Work in Progress: A Biography of Marilyn Chambers
The first biography of the adult film star and how a biographer goes about the research, finding an agent and publisher.
24 Sep 202240min
A conversation to Jerry Muller about Jacob Taubes, the Professor of Apocalypse
We range over the many places and people of an erotic and intellectual life spanning Europe, the U.S., and Israel with Susan Sontag, Gershom Scholem, Herbert Marcuse, and many more radical thinkers.
19 Sep 202249min
A talk with Beverly Gray about Roger Corman, Ron Howard, and what it takes to do a biography
How do you become a biographer? Hear one story about it and Beverly Gray’s adventures with Roger Corman and Ron Howard
10 Sep 202245min
A Biography of Jack Ruby, you say?
Listen to Danny Fingeroth speak from an undisclosed location about his work in progress.
3 Sep 202239min
Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and the Biographical Quest
LIsten to Aaron Sachs talk about his new book, Up From the Depths: Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times. I call it a palimpsest of biography in my New York Sun Review.
20 Aug 202248min
A talk about Jackie Ronne, polar explorer with her accomplished biographer, Joanna Kafarowski
How history gets rewritten in biographies of women
6 Aug 202238min
Why another biography of Ernest Hemingway?
A talk with Wylie McLallen about Hemingway and the rise of modern literature, publishers of biography, and much else.
30 Jul 202242min
Coming attractions
Polar exploration and Warren Harding as explained from an Amtrak platform in Charleston, West Virginia
24 Jul 20222min
