A Life in Biography

A podcast by Carl Rollyson

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222 Episodes

  1. Reposting, due to technical difficult. My interview with Debby Applegate about Madam

    Published: 1/12/2022
  2. Reposting this episode in case you had trouble hearing Debby Applegate talk about Polly Adler

    Published: 1/12/2022
  3. Plutarch Redux: Parallel Poems in the Age of Trump by Robert Hamblin

    Published: 1/8/2022
  4. Who’s Afraid of Theory?

    Published: 1/1/2022
  5. Christmas 1942 at the Faulkners

    Published: 12/25/2021
  6. A conversation with Debby Applegate about her biography Madam, and why it matters

    Published: 12/20/2021
  7. Mystery Podcast #1: Every biography is an autobiography

    Published: 12/18/2021
  8. A Conversation with Cathy Curtis about her new biography of Elizabeth Hardwick

    Published: 12/11/2021
  9. A talk with Hilary Holladay about her stirring new biography of Adrienne Rich

    Published: 12/5/2021
  10. What’s New in Biography for 2021: The Unknowns and the Knowns

    Published: 12/4/2021
  11. Ray Boomhower talks about his biography of acclaimed war correspondent, Richard Tregaskis

    Published: 11/20/2021
  12. Gay Faulkner and Biography, how the story gets told, and why.

    Published: 11/13/2021
  13. What’s New in Biography, 2021: Three Well Worn Biographical Subjects

    Published: 11/6/2021
  14. Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, and most of all Assia Wevill in a new light in Capriccio

    Published: 10/31/2021
  15. The Business of Biography: An Addendum, courtesy of Karen Christensen

    Published: 10/23/2021
  16. The Role Of Interpretation: A Discussion with the Inimitable Hans Renders

    Published: 10/21/2021
  17. The Answer to One Biography is Another Biography

    Published: 10/16/2021
  18. The Answer to One Biography is Another Biography

    Published: 10/16/2021
  19. A conversation with Joseph McBride about Billy Wilder: Dancing on the Edge

    Published: 10/9/2021
  20. A Capsule History of The Biographical Novel with Michael Lackey

    Published: 10/2/2021

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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.