The Answer to One Biography is Another Biography
I explain why in terms of my own experience working on Sylvia Plath
16 Loka 202117min
A conversation with Joseph McBride about Billy Wilder: Dancing on the Edge
A wide-ranging discussion of Billy Wilder’s career, why McBride decided to do a biographical/critical study of the director, and the different objectives of biographical and critical studies in view of McBride’s own work on Frank Capra, John Ford, Steven Spielberg, Orson Welles, and others.
9 Loka 202139min
A Capsule History of The Biographical Novel with Michael Lackey
How the biographical novel got started, what it is now, and where we are headed.
2 Loka 20211h 14min
What’s New in Biography, Part 3: Show Business and the Archives
Three new biographies that say so much about the art of biography.
25 Syys 202132min
A talk about a great figure in the Civil Rights movement, Fannie Lou Hamer.
A talk about a great figure in the Civil Rights movement, Fannie Lou Hamer, with a master biographer, Kate Clifford Larson
18 Syys 202139min
What’s New in Biography, Part 2
Introductions to five new biographies of miscreants and saints: Louis Lorax, Mary Todd Lincoln, Robert Maxwell, Simone Weil, and Queen Victoria
11 Syys 202136min
Part 1: What’s New In Biography
Brief forays into six biographies of Monica Jones and Philip Larkin, D. H. Lawrence, Alfred Hitchcock, Helen Frankenthaler, William Blake, and Napoleon
4 Syys 202125min
Season 2, Episode 1: A Preview of Coming Attractions
More interviews with biographers, biographical novelists, discussions of issues that concern biographers and readers, and my take on several new biographies published in 2021.
28 Elo 202111min
