Mary Dearborn discusses her new biography of Carson McCullers
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by Carl Rollyson
4d ago
Mary Dearborn does a valiant job of dealing with my interruptions in our discussion of her splendid biography of Carson McCullers ..read more
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Sylvia Plath’s “Mirror” and the Prison House Modernism
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by Carl Rollyson
2w ago
You might want to read Plath’s poem “Mirror” as I explain my reactions to it as a biographer ..read more
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A rollicking interview with Paul Alexander about his new biography of Billie Holiday.
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by Carl Rollyson
1M ago
Paul Alexander talks about his new state of the art biography of Billie Holiday. I listened and I learned ..read more
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My listeners respond
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by Carl Rollyson
1M ago
My listeners respond and I comment on their comments ..read more
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Why Biography Doesn’t Belong
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by Carl Rollyson
1M ago
A rambling meditation on the biographer as exile ..read more
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A talk with Marian Janssen, biographer of Carolyn Kizer, one of the wild women of American poetry
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by Carl Rollyson
1M ago
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 ..read more
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How close is too close when it comes to the biography of your subject?
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by Carl Rollyson
2M ago
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 ..read more
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You’ve heard of Chaplin and Keaton, but Al Christie?—the subject of Mark Kearney’s new biography
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by Carl Rollyson
2M ago
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 ..read more
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Tim Christian discusses his audiobook version of Hemingway’s Widow
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by Carl Rollyson
2M ago
How to do a biography as an audiobook ..read more
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The author records his book: Tim Christian on Hemingway’s Widow
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by Carl Rollyson
2M ago
Tim Christian describes the process of doing an audiobook, with some very specific advice and technical specifications ..read more
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