A conversation with Bob Batchelor about his work from John Updike to Stan Lee and much more about biography and its place in the world and in our imaginations.

Episode 51: Talking with Bob Batchelor about his book, biography—how it gets done and so much more.

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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Episode 51: Talking with Bob Batchelor about his book, biography—how it gets done and so much more.

Episode 51: Talking with Bob Batchelor about his book, biography—how it gets done and so much more.

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