Interviews with Biographers about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/biography
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The best biographical podcasts focus not on a person but on some larger theme into which that person's life ...
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We scrutinise the lives of legends that we find on the shelves of thrift shops.
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Talks and interviews about the life of biography as experienced by a biographer over forty years and fourteen biographies, dealing with subjects ranging from Sylvia Plath to William Faulkner, Marilyn Monroe to Susan Sontag, and much more.
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The Guru of Gurus - Audio Biography

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The Guru of Gurus - Audio Biography
Gurudev: The Guru of Gurus
Most biographies are stories about the lives of great men and women meant to inspire us to achieve our goals. This biography is a little different. It is without a doubt the story of one man’s extraordinary life but is also a conduit for the messages he curated throughout his life. For his life is his message. So, as you listen to this audio biography, try to hear between the lines for the messages meant for you to follow and practice. This might turn out to be a mind bending, life-altering ...
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Vinyl Biography is a podcast about your story, and music. Your discovery of vinyl, why it's important to you, and your history behind your collection.
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Lyrics Of Their Life - The Music Biography Podcast


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Lyrics Of Their Life - The Music Biography Podcast
Adam Hampton
Lyrics Of Their Life is a Music Biography and Documentary style podcast that explores the extraordinary lives, lived by those that wrote or performed the songs we know & love. Come on a journey with your host Adam Hampton as we take an in depth look through these musicians lives from their birth to the current day, or in some cases their death. Here you'll find complete biographies on legendary musicians such as Freddie Mercury, Stevie Nicks, Kurt Cobain, AC/DC, Prince, Tracy Chapman & Slash ...
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He we talk about ted bundy, his childhood, education, love life, and criminal Activity.
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Bio Cover art photo provided by Daniel Olah on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/@danesduet
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American biography is a podcast that looks at American history by examining the lives of important, if less discussed, Americans who have exerted great influence upon the nation's development. It's the American story told through American's stories. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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>Since 2009, Chris Gondek has produced this podcast interviewing biographers about their work.
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An audio biography dedicated to chronicling the life and times of Kanye Omari West. Cover Art Credit: Photo by Roberto Nickson from Pexels
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LearnOutLoud's Biography Podcast will explore the lives of notable people throughout history. Whether it be World Leaders, Political activists, spiritual luminaries, great artists or every day people, this podcast will be a showcase for their story.
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The Completely Unauthorized Biography of Myself


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The Completely Unauthorized Biography of Myself
Isiotic Mind Podcast Network
Sit back and relax and enjoy the story of an everyday guy that no one really cares much about including you. This is my first podcast so bear with me!Thanks for listening.
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Listen to this biography podcast to find out how people with disadvantages overcame their struggles and became world-famous. From Charlie Chaplin to Abraham Lincoln, Helen Keller to Marie Curie, most famous people were at a place where you are now - ground zero. Yet, they fought hard and accomplished unfathomable deeds. Listen to this podcast and find out how they did it.
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كلنا عنّا قصتنا، ومشوارنا، واحداث صارت معنا، كانت أساسية بتشكيل مين احنا، وين كنا، ووين صرنا ... سيرة كتير ذاتية من انتاج راديو حنين في هولندا، وهي سلسلة من المقابلات ، مع اشخاص عاديين، بس مش عاديين، بيحكوا قصتهم ومشوارهم والأحداث يللي صارت معهم، ليشاركونا تجاربهم ... We all have our stories, our journeys, and events that transformed our lives. They were essential in shaping who we are, where we were, and what we’ve become. A series of interviews, with ordinary, yet extra-ordinary people, te ...
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An audio biography dedicated to chronicling the life and times of Taylor Swift. Cover Art Credit: Photo by Roberto Nickson from Pexels
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This is a short video biography of myself, besides music, plays, poems, and bible verses. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jeremiah-semien2/support
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Automatic Biography: Queasy Memoirs is a serialised reading of a novel by one, David Goodchild. The following signal was intercepted and decoded by a satellite put into orbit by the Japanese cat food conglomerate Pusigut 25. The message warped, snarled and exploded out of the cylinders and into the wet brain of a young man working on a waste incineration plant in North London. Through his hands, this message reached textual climax. Here it is. Visit us at http://automaticbiography.com
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From a series of short biographies written by W.A. Peters this is a fourty-seven minute look at our nations 7th president.
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Traveling with Maddie - Episode 1 :Travel Biography


