What’s New in Biography for 2021: The Unknowns and the Knowns
Two biographies that say a lot of why we turn to biography.
4 Dec 202119min
Ray Boomhower talks about his biography of acclaimed war correspondent, Richard Tregaskis
How a biography of a war correspondent gets done with a veteran biographer of war correspondents, Ray Boomhower.
20 Nov 202137min
Gay Faulkner and Biography, how the story gets told, and why.
Faulkner’s performance of gayness, why it was important, how it enters his work, and why a book such as Gay Faulkner destablizes biography is a good thing.
13 Nov 202153min
What’s New in Biography, 2021: Three Well Worn Biographical Subjects
Why write another biography of? Three biographers answer the question for Robert E. Lee, Oliver Cromwell, and Winston Churchill
6 Nov 202143min
Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, and most of all Assia Wevill in a new light in Capriccio
Part of a continuing series on the biographical novel and the way it contributes to our understanding of biographical subjects—this time with Dina Davis who does justice to Assia Wevill
31 Okt 202140min
The Business of Biography: An Addendum, courtesy of Karen Christensen
A wide-ranging discussion with Karen Christensen, publisher and biographer, about libel, indemnity clauses, the widow Eliot and others widows and wives.
23 Okt 202140min
The Role Of Interpretation: A Discussion with the Inimitable Hans Renders
A wide ranging discussion of how biographers treat the issue of interpretation, how much to comment as opposed to just telling the story.
21 Okt 202138min
The Answer to One Biography is Another Biography
I explain why in terms of my own experience researching and writing about the life of Sylvia Plath
16 Okt 202117min
