सर्वश्रेष्ठ Susan Stearns पॉडकास्टस (2024)

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Emily. Van Duyne discusses her new, ground breaking book, Loving Sylvia Plath 51:18

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You think you know the Plath story? Ah, but who gets to tell it, and why do they do so, and how does someone like Ted Hughes commandeer the narrative?

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Ghostwriter, biographer, novelist, Shakespeare, Faulkner—we cover it all in Lawrence Wells’s work 34:23

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What happens when a writer is hired to do a biographical novel seeking to prove Shakespeare was not Shakespeare, and how years later, the project becomes two books of nonfiction and fiction

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Marcia Biederman on her fascinating book about abortion in 19th C. New England 35:21

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Marcia Biderman writes biography like a mystery story. There is much to learn from her.

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A few more words about branding. 11:43

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This won’t take long.

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Building Your Brand and Best Practices 35:09

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Advice you may not want to take.

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Robert Hamblin discusses his new book, a kind of biography of William Faulkner in verse 40:00

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An important Faulkner critic and biographer introduces us to new way of understanding Faulkner, his fiction, and his life

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I have reloaded the episode with Roger Lewis talking about his Taylor-Burton biography. 38:21

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A loading issue made me repost this exciting talk with Roger Lewis.

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A talk with Jared Stearns about his new biography of Marilyn Chambers and the world of hardcore 47:55

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How does a biographer deal with the world of pornography and so-called porn stars. Jared Stearns knows how in his biography, Pure: The Sexual Revolutions of Marilyn Chambers.

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The Existential Loneliness of the Long Distance Biographer 1:09:42

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This podcast is not as pretentious or self-pitying as you might suppose.

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Malcolm W. Browne reporting from Vietnam and other biographical matters with Ray Boomhower 41:22

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Ray Boomhower talks about what it is like to be a journalist in Vietnam and about what it is like writing biographies of journalists.

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Biography in the Prison House of Modernism, Part 2 41:08

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I had fun with this one. I really let it rip, if I do say so myself.

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A new Greta Garbo biography by Lois Banner, with new sources and insights 42:43

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Lois Banner, biographer of Marilyn Monroe, turns to Garbo, learns Swedish, and discovers all sorts of important sources not to be found in previous biographies.

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Mary Dearborn discusses her new biography of Carson McCullers 52:07

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Mary Dearborn does a valiant job of dealing with my interruptions in our discussion of her splendid biography of Carson McCullers.

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Sylvia Plath’s “Mirror” and the Prison House Modernism 17:18

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You might want to read Plath’s poem “Mirror” as I explain my reactions to it as a biographer.

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Authors vanish after they die and are revived. A talk with the biographer of Carolyn Wells. 17:18

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How Rebecca Rego Barry discovered Carolyn Wells, and why she wrote a biography of a forgotten literary figure, and how she did it.

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A rollicking interview with Paul Alexander about his new biography of Billie Holiday. 34:25

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Paul Alexander talks about his new state of the art biography of Billie Holiday. I listened and I learned.

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My listeners respond 30:28

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My listeners respond and I comment on their comments

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Why Biography Doesn’t Belong 16:28

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A rambling meditation on the biographer as exile.

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A talk with Marian Janssen, biographer of Carolyn Kizer, one of the wild women of American poetry 30:58

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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.

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How close is too close when it comes to the biography of your subject? 33:41

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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

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You’ve heard of Chaplin and Keaton, but Al Christie?—the subject of Mark Kearney’s new biography 36:37

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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.

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Tim Christian discusses his audiobook version of Hemingway’s Widow 29:45

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How to do a biography as an audiobook

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The author records his book: Tim Christian on Hemingway’s Widow 29:49

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Tim Christian describes the process of doing an audiobook, with some very specific advice and technical specifications.

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Biographer Ruth Laney discusses her decades of work on the life and world of Ernest J. Gaines 50:48

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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.

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Whose biography is it, anyway? My answer to Joyce Carol Oates 9:48

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A brief podcast, what you might call a short snort, about those who malign biography.

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Honey Traps! Why spies make good if spooky biographical subjects. 26:58

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A talk with Henry Schlesinger about his book on Honey Traps and the biographies of alluring spies.

