November 17th, 2023
This week we interview Mary Ann Caws, Distinguished Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature, English and French at the Graduate School of the City University of New York. In her latest book,
Mina Loy: Apology of Genius, published by Reaktion Books in July 2022, Caws explores Loy’s flamboyant life and avant-garde artistry. Caws has authored several books, including
The Modern Art Cookbook and
Creative Gatherings: Meeting Places of Modernism, both published by Reaktion Books. Mary…
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October 20th, 2023
This week we feature biographer and cultural historian Paul Fisher. His most recent award-winning biography,
The Grand Affair: John Singer Sargent in His World, was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in November 2022. Fisher currently serves as an American Studies Professor at Wellesley College; he has also taught at Yale, Wesleyan, Boston University, and Harvard. His group biography,
House of Wits: An Intimate Portrait of the James Family (Henry Holt and Co., 2008)…
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September 29th, 2023
This week we interview Kerri K. Greenidge, the Mellon Assistant Professor in the Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora at Tufts University. The author most recently of
The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in An American Family (Liveright, November 2022), Greenidge also wrote
Black Radical: The Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter (Liveright, 2019), one of
The New York Times’ top picks of 2019. She is also the recipient of the…
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September 8th, 2023
This week we interview Sung-Yoon Lee, author of
The Sister: The Extraordinary Story of Kim Yo Jong, the Most Powerful Woman in North Korea, published in America by Public Affairs in September of this year. A fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Lee has taught Korean history at the Fletcher School, Tufts University. Sung-Yoon Lee is interviewed by BIO member Jennifer Skoog.
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June 2nd, 2023
This week we interview Aidan Levy whose latest book,
Saxophone Colossus: The Life and Music of Sonny Rollins, was published in December 2022 by Hachette Books. Levy also authored,
Dirty Blvd.: The Life and Music of Lou Reed, and he edited
Patti Smith on Patti Smith: Interviews and Encounters. A former Leon Levy Center for Biography Fellow, his writing has appeared in
The New York Times,
The Village Voice,
JazzTimes, and …
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April 14th, 2023
This week we interview Helen Rappaport, the British author of sixteen highly regarded biographies. Her latest book,
In Search of Mary Seacole: The Making of a Black Cultural Icon and Humanitarian, was published by Pegasus Books in September 2022. Rappaport has been a full-time historian and writer for more than twenty-three years, and in 2003 she discovered and purchased an 1869 portrait of Mary Seacole. The painting now hangs in the National Portrait Gallery and…
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March 31st, 2023
This week we interview Lydia Moland,
professor of philosophy at Colby College and author of
Lydia Maria Child: A Radical American Life, published by in the University of Chicago Press in October 2022.
This biography explores the life of one of the nineteenth century’s most courageous abolitionists. Moland’s work on Lydia Maria Child has appeared in the
Paris Review, the
Boston Globe, the
Washington Post, the
American Scholar,
and on National…
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March 17th, 2023
This week we interview Hilary A. Hallett, the Mendelson Family Professor, Director of American Studies, and Associate Professor of History at Columbia University. Her latest book is Inventing
The Hollywood It Girl: How Elinor Glyn Created the Modern Romance and Conquered Early Hollywood, published by Liveright, in July 2022. Hallett is also the author of
Go West, Young Women! The Rise of Early Hollywood, and she has written for the
Los Angeles Times…
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