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Traveling with Maddie - Episode 1 :Travel Biography
Traveling with Maddie - Episod
A podcast that talks about travel and study abroad from my perspective.
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From a series of short biographies written by W.A. Peters this is a twenty-three minute look at our nations 5th president.
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From a series of short biographies written by W.A. Peters this is a fifteen minute look at our nations 11th president.
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In this podcast we interview expats on their experience of living in a different environment and cultural context to their own. Guests are professionals or people with a craft that they are successful in. They also delve into and give us a view of how they navigate their professional lives. We also discuss how they manage to thrive in their personal lives in an uncertain world.
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Popography: The Pop Culture Biography Podcast


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Popography: The Pop Culture Biography Podcast
Popography
Popography (pop culture + biography) is a podcast born out of my interest in the relationship between our identities and the pop culture we love. Each episode features a conversation with someone I find inspiring, and I hope you'll feel the same. We'll discuss how music, television shows, movies, art pieces, and other media shape our personal journeys and professional development. So join me for these stories and let's learn how to appreciate and exchange passions.
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Bitterhoney Biography book You Have Cancer


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Bitterhoney Biography book You Have Cancer
Naomi Hannah
Prepping you for my upcoming release of my biography called you have cancer coming out in March 2019! Author,singer,artist poet,Welcome to bitterhoney radio where I keep it real. A 27 year old diagnosed with brain cancer at the tender state of budding excitement adventure and vitality. And totally bed ridden for 3 years at 32 totally incapable of doing anything for myself for 3 years but rising above a 6 month death prognosis to being a inspiration to the world of triumph over defeat and ris ...
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True Stories from History and Biography by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 - 1864)

In writing this ponderous tome, the author's desire has been to describe the eminent characters and remarkable events of our annals, in such a form and style, that the YOUNG might make acquaintance with them of their own accord. For this purpose, while ostensibly relating the adventures of a Chair, he has endeavored to keep a distinct and unbroken thread of authentic history. The Chair is made to pass from one to another of those personages, of whom he thought it most desirable for the young ...
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Biography of Marilyn Monroe, One of the world's biggest and most enduring glamour symbols


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Biography of Marilyn Monroe, One of the world's biggest and most enduring glamour symbols
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Actress Marilyn Monroe overcame a difficult childhood to become one of the world's biggest and most enduring sex symbols. She died of a drug overdose in 1962 at the age of 36.
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A series of lectures detailing the life, works, struggle, and call of the late scholar of Yemen, Shaykh Muqbil ibn Haadee al-Waadi'ee, may Allaah have Mercy on him, as presented by an American student of the shaykh, Ustadh Abul-Hasan Malik Akhdar. This series of lectures was held at Masjid al-Awwal in the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) on 1438.01.14 and 1438.01.15, which corresponds to October 14 and 15, 2016.
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"The life of a wild animal always has a tragic end," as Ernest Thompson Seton said. This is the story of Metitsi Wahb, born a playful cub, orphaned young by the murder of his mother, his brothers and sister, raising himself surrounded by enemies, and growing to the fiercest creature anywhere in his vast range -- though showing himself a gentleman in the Yellowstone National Park. And finally, he is laid low by a smaller, more cunning enemy, and defeated in the end by age and injury. "The lif ...
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From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Naomi Osaka (大坂 なおみ, Ōsaka Naomi, Japanese pronunciation: [oːsaka naomi], born October 16, 1997) is a Japanese professional tennis player. She has been ranked No. 1 by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) and is the first Asian player to hold the top ranking in singles. She is a four-time Grand Slam singles champion, and is the reigning champion at the US Open and the Australian Open. Her seven titles on the WTA Tour also include two at the Premier Mandat ...
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Welcome to our podcast where we discuss and deliberate over memoirs and biographies found in thrift shops. This is a great way to do things as we are not choosing who to read about. We may not be fans of the person, we may never have heard of the person and we never know who we are going to find next... There are only 2 rules to this podcast. The b…
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A Life in Biography


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What memory tells us about biography and doesn’t.
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A continuation of the previous podcast about the variables in understanding a writer and his world.
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New Books in Biography


