Audio Excerpt: From Mt. Everest Into Thin Air, by Jon Krakauer
In May 1996, Jon Krakauer set out for the summit of Mount Everest, on assignment with Outside magazine, led by guide Rob Hall. Eight climbers didn't make it back down. (READ MORE)
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Jennifer Tress On Men, Memoirs, and One Editor’s Sage Advice
Jennifer Tress, author of You’re Not Pretty Enough, joins Biographile to discuss men, memoirs and one editor's brilliant advice. (READ MORE)
Bill Ayers on the Metamorphosis from Private Citizen to ‘Public Enemy’
William Ayers, famous for co-founding the Weather Underground, talks with Biographile about how he became caught in the cross-hairs of the 2008 Presidential Campaign, when his name became associated with "terrorism" by Republicans in order to delegitimize Obama's patriotism. (READ MORE)
Beth Kephart on the Impossible Trial of Listing Your ‘Favorite’ Memoirs
Beth Kephart, author of Handling the Truth, joins Biographile to divulge some of her "favorite" recent memoirs she's read, to be added to her long list of "favorite" memoirs. (READ MORE)
Jon Katz on Second Chances and How Animals Can Change Our Lives
Jon Katz, author of The Second Chance Dog, recalls how animals "have helped me to see the world anew, through my words and my photography. They have changed my life."(READ MORE)
Jane Ridley on the Vices and Virtues of King Edward ‘Bernie’ VII
Jane Ridley, author of The Heir Apparent about 'Bernie' King Edward VII, explains how the King transformed his vices into virtues to become one of England's most memorable Kings.(READ MORE)
At the Intersection of Fiction and Life: Creating Keye Street
Novelist Amanda Kyle Williams stopped by Biographile to talk about how life informs fiction.(READ MORE)
Get in the Mood for Food: Blood, Bones & Butter
If you've ever had the pleasure of dining at Prune in Manhattan's East Village, you know what a genius chef Gabrielle Hamilton is.(READ MORE)
Five Unprincessly Princesses: Match Each Lady with Her Unladylike Antics
Princesses don't always have to act like princesses. In Linda Rodriguez McRobbie's new book, Princesses Behaving Badly, she takes readers on a hilarious journey through the past, exploring the lives of some very naughty princesses. (READ MORE)
The Personality Divide: Are You More Like Plato or Aristotle?
Did you know? Your answers to such simple questions as "Dog or cat?" can determine your philosophical leanings. Here, author Arthur Herman of The Cave and the Light serves up 10 questions that will help you choose what side of the Plato-Aristotle divide you fall on. (READ MORE)
