On Truth in Memoir: A Q&A with Nancy Bachrach
Dr. Rita Jacobs is joined by Nancy Bachrach for a frank conversation about truth, memoir, and the intersection of the two.(READ MORE)
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The Craft of Writing
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)
Happy Un-Birthday, Robert Louis-Stevenson
Nancy Horan imagines a birthday spent with the man on whom she’s based her latest novel.(READ MORE)
The Paris Review Interviews Boxed Set Quiz
Befriend, or at the very least, begin to understand some of your favorite writers as they present themselves in the pages if The Paris Review Interviews, Vols. I-IV, then take this quiz to find out how well you know them.(READ MORE)
The Magnetic Force Field of The Paris Review Interviews Vols. I—IV
In "The Art of Editing" interview with Robert Gottlieb in The Paris Review Interviews (Boxed Set), Vols I-IV, writers from Joseph Heller to the biographer Robert Caro weigh in on working with the legendary editor. (READ MORE)
The Siege: Searing Testimony of the 2008 Taj Attacks
Authors of 'The Siege: 68 Hours Inside the Taj Hotel' explain to Biographile the profound impact an interview with one of the survivors had on their research process. (READ MORE)
5 Reasons to Discover Patrick Leigh Fermor
Artemis Cooper’s new biography of the writer, adventurer, and bon vivant Patrick Leigh Fermor is the first to tell the full story of his truly remarkable life. For those unfamiliar with his work, here are our five reasons to read Patrick Leigh Fermor's work -- and his life story.(READ MORE)
Jim Lehrer on the Importance of Fact in Fiction in Top Down
PBS ‘NewsHour’ host Jim Lehrer addresses the importance of truth and research when building a novel around history, as he did with his telling of the Kennedy assassination.(READ MORE)
Dani Shapiro on Still Writing and the Creative Life: A Biographile Q&A
Dani Shapiro joins us for a conversation about her new book, Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life.(READ MORE)
Family Trouble: Respect and Responsibility in the Craft of Memoir
Memoirs are simply the most public version of a question that affects us all: What influences our lives? What shapes us? In Family Trouble, a collection of essays from memoirists exploring the ethical and personal challenges in writing about one's family, editor Joy Castro tells us how she knew this would...(READ MORE)