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James H. Meyer, "Red Star over the Black Sea: Nazim Hikmet and His Generation" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Nâzım Hikmet (1902-1963) is best known as a poet and communist whose daring flight by motorboat from Turkey to the Eastern Bloc captured international headlines in 1951. One of the most important poets to have written in the Turkish language, Nâzım Hikmet's dramatic life story is fascinating in its own right, but also intersects with the story of t…
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गुरुदेव एक ऐसे महागुरु थे जिन्होंने न केवल अंधकार को दूर किया बल्कि हमें भी ऐसा करना सिखाया। गुरुओं के गुरु की ऑडियो जीवनी के समापन पॉडकास्ट में, हमने उस महान ऋषि पर प्रकाश डाला है जो इतने सारे लोगों के लिए प्रकाशस्तंभ थे और रहेंगे। गुरुदेव ऑनलाइन गुरुओं के गुरु - महागुरु की ऑडियो बायोग्राफी प्रस्तुत करता है। यदि इस पॉडकास्ट से संबंधित आपका कोई सवा…
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Lyrics Of Their Life - The Music Biography Podcast


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EP 26: Billie Eilish (Part 3) - Happier Than Ever
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In part 3 of the Billie Eilish story we take an in depth look at Billie Eilish's 2nd studio album titled Happier Than Ever as we examine the meaning behind the songs Your Power, Happier Than Ever, Therefore I Am, Male Fantasy, NDA and Not My Responsibility among many others. We also learn about Billie's relationship struggles, how she was able to f…
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Understand that when you’re OVER attached to anything, your results are worse, not better. Especially with love and relationships. This video is for those of you who want to manifest love or relationship into your life. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/biography/message…
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A Life in Biography


