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March 26th, 2021
Audio PlayerIn this week’s episode, we interview Stephen Heyman, author of The Planter of Modern Life: Louis Bromfield and the Seeds of a Food Revolution, published April 14, 2020, by W.W. Norton […]
March 19th, 2021
Audio PlayerIn this week’s episode, we interview Hilary Holladay, author of The Power of Adrienne Rich: A Biography, published November 17, 2020, by Nan A. Talese. Holladay was interviewed in her home in […]
March 5th, 2021
Audio PlayerIn this week’s episode, we interview three-time biographer David Michaelis, author of Eleanor, a new single-volume biography of first lady Eleanor Roosevelt released by Simon and Schuster in October 2020. Michaelis […]
February 19th, 2021
Audio PlayerIn this week’s episode, we interview Leslie Brody, author of Sometimes You Have to Lie: The Life and Times of Louise Fitzhugh, Renegade Author of Harriet the Spy, published in December, […]
February 5th, 2021
Audio PlayerWe’re back…and we wish nothing but the best for you in 2021! In this week’s episode, we interview Philip Clark, author of Dave Brubeck: A Life in Time, a biography of jazz […]
December 11th, 2020
Audio PlayerThis week we feature an archived presentation from the City University of New York’s Leon Levy Center for Biography. In October 2013, distinguished historian and two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Levering Lewis […]
December 6th, 2020
Audio PlayerThis week we feature an archived interview from the City University of New York’s Leon Levy Center for Biography. Author Silvana Paternostro was interviewed by editor Cristobal Pena about her book, Solitude & […]
November 20th, 2020
Audio PlayerThis week we feature an interview with veteran journalist Jonathan Alter. Alter’s fourth presidential biography, His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, A Life, was published by Simon & Schuster in October 2020. It’s the first full-length biography of the […]
