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

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?

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

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

This won’t take long.

Advice you may not want to take.

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

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

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.

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

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