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The nature of literary power, who holds it, and how the biographer should understand it.
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Samuel R. Delany presents the writer as biographical subject and what it is the biographer needs to know about literary world and how reputations are made. But first a discussion of a movie, The Wife
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Perry Mehrling, "Money and Empire: Charles P. Kindleberger and the Dollar System" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Charles Kindleberger ranks as one of the twentieth century's best known and most influential international economists. This book traces the evolution of his thinking in the context of a 'key-currency' approach to the rise of the dollar system, here revealed as the indispensable framework for global economic development since World War II. Unlike mo…
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Monica Macias, "Black Girl from Pyongyang: In Search of My Identity" (Duckworth, 2023)
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Monica Macias, the youngest daughter of Equatorial Guinea’s first president at just seven years old, lands in Pyongyang, North Korea in 1979. Her father had sent her to the country to study, but what was meant to be a shorter visit grew to a decade-long stay when her father was ousted in a coup. Monica stays in Pyongyang until 1994, when she gradua…
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इमोशनल होना आम बात है। भावनाओं को अभिनय करना कितना आसान है? अभिनेता एक क्लैपर की क्लिक पर रो सकते हैं। सामान्य जीवन में यह कितना आसान है? भावनाओं का प्रदर्शन करना गुरुदेव ने कैसे सीखा? क्या हम उस पर एक डिट्टो कर सकते हैं? भावशून्य होना हमारे मन को कैसे स्थिर कर सकता है? सूत्र में किस्सों को उठाएं - भावनाओं को भावहीन रूप से बजाना। गुरुदेव ऑनलाइन गुर…
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Ashok Gopal, "A Part Apart: The Life and Thought of B. R. Ambedkar" (Navayana, 2023)
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Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891–1956) is perhaps the most iconised historical figure in India. Born into a caste deemed ‘unfit for human association’, he came to define what it means to be human. How and why did Ambedkar, who revered and cited the Gita till the 1930s, turn against Hinduism? What were his quarrels with Gandhi and Savarkar? Why did he c…
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Welcome to our podcast where we discuss and deliberate over memoirs and biographies found in thrift shops. This is a great way to do things as we are not choosing who to read about. We may not be fans of the person, we may never have heard of the person and we never know who we are going to find next... There are only 2 rules to this podcast. The b…
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जब गुरुदेव की चेतना शिवभावना के स्तर तक पहुँची तो वे चलता-फिरता शिवालय बन गए। गुरुदेव ऑनलाइन गुरुओं के गुरु - महागुरु की ऑडियो बायोग्राफी प्रस्तुत करता है। यदि इस पॉडकास्ट से संबंधित आपका कोई सवाल है या फिर आपको आध्यात्मिक मार्गदर्शन की आवश्यकता है, तो हमें लिखें - answers@gurudevonline.com. आप गुरुदेव की जिंदगी और उनकी विचारधारा के बारे में इस वेब…
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एक पारिवारिक इंसान, एक सरकारी कर्मचारी, एक उपचारक, अध्यात्म का एक जानकार, एक गुरु, एक महागुरु, इन सभी भूमिकाओं को एक साथ निभाना कोई आसान काम नहीं था। गुरुदेव की मौजूदगी एक क़िस्म की आध्यात्मिक लॉटरी थी, लेकिन उनके लिए शारीरिक रूप में होना बहुत कष्टप्रद था। गुरुदेव ऑनलाइन गुरुओं के गुरु - महागुरु की ऑडियो बायोग्राफी प्रस्तुत करता है। यदि इस पॉडकास्ट…
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Learning for Liberation: The Life and Legacy of Paulo Freire
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Paulo Freire offers activists and academics everywhere a lesson in what it means to be a radical intellectual. He is known as the founder of critical pedagogy, which asks teachers and learners to understand and resist their own oppression. His subversive books have been banned and burned in many countries, including his native Brazil, where the mil…
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Joel Lafayette Fletcher III, "With Hawks and Angels: Episodes from a Southern Life" (UP of Mississippi, 2023)
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In this episode of Queer Voices I talk to Joel Lafayette Fletcher III about his book With Hawks and Angels: Episodes from a Southern Life (UP of Mississippi, 2023) About the Author: Joel Lafayette Fletcher, III served as an officer in the US Navy and lived abroad for a dozen years. He co-owned a language school in Florence, Italy, and worked in the…
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इंद्रियां आध्यात्मिक विकास में बाधक क्यों हैं? जानिए कोई उन्हें कैसे दूर करता है? पता लगाइये गुरुदेव ने उन्हें कैसे चकमा दिया? क्या आप भी उनको चकमा दे सकते हैं? जानिये इस पॉडकास्ट में गुरुदेव ऑनलाइन गुरुओं के गुरु - महागुरु की ऑडियो बायोग्राफी प्रस्तुत करता है। यदि इस पॉडकास्ट से संबंधित आपका कोई सवाल है या फिर आपको आध्यात्मिक मार्गदर्शन की आवश्यकत…
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सिर्फ़ इसलिए कि गुरुदेव सभी जीवों के साथ आत्मिक समानता महसूस कर सकते थे, इसका मतलब यह नहीं था कि बाकी लोग भी ऐसा कर सकते थे। हम उस तरह से सोच सकें उस के लिए हमारे दिमाग़ को सक्रिय करने और हमे प्रभावित कर पाने में उन्हें सालों लग गए। वे वाकई अपने काम में माहिर थे। गुरुदेव ऑनलाइन गुरुओं के गुरु - महागुरु की ऑडियो बायोग्राफी प्रस्तुत करता है। यदि इस प…
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What does it mean to be powerful in the literary world, and in what sense should the biographer take it seriously?
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Welcome to our podcast where we discuss and deliberate over memoirs and biographies found in thrift shops. This is a great way to do things as we are not choosing who to read about. We may not be fans of the person, we may never have heard of the person and we never know who we are going to find next... There are only 2 rules to this podcast. The b…
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Muse, Odalisque, Handmaiden: A Girl's Life in the Incredible String Band
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Damon Kruskowski, author of Ways of Hearing and The New Analog, previously member of Galaxie 500 and currently a member of Damon & Naomi interviews Rose Simpson about her book Muse, Odalisque, Handmaiden. Rose is an English former musician. Between 1968 and 1971, she was a member of the Incredible String Band, with whom she sang and played bass gui…
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Christopher H. Evans, "Do Everything: The Biography of Frances Willard" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Frances Willard (1839-1898) was one of the most prominent American social reformers of the late nineteenth century. As the long-time president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), Willard built a national and international movement of women that campaigned for prohibition, women's rights, economic justice, and numerous other social jus…
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America & Democracy Ep. 5: Brandon Terry on MLK
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In the final episode of this series, Brandon Terry, political theorist and African American Studies scholar at Harvard discusses the life and work of Martin Luther King Jr. Terry is the editor of Fifty Years Since MLK, published in 2018 by MIT Press and Boston Review and co-edited To Shape a New World, alongside Tommie Shelby, which was published i…
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Ithell Colquhoun: Genius of The Fern Loved Gully
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Tai Shani (Turner Prize winning artist, educator and author of Our Fatal Magic) and Amy Hale (anthropologist, folklorist, and writer) discuss the work of artist, occultist and writer Ithell Colquhoun to celebrate the publication of Amy’s book Ithell Colquhoun: Genius of The Fern Loved Gully. This book offers the first in-depth biographical study of…
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Catherine Russell, "The Cinema of Barbara Stanwyck: Twenty-Six Short Essays on a Working Star" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
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From The Lady Eve, to The Big Valley, Barbara Stanwyck played parts that showcased her multidimensional talents but also illustrated the limits imposed on women in film and television. Catherine Russell’s A to Z consideration of the iconic actress analyzes twenty-six facets of Stanwyck and the America of her times. Russell examines Stanwyck’s work …
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Pharmacological Histories Ep. 4: Andy Roberts on LSD's Cosmic Courier
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Michael Hollingshead, the man who turned Timothy Leary onto LSD, managed to fundamentally influenced modern drug culture whilst remaining virtually anonymous in popular culture at large. In this episode, biographer Andy Roberts talks us through the life of a key character in psychedelic history. Of all the figures associated with the history of LSD…
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Why should we study Robert E. Lee? Why did he make the fateful decision to betray his country? How should we judge Robert E. Lee? Allen C. Guelzo, Director of the James Madison Program's Initiative on Politics and Statesmanship, joins Madison's Notes to answer these questions and others. Guezlo is the author of Robert E. Lee: A Life. Learn more abo…
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Thrift Shop Biography


