Building Your Brand and Best Practices

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.

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

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.

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