Episode 266: Patricia Bosworth

Published: Oct. 18, 2017, 4:44 p.m.

b'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'