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Back to SearchJeff Copeland, "Love You Madly, Holly Woodlawn" (Feral House, 2025)
Episode 207
In Love You Madly, Holly Woodlawn (Feral House, 2025), Jeff Copeland brings readers into Hollywood in the 1980s and shares his story of writing a boo…
1 year, 8 months ago
Alisse Waterston, "My Father's Wars: Migration, Memory, and the Violence of a Century" (Routledge, 2024)
Episode 347
On the podcast today I am joined by Presidential Scholar and Professor Emerita of Anthropology at John Jay College, City University of New York, Alis…
1 year, 8 months ago
Stan Bunger, "Mornings with Madden: My Radio Life With An American Legend" (Triumph, 2024)
Episode 283
John Madden is synonymous with football. He was the television face and voice of the nation's most popular sport, the namesake of its best-selling sp…
1 year, 8 months ago
Rosemary Wakeman, "The Worlds of Victor Sassoon: Bombay, London, Shanghai, 1918–1941" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Episode 224
The 1920s and 1930s were a period of cosmopolitan globalization–and no one, perhaps, exemplified it more than Victor Sassoon, business tycoon, trader…
1 year, 8 months ago
Thanks to Life: A Biography of Violeta Parra
Episode 252
Our book is: Thanks to Life: A Biography of Violeta Parra (UNC Press, 2025), by Ericka Verba, which explores the life of Chilean musician and artist …
1 year, 8 months ago
Ann Schmiesing, "The Brothers Grimm: A Biography" (Yale UP, 2024)
Episode 271
Ann Schmiesing, Ph.D. is Professor of German and Scandinavian Studies at the University of Colorado-Boulder, with research interests spanning 18th an…
1 year, 8 months ago
Jean Strouse, "Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers" (FSG, 2024)
Episode 162
At the height of his career, Sargent painted twelve portraits of the Wertheimer family, commissioned by Asher Wertheimer, a German-Jewish London art …
1 year, 8 months ago
Elio Zarmati, "Goodbye, Tahrir Square: Coming of Age as a Jew of the Nile" (Cherry Orchard Books, 2025)
Episode 604
Goodbye, Tahrir Square: Coming of Age as a Jew of the Nile (Cherry Orchard Books, 2025) is a first-person memoir written from the standpoint of a Jew…
1 year, 8 months ago
Alexis Wolf, "Transnational Women Writers in the Wilmot Coterie, 1798-1840" (Boydell Press, 2024)
Episode 333
What were two Irish sisters doing in Russia during the early years of the nineteenth century, editing the French-language memoirs of a princess who h…
1 year, 8 months ago
Yves Rees, "Travelling to Tomorrow: How Australia's Modern Women Pioneered Our Romance with the United States" (New South, 2024)
Episode 31
A celebrity decorator with blue hair. A single mother who advised JFK in the Oval Office. A Christian nudist with a passion for almond milk.
As explor…
1 year, 8 months ago