My listeners respond
My listeners respond and I comment on their comments
18 Feb 202430min
Why Biography Doesn’t Belong
A rambling meditation on the biographer as exile.
11 Feb 202416min
A talk with Marian Janssen, biographer of Carolyn Kizer, one of the wild women of American poetry
A talk with the delightful Marian Janssen who describes her career as a biographer and why she chose to write about the American poet Carolyn Kizer.
4 Feb 202430min
How close is too close when it comes to the biography of your subject?
I explain what happened when I became part of the lives of my two subjects while researching and writing To Be a Woman: The Life of Jill Craigie and A Private Life of Michael Foot
28 Jan 202433min
You’ve heard of Chaplin and Keaton, but Al Christie?—the subject of Mark Kearney’s new biography
Al Christie: Hollywood’s Forgotten Film Pioneer by Mark Kearney. A wide ranging discussion of a pioneer Hollywood filmmaker, how to write his biography, and what implications there are for biographers...
21 Jan 202436min
Tim Christian discusses his audiobook version of Hemingway’s Widow
How to do a biography as an audiobook
15 Jan 202429min
The author records his book: Tim Christian on Hemingway’s Widow
Tim Christian describes the process of doing an audiobook, with some very specific advice and technical specifications.
14 Jan 202429min
