The Gatekeepers
You know what I mean, don’t you?
12 Maj 20226h 54min
A conversation with Michelle Morgan one of the masters of Marilyn Monroe biography
We delve deeply into a kind of time capsule of 1956, when Marilyn met the Queen and so much else
7 Maj 202246min
A conversation with David O. Stewart about the worlds of biography and fiction
The overlapping worlds of biography and fiction and how they are inter-dependent
30 Apr 202237min
A talk with master biographer, Nigel Hamilton.
About the making of a biographer and what keeps him at it.
23 Apr 202240min
Cynthia Ozick and “The Biographer’s Hat”
What happens when biographers become the subjects of fiction
16 Apr 202223min
Why John C. Calhoun still matters: a talk with his biographer, Robert Elder
There is much more to Calhoun, that proponent of slavery, than you might imagine.
8 Apr 202251min
The poetry of biography, and the biography of poetry, with Iris Jamahl Dunkle
The poet as biographer and the biographer as poet
2 Apr 202238min
Talking with Lee Kravetz about his fresh, intriguing depiction of Sylvia Plath and her world
A follow up to my New York Sun review of Lee Kravetz’s marvelously inventive novel about Sylvia Plath and the conditions of her life and her creativity.
27 Mars 202238min
