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Podcast #197 – David Greenberg

This veteran author and Rutgers University journalism professor speaks with BIO member Kevin McGruder about his latest book, John Lewis: A Life. It was published by Simon and Schuster in October 2024 and supported by grants from the Guggenheim Foundation

November 29, 2024 28:46 Speakers: David Greenberg, John A. Farrell

Podcast #196 – Carl Rollyson

Veteran biographer and emeritus Baruch College journalism professor Carl Rollyson talks about his latest book, Sylvia Plath Day by Day, Volume 2, published by the University Press of Mississippi in August 2024. Rollyson’s impressive literary output—of mo

November 22, 2024 30:47 Speakers: Carl Rollyson, John A. Farrell

Podcast #195 – Heath Hardage Lee

Award-winning historian, curator and biographer, Heath Hardage Lee, talks about her latest book, The Mysterious Mrs. Nixon: The Life and Times of Washington’s Most Private First Lady. It was published by St. Martin’s Press in August 2024. Lee’s work ha

November 15, 2024 31:05 Speakers: Heath Lee, John A. Farrell

Podcast #194 – Ken Burns

Celebrated documentary filmmaker and Television Hall of Fame inductee Ken Burns, talks about his latest film, Leonardo da Vinci. It will air nationwide on PBS network stations on November 18 and 19, 2024. Burns has directed and produced such acclaimed hi

November 8, 2024 37:49 Speakers: John A. Farrell, Ken Burns

Podcast #193 – Susan Blumberg-Kason

Author Susan Blumberg-Kason talks about her latest book, Bernardine’s Shanghai Salon: The Story of the Doyenne of Old China, published by Post Hill Press in November 2023. Blumberg-Kason has also authored Good Chinese Wife: A Love Affair with China Gone

November 1, 2024 27:50 Speakers: Jennifer Skoog

Podcast #192 – Benjamin Taylor

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 Acad

October 25, 2024 23:21 Speakers: Benjamin Taylor, Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina

Podcast #191 – Patti Hartigan

This week we interview Patti Hartigan, award-winning journalist and author of August Wilson: A Life. This biography, Hartigan’s first, about the legendary, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright who powerfully and poetically chronicled African American life i

October 18, 2024 29:35 Speakers: Patti Hartigan, Sonja Williams

Podcast #190 – Fergus M. Bordewich

This week we interview veteran independent writer, historian, and journalist, Fergus M. Bordewich. His latest book, Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction, was published in October 2023 by Knopf. Bordewich has written eight prev

October 11, 2024 27:33 Speakers: Fergus M. Bordewich, John A. Farrell

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