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Mötley Crüe: The World's Most Notorious Rock Band
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Welcome to our podcast where we discuss and deliberate over memoirs and biographies found in thrift shops. This is a great way to do things as we are not choosing who to read about. We may not be fans of the person, we may never have heard of the person and we never know who we are going to find next... There are only 2 rules to this podcast. The b…
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Matthew Jagel, "Khmer Nationalist: Sơn Ngc Thành, the CIA, and the Transformation of Cambodia" (Northern Illinois UP, 2023)
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Khmer Nationalist: Sơn Ngc Thành, the CIA, and the Transformation of Cambodia (Northern Illinois UP, 2023) is a political history of Cambodia from World War II until 1975, examining the central role of Sõn Ngoc Thành. The book is a story of nationalist movements, political intrigue, coup attempts, war, and American intelligence operations. Matthew …
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Dylan Thomas and why biography matters, with a cameo performance by Marilyn Monroe
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The correspondence with Samuel R. Delany continues, with many digressions, but all of them pertaining to biography and the work it can accomplish
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New Books in Biography


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Kim E. Nielsen, "Money, Marriage, and Madness: The Life of Anna Ott" (U Illinois Press, 2020)
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Anna Ott died in the Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane in 1893. She had enjoyed status and financial success first as a physician's wife and then as the only female doctor in Madison. Throughout her first marriage, attempts to divorce her abusive second husband, and twenty years of institutionalization, Ott determinedly shaped her own life. K…
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Bill Steigerwald, "30 Days a Black Man: The Forgotten Story That Exposed the Jim Crow South" (Lyons Press, 2017)
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The dangerous, trailblazing work of a white journalist and black leader who struck a shocking early blow against legal segregation In 1948, most white people in the North had no idea how unjust and unequal daily life was for 10 million African Americans living in the Jim Crow South. Then, Ray Sprigle, a famous white journalist from Pittsburgh, went…
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Benjamin Balint, "Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History" (Norton, 2023)
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The twentieth-century artist Bruno Schulz was born an Austrian, lived as a Pole, and died a Jew. First a citizen of the Habsburg monarchy, he would, without moving, become the subject of the West Ukrainian People’s Republic, the Second Polish Republic, the USSR, and, finally, the Third Reich. Yet to use his own metaphor, Schulz remained throughout …
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Harry V. Jaffa and the Fight for America: A Conversation with Glenn Ellmers
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What did Aristotle and Shakespeare mean to Harry Jaffa, and what might they mean to America? Can extremism be prudent? What is the nature of the crisis facing the West today? Glenn Ellmers, senior fellow with the Claremont Institute, joins the show to discuss his new book, The Soul of Politics: Harry V. Jaffa and the Fight for America. Learn more a…
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Thrift Shop Biography


