The Existential Loneliness of the Long Distance Biographer
This podcast is not as pretentious or self-pitying as you might suppose.
22 Apr 20241h 9min
Malcolm W. Browne reporting from Vietnam and other biographical matters with Ray Boomhower
Ray Boomhower talks about what it is like to be a journalist in Vietnam and about what it is like writing biographies of journalists.
14 Apr 202441min
Biography in the Prison House of Modernism, Part 2
I had fun with this one. I really let it rip, if I do say so myself.
7 Apr 202441min
A new Greta Garbo biography by Lois Banner, with new sources and insights
Lois Banner, biographer of Marilyn Monroe, turns to Garbo, learns Swedish, and discovers all sorts of important sources not to be found in previous biographies.
23 Mars 202442min
Mary Dearborn discusses her new biography of Carson McCullers
Mary Dearborn does a valiant job of dealing with my interruptions in our discussion of her splendid biography of Carson McCullers.
17 Mars 202452min
Sylvia Plath’s “Mirror” and the Prison House Modernism
You might want to read Plath’s poem “Mirror” as I explain my reactions to it as a biographer.
10 Mars 202417min
Authors vanish after they die and are revived. A talk with the biographer of Carolyn Wells.
How Rebecca Rego Barry discovered Carolyn Wells, and why she wrote a biography of a forgotten literary figure, and how she did it.
3 Mars 202417min
A rollicking interview with Paul Alexander about his new biography of Billie Holiday.
Paul Alexander talks about his new state of the art biography of Billie Holiday. I listened and I learned.
25 Feb 202434min
