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Podcast Episode #11 – Karin Roffman

May 10th, 2019

In this week’s episode, we interview Yale University lecturer and writer Karin Roffman, author of The Songs We Know Best: John Ashbery’s Early Life. This interview was recorded during BIO’s May 2018 annual conference in New York City. https://biographersinternational.org/wp-content/uploads/BIO_podcast_KarinRoffman.mp3 Download file | Play in new window | Duration: 20:12 | Speaker: Karin Roffman… Read More »

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