October 25th, 2024
This week we interview Benjamin Taylor, author of
Chasing Bright Medusas: The Life of Willa Cather. This biography of Cather, a celebrated American novelist, was published in November 2023 by Viking.
In 2021, Taylor received an award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. One of his previous memoirs,
The Hue and Cry at Our House, received the 2018 Los Angeles Times/Christopher Isherwood Prize, and it was named a
New York Times Editors’…
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February 9th, 2024
This week we interview David Waldstreicher, a history professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center and author of his latest book,
The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: a Poet’s Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence, published by Farrar Strauss and Grioux in March 2023. Waldstreicher’s other books includer
Slavery’s Constitution: From Revolution to Ratification, and
Runaway America: Benjamin Franklin, Slavery,
and the American Revolution. He also has written for
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September 17th, 2021
In this week’s episode we interview Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina, Professor of Biography and English at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Working with 19 other authors, her book of edited biographies,
Britain’s Black Past, was published by Liverpool University Press in March 2020. She also has published nine other books, including
Carrington: A Life; Black London: Life Before Emancipation; Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Unexpected Life of the Author of The Secret Garden; and
Mr. and …
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August 30th, 2019
This week’s episode features highlights of a panel from the 2019 BIO Conference, “Fact and Speculation,” with moderator James McGrath Morris and panelists Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina, Michael Hainey, and Stacy Schiff.
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Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina,
James McGrath Morris,
Michael Hainey,
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