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 of film figures.
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
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
