s Shadow

Episode 42: Talking Faulkner biography with Larry Wells, author of the memoir, In Faulkner’s Shadow

A wide ranging discussion of Larry Wells’s memories of the Faulkner family, of Faulkner biographers, Joseph Blotner and Carvel Collins, and what it takes to research and write biography, which often feels like a Henry James story.

17 Tammi 202139min

Episode 41: Heather Clark on her new Plath Biography.

Episode 41: Heather Clark on her new Plath Biography.

We talk about how Heather Clark became interested in Plath, how she came to write the biography, how biography is a product of its age, and much more.

9 Tammi 202130min

Episode 40: John Bryant on his new multi-volume Melville biography

Episode 40: John Bryant on his new multi-volume Melville biography

A wide-ranging discussion of biography, how to work on literary figures Melville’s “black consciousness” and much more.

2 Tammi 202143min

Part 3 of my interview with Alexis Coe

Part 3 of my interview with Alexis Coe

Slavery, capitalism, what went into the making of Washington’s life and those of his contemporaries—plus Alexis Coe puts THE BIG QUESTION to me.

29 Joulu 202015min

Part 2 of my interview with Alexis Coe

Part 2 of my interview with Alexis Coe

More discussion of how to shake up the genre of presidential biography.

29 Joulu 20206min

Part 1: Alexis Coe author of You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington

Part 1: Alexis Coe author of You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington

A wide ranging discussion of presidential biography and why Alexis Coe decided on what has been called a “historiographical intervention.”

29 Joulu 20209min

Episode 38: Ten Tips For Enterprising Biographers

Episode 38: Ten Tips For Enterprising Biographers

My experience over 40 years of contacting sources and how they responded, and how I got them to respond.

26 Joulu 202039min

Episode 37: Why Plath: My Rollicking Interview with Emily Van Dyne about her forthcoming book

Episode 37: Why Plath: My Rollicking Interview with Emily Van Dyne about her forthcoming book

Much talk about Emily’s book, Loving Sylvia Plath, how students and other readers react to Plath, and the role biography plays in the mixed reactions to her work.

19 Joulu 202037min

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