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New Books in Biography & Memoir

Booking Overview

An interview-based academic book show focused on biography, memoir, and historical lives, it typically features authors and scholars discussing recently published books with knowledgeable interviewers. Agencies could credibly pitch biographers, historians, literary scholars, subject-matter experts, and established memoirists with a new book and substantive original research; booking difficulty is medium.

Metrics

Episodes: 2059

Frequency: Multiple_weekly

Rating: 3.8/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Neutral

Location: USA

Contact Information

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Host

Miranda Melcher - Researcher specializing in post-conflict military integration, treaty negotiation, and implementation in civil-war contexts, with a focus on Angola and Mozambique.

Marc Katz - Rabbi and interviewer focused on conversations about Jewish identity, history, culture, and public life.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium
Typical Credentials:  
Authors of recently published biographies, memoirs, or scholarly books, supported by deep subject expertise, original research, an established creative career, or a university or research affiliation.
Required Achievements:  
Recently published a substantive book, Conducted original archival or scholarly research, Held a university, research, or professional subject-matter role, Built an established literary, artistic, or academic career, Received notable readership or bestseller recognition

Recent Guest Discussions

Robyn Hitchcock - His Memoir Stranded In The Future, The Formation Of The Soft Boys, His Early Creative Life, Musical Influences, And Obsessive Behavior.

Brian Jay Jones - George Lucas's Life And Career, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Pixar, Lucasfilm, Industrial Light & Magic, And His Influence On Filmmaking Technology.

Patricia A. Billingsley - Lorca's Relationship With Philip Cummings, The Suppression Of Their Relationship By Scholars, And Its Influence On Poet In New York.

Jane Draycott - Fulvia's Political And Military Power In Ancient Rome, Her Marriages And Family, And The Historical Distortion Of Her Reputation.

Jessica Riskin - Jean-baptiste Lamarck's Life And Evolutionary Theories, The Invention Of Biology, Scientific Debates About Agency, And The Historical Consequences Of Views About Living Systems.

Recent Topics

Biography, Memoir, History, Literature, Science

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
New Books in Biography & Memoir
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Ian Brown, "70: A Diary of My Seventy-First Year" (Penguin Random House, 2026)

September 10, 2026

In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with award-winning author and journalist Ian Brown about his memoir, 70: A Diary of My Seventy-First Year (Penguin Random House, 2026).  Ian Brown, award-winning author of The Boy in the Moon and the memoir Sixty, now recounts his daily reckoning with the milestone age of seventy. Fearlessly candid, often funny and relentlessly real, Brown asks the terrifying questions we all have about growing old, even when he doesn’t want to k...

Charlie Walker, "On Thin Ice: An Explorer's Memoir of Siberia, Surveillance and Survival" (Duckworth, 2026)

September 10, 2026

In February 2022, British explorer Charlie Walker flew to Siberia's Sakha Republic to walk a thousand miles up frozen rivers to the Arctic Ocean, through Earth's coldest inhabited region. Days later, Russia invaded Ukraine. Tamping down his concerns, he continued on his journey, meeting indigenous people and ice road truckers along the way.  Yet his trip ended in fear and confusion, with an arrest and a month in a Yakutsk jail, the story of his new book, On Thin Ice: An Explorer's ...

Ben Westhoff ed.,"Lives Interrupted: The Fentanyl Tragedy" (Arsenault Family Foundation, 2026)

September 09, 2026

An account of the North American fentanyl crisis told through stories and photographs of its victims Lives Interrupted: The Fentanyl Tragedy (Arsenault Family Foundation, 2026), edited by Ben Westhoff, author of Fentanyl, Inc., is a different kind of drug book. Part biography, part coffee-table photo collection, it seeks to put a human face on a public health crisis too often discussed in statistics and numbers. Westhoff's book profiles 80 people, 76 victims of fentanyl overd...

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