A Life in Biography
A podcast by Carl Rollyson - Sundays
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217 Episodes
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Robert Hamblin discusses his new book, a kind of biography of William Faulkner in verse
Published: 5/19/2024 -
I have reloaded the episode with Roger Lewis talking about his Taylor-Burton biography.
Published: 5/13/2024 -
A talk with Jared Stearns about his new biography of Marilyn Chambers and the world of hardcore
Published: 5/5/2024 -
The Existential Loneliness of the Long Distance Biographer
Published: 4/22/2024 -
Malcolm W. Browne reporting from Vietnam and other biographical matters with Ray Boomhower
Published: 4/14/2024 -
Biography in the Prison House of Modernism, Part 2
Published: 4/7/2024 -
A new Greta Garbo biography by Lois Banner, with new sources and insights
Published: 3/23/2024 -
Mary Dearborn discusses her new biography of Carson McCullers
Published: 3/17/2024 -
Sylvia Plath’s “Mirror” and the Prison House Modernism
Published: 3/10/2024 -
Authors vanish after they die and are revived. A talk with the biographer of Carolyn Wells.
Published: 3/3/2024 -
A rollicking interview with Paul Alexander about his new biography of Billie Holiday.
Published: 2/25/2024 -
My listeners respond
Published: 2/18/2024 -
Why Biography Doesn’t Belong
Published: 2/11/2024 -
A talk with Marian Janssen, biographer of Carolyn Kizer, one of the wild women of American poetry
Published: 2/4/2024 -
How close is too close when it comes to the biography of your subject?
Published: 1/28/2024 -
You’ve heard of Chaplin and Keaton, but Al Christie?—the subject of Mark Kearney’s new biography
Published: 1/21/2024 -
Tim Christian discusses his audiobook version of Hemingway’s Widow
Published: 1/15/2024 -
The author records his book: Tim Christian on Hemingway’s Widow
Published: 1/14/2024 -
Biographer Ruth Laney discusses her decades of work on the life and world of Ernest J. Gaines
Published: 1/7/2024 -
Whose biography is it, anyway? My answer to Joyce Carol Oates
Published: 12/24/2023
Talks and interviews about the life of biography as experienced by a biographer over forty years and fourteen biographies, dealing with subjects ranging from Sylvia Plath to William Faulkner, Marilyn Monroe to Susan Sontag, and much more.
