A Life in Biography
A podcast by Carl Rollyson
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222 Episodes
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Reposting, due to technical difficult. My interview with Debby Applegate about Madam
Published: 1/12/2022 -
Reposting this episode in case you had trouble hearing Debby Applegate talk about Polly Adler
Published: 1/12/2022 -
Plutarch Redux: Parallel Poems in the Age of Trump by Robert Hamblin
Published: 1/8/2022 -
Who’s Afraid of Theory?
Published: 1/1/2022 -
Christmas 1942 at the Faulkners
Published: 12/25/2021 -
A conversation with Debby Applegate about her biography Madam, and why it matters
Published: 12/20/2021 -
Mystery Podcast #1: Every biography is an autobiography
Published: 12/18/2021 -
A Conversation with Cathy Curtis about her new biography of Elizabeth Hardwick
Published: 12/11/2021 -
A talk with Hilary Holladay about her stirring new biography of Adrienne Rich
Published: 12/5/2021 -
What’s New in Biography for 2021: The Unknowns and the Knowns
Published: 12/4/2021 -
Ray Boomhower talks about his biography of acclaimed war correspondent, Richard Tregaskis
Published: 11/20/2021 -
Gay Faulkner and Biography, how the story gets told, and why.
Published: 11/13/2021 -
What’s New in Biography, 2021: Three Well Worn Biographical Subjects
Published: 11/6/2021 -
Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, and most of all Assia Wevill in a new light in Capriccio
Published: 10/31/2021 -
The Business of Biography: An Addendum, courtesy of Karen Christensen
Published: 10/23/2021 -
The Role Of Interpretation: A Discussion with the Inimitable Hans Renders
Published: 10/21/2021 -
The Answer to One Biography is Another Biography
Published: 10/16/2021 -
The Answer to One Biography is Another Biography
Published: 10/16/2021 -
A conversation with Joseph McBride about Billy Wilder: Dancing on the Edge
Published: 10/9/2021 -
A Capsule History of The Biographical Novel with Michael Lackey
Published: 10/2/2021
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.