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

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A Life in Biography

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

A Life in Biography

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

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

The Existential Loneliness of the Long Distance Biographer

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

Biography in the Prison House of Modernism, Part 2

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

Mary Dearborn discusses her new biography of Carson McCullers

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

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

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