A Life in Biography
A podcast by Carl Rollyson
222 Episodes
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Episode 22: The Case Against Biography
Published: 05/09/2020 -
Words Often Applied to Biography
Published: 29/08/2020 -
3 Questions You Should Never Ask About Biography
Published: 22/08/2020 -
Episode 19: Proposing a Biography
Published: 15/08/2020 -
Episode 18: Biography, The Historical Present, and You
Published: 08/08/2020 -
Marilyn Monroe and the Idea of Biography
Published: 01/08/2020 -
Episode 16: My Listeners Respond
Published: 25/07/2020 -
The Gaps and Bulges of Biography
Published: 18/07/2020 -
Episode 14: Who Deserves A Biography?
Published: 11/07/2020 -
Episode 13: Homage to Deirdre Bair and the Purpose of Biography
Published: 04/07/2020 -
How I Became a Biographer
Published: 27/06/2020 -
Fair Use Biography: Forget about the Don’ts in Most Cases. Just go ahead.
Published: 21/06/2020 -
The Whys and Wherefores of Documentary Biography
Published: 14/06/2020 -
Episode 9: How To Begin a Biography: The Case of William Faulkner
Published: 06/06/2020 -
Episode 8: How to End a Biography, The Case of Sylvia Plath
Published: 30/05/2020 -
Episode 7: Prefaces to Biography
Published: 24/05/2020 -
Building a Better Biography: How to Capture the Whole Man
Published: 16/05/2020 -
Sylvia Plath, Meet Rebecca West
Published: 10/05/2020 -
A Tale of Two Biographies: The Last Days of Sylvia Plath and The Life of William Faulkner
Published: 02/05/2020 -
Episode 3: Faulkner Preludes
Published: 25/04/2020
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.