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A slightly trimmed version of my talk with Chris Wallace about biographers and political lives 40:34

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What happens when the biographer becomes part of the story? Chris Wallace shows us in her unique book, Political Lives.

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A conversation with Chris Wallace about her book Political Lives and how biographers get the story 41:02

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A discussion of a unique book by Chris Wallace, a journalist turned scholar, and how biographers interact with their subjects.

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Come On! Get Happy! How Summer Stock with Judy Garland and Gene Kelly got made 41:02

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Join David Fantle and Tom Johnson for a lively discussion of the backstory and performances and production of the MGM musical, Summer Stock

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Danny Fingeroth’s new biography of Jack Ruby 40:51

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How to deal with a figure so involved with conspiracy theories: What does a biography have to add to history?

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Listening to Larry Lockridge, Part 2, biographer turned novelist 36:11

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What happens when a biographer turns from the themes of his biography to a series of novels that are biographical and then some.

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What happened when T. S. Matthews decided to write the first biography of T. S. Eliot? Find out! 44:16

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A conversation with Karen Christensen about her edition of Writing The Great Tom as well as her own work on a biography of Valerie Eliot.

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The role of place and the place of the biographer’s biography in biography 16:08

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An example from my Lillian Hellman biography.

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Larry Lockridge discusses his biography of his father Ross Lockridge and his novel Raintree County 41:51

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Listen to a fascinating discussion of how biographers deal with success and suicide and what happens when you discover details that fundamentally alter what is known about your subject.

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Talking with Dan Van Neste about Warner Baxter, the “accidental star” 40:07

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Why is it that some important actors are remembered and not others? Find out by listening to this discussion about Dan Van Neste’s biography of Warner Baxter.

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The Warner Brothers: How They Became That Way 38:01

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Movie making in Hollywood’s heyday, but also much that applies to today, to Netflix, Amazon, and the world of streaming

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Paula Broussard and Lisa Royére discuss Eleanor Powell: Born to Dance 40:17

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Two biographers who befriended their subject and lived to tell an inspiring tale of a life well lived and a biography well written.

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Eric Laursen talks about his biography of Alex Comfort & The Joy of Sex 43:27

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Sexologist, gerontologist, novelist, poet, anarchist—just some of the work that Alex Comfort accomplished, the subject of a brilliant new biography.

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Sylvia Plath Day by Day, volume 1: Why did I do it. What’s in it? 16:08

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A podcast that reflects on how I got started on studying Sylvia Plath and why I’ve written so many books about her.

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A new biography of Betty Friedan and why it matters. 38:29

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Rachel Shteir takes us inside of making of her Jewish Lives biography of the author of The Feminine Mystique

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An Emergency Podcast: What To Do When You Don’t Have Primary Sources 11:09

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My response to an email asking me for help

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A preview of coming attractions and of my work in progress on presidential biography 9:58

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Forthcoming podcasts on new biographies of Betty Friedan, Warner Baxter, Alex Comfort, Eleanor Powell, Jack Ruby, T. S. Eliot and my working in progress on presidential biography

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FDR Unmasked: What the Biographers Missed 45:24

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My conversation with neurologist Steven Lomazow about his revelatory book about FDR and the impact of his health on biographies of Roosevelt

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Fair Use Biography 16:54

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Just remember: You are the one in charge of fair use. Don’t give your rights away.

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Finding Ursula Parrott: One biographer’s quest. 39:49

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My talk with Marsha Gordon about her sensational new biography of an important writer you probably have never heard of.

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The Different Discourses of Biographers and Subjects 24:08

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Knowing your subject may mean knowing his or her discourse, and the same can be said of reading biographies when considering the voices of biographer and subject.

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The Way I Work 25:46

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How I go about each day as a biographer, the sources I use, as I assemble my own archive and write my biography—in this case the one I’m working on now: Ronald Colman: Hollywood’s Gentleman Hero

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What It Takes To Do Biography 21:35

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Find out

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Gabriella Kelly-Davies on writing biographies of scientists and doctors and much more 43:18

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A wide ranging discussion of how to write about science and medicine in a biographical narrative, with some talk of other biographers including Kai Bird and Hermione Lee