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
Biographer Ruth Laney discusses her decades of work on the life and world of Ernest J. Gaines
Cherie Quarters: The Place and People That Inspire Ernest J. Gaines: biography, memoir, history, and an evocation of the material world out of which a great American writer fashioned his fiction.
7 Jan 202450min