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Liberace - Behind the Candelabra with Scott Thorson
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Welcome to our podcast where we discuss and deliberate over memoirs and biographies found in thrift shops. This is a great way to do things as we are not choosing who to read about. We may not be fans of the person, we may never have heard of the person and we never know who we are going to find next... There are only 2 rules to this podcast. The b…
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Why a biographer would go ahead when the subject is fiercely resistant
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The Sontag saga continues
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Jonathan Eig, "King: A Life" (FSG, 2023)
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Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig's King: A Life (FSG, 2023) is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.--and the first to include recently declassified FBI files. In this revelatory new portrait of the preacher and activist who shook the world, the bestselling biographer gives us …
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Chad Williams, "The Wounded World: W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War" (FSG, 2023)
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When W. E. B. Du Bois, believing in the possibility of full citizenship and democratic change, encouraged African Americans to "close ranks" and support the Allied cause in World War I, he made a decision that would haunt him for the rest of his life. Seeking both intellectual clarity and personal atonement, for more than two decades Du Bois attemp…
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Francis Xavier Clooney, "Saint Joseph in South India: Poetry, Mission and Theology in Costanzo Gioseffo Beschi's Tēmpāvaṇi" (Brill, 2022)
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Costanzo Gioseffo Beschi was an Italian Jesuit who worked in South India from 1710 to 1747. A brilliant scholar of Tamil, his works include hymns, instructions for catechists, and a robust defense of the Catholic missionary approach. His most famous work is Tēmpāvaṇi (The Unfading Garland), an epic re-telling of the early life of Jesus, set in the …
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Edgar Gomez, "High-Risk Homosexual: A Memoir" (Soft Skull, 2022)
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Writing Latinos, from Public Books, is a new podcast featuring interviews with Latino (a/x/e) authors discussing their books and how their writing contributes to the ever-changing conversation about the meanings of latinidad. For this episode, we caught up with Edgar Gomez on his memoir High-Risk Homosexual (Soft Skull, 2022). The conversation with…
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John McCannon, "Nicholas Roerich: The Artist Who Would Be King" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2023)
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Dr. John McCannon's new biography of Russian artist, mystic, and all-around fascinating character Nicholas Roerich follows its subject from his artistic beginnings in the 1880's to the end of his life in India, in the 1940's. While not generally a household name in the English-speaking world, Roerich's influence punches over its weight. Roerich wor…
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Thrift Shop Biography


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Lady Diana Spencer: The People's Queen
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Welcome to our podcast where we discuss and deliberate over memoirs and biographies found in thrift shops. This is a great way to do things as we are not choosing who to read about. We may not be fans of the person, we may never have heard of the person and we never know who we are going to find next... There are only 2 rules to this podcast. The b…
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Brian Domitrovic, "The Emergence of Arthur Laffer: The Foundations of Supply-Side Economics in Chicago and Washington, 1966–1976" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
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The Emergence of Arthur Laffer: The Foundations of Supply-Side Economics in Chicago and Washington, 1966–1976 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021) explores the origins of Arthur Laffer’s economic theories and how they became a part of mainstream economic policy. Utilizing interviews and archival material, Laffer’s life is traced from his early education thro…
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A Life in Biography


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Samuel R. Delany refuses to give up on Susan Sontag’s biographers
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The seventh part of what is turning out to be a saga—listened to its entirety it amounts to a class on biography that you can take for free.
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A Life in Biography


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Seamus Heaney in America with biographer Ed O’Shea
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A talk about Ed O’Shea’s recent book and what matters about Seamus Heaney’s experience in America
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Ian Hembrow, "Ralph Edwards: Rare Events--The Inside Story of a Worldwide Quest for Safer Medicines" (Springer, 2023)
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Medical treatments designed to help people can also be harmful or fatal. Around 2.5 million people die this way each year. So if any kind of medicine makes someone unwell, they or their doctor should report it. Those reports, from nearly every country in the world, go to the Uppsala Monitoring Centre (UMC) in Sweden. As the Centre’s first director,…
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Annie Zaleski, "Lady Gaga: Applause" (Palazzo Editions, 2022)
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As one of the world's best-selling musicians, Lady Gaga has set the musical bar high. Since her debut album, The Fame (2008), she has sold more than 124 million records and scooped numerous awards, including twelve Grammy Awards and eighteen MTV Music Video Awards. Yet she is much more than a musician. At the helm of the Haus of Gaga--a close-knit …
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I've Read 20,000 Quotes and Picked The Top 200 Of Them [biography]
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I've had to read a lot of quotes. Indeed a lot. This episode is a collection of the most powerful quotes that have changed my life for the better and I hope that at least one of them can change yours.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/biography/message
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The HARSH Truth about Sigma Females [biography]
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A sigma female is an independent and sometimes misunderstood woman. She is not afraid to go against the grain. However, she is aware of societal norms and pressure, and chooses to do exactly what she wants to do. She is similar to the sigma male as she is happy to be alone and does not need other people to validate her. Being a sigma female is amaz…
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The HARSH Truth about Sigma Males [biography]
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Why Sigma Males Have No Friends (The HARSH Truth) To Sigma males, the word “friend” is honorable. Someone they call a friend is very special to them. They are someone they let into their private and deep inner world. If you enjoyed this podcast, hit the follow button and make sure to comment! I really do appreciate your support. 🙏Other men can usua…
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