Patricia Bosworth is a journalist and biographer. Her latest book is The Men in My Life.\n\n \u201cThe [acting] rejections are hellish and ghastly. At least they were to me. And I got tired of being rejected so much and also tired of not being able to control my life. And as soon as I became a writer, I had this control, I felt more active, more energized. But it was a decision that took a long time coming.\u201d\n\nThanks to MailChimp, Squarespace, and Heaven's Gate for sponsoring this week's episode.\n@p_bosworth\npbosworth.com\nBosworth on Longform\n[00:05] Heaven's Gate\n[00:25] Snap Judgement\n[01:25] The Fest Presents: The Longform Podcast with special guest Zoe Chace\n[02:30] "Some Mother's Boy" (Atavist \u2022 Oct 2017)\n[3:10] Diane Arbus: A Biography (Afred A. Knopf \u2022 1984)\n[03:10] Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (River Road Entertainment \u2022 2006)\n[3:20] The Men in My Life (Harper \u2022 2017)\n[5:55] Strumpet Wind (Gertrude Bosworth Crum \u2022 Covici Friede Publishers \u2022 1938)\n[6:20] The Tempest (William Shakespeare \u2022 Simon & Schuster \u2022 2004)\n[07:50] Colete\u2019s Archive at The New York Times\n[09:40] Bosworth\u2019s Archive at Playbill\n[09:45] The Nun\u2019s Story (Warner Brothers \u2022 1959)\n[14:15] Stoner\n[16:00] "To Vonnegut, the Hero Is the Man Who Refuses to Kill" (New York Times \u2022 Oct 1970)\n[18:05] Montgomery Clift: A Biography (Harcourt \u2022 1978)\n[20:45] Marlon Brando: A Biography (Viking \u2022 2001)\n[20:55] Jane Fonda: The Private Life of a Public Woman (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt \u2022 2011)\n[22:30] "New Documents" (The Museum of Modern Art \u2022 1967)\n[24:10] Harold Nemerov\u2019s Archive at The Poetry Foundation\n\n\xa0\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices