Coming attractions

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Polar exploration and Warren Harding as explained from an Amtrak platform in Charleston, West Virginia

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The Answer to One Biography is Another Biography

The Answer to One Biography is Another Biography

I explain why in terms of my own experience working on Sylvia Plath

16 Okt 202117min

A conversation with Joseph McBride about Billy Wilder: Dancing on the Edge

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 Okt 202139min

A Capsule History of The Biographical Novel with Michael Lackey

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 Okt 20211h 14min

What’s New in Biography, Part 3: Show Business and the Archives

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 Sep 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.

A talk about a great figure in the Civil Rights movement, Fannie Lou Hamer, with a master biographer, Kate Clifford Larson

18 Sep 202139min

What’s New in Biography, Part 2

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 Sep 202136min

Part 1: What’s New In Biography

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 Sep 202125min

Season 2, Episode 1: A Preview of Coming Attractions

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 Aug 202111min

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