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Episode 60: The Case for Literary Prurience
Jun 5, 2021
03:52:40
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I draw on my experience of writing biographies of William Faulkner, Michael Foot, and Amy Lowell, to explain why biographies have to be about the whole person, notwithstanding the charge of literary prurience.