Newsletter Biographile - July 10, 2015

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Tell us what you think about Biographile:  Take our short survey Jul 09, 2015 08:30 am Travels with Charley: Revisiting Steinbeck’s Under-Read Memoir In 'Travels with Charley,' John Steinbeck tours the states, diagnosing America with rootlessness and spectacle.      Jul 08, 2015 03:00 pm Film Critic Richard Schickel Goes to the Movies (a Lot of Movies) Fans of classic films and Hollywood history who read Richard Schickel's memoir 'Keepers' will be well rewarded.      Jul 08, 2015 08:30 am Inside the Groundhog Day-Like Grind of Baseball Writer-illustrator Nathan Gelgud puts his spin on Barry Svrluga's 'The Grind,' a new book about baseball's endless season.      Jul 08, 2015 07:30 am Outlining a Century: The Timeless Caricatures of Al Hirschfeld Al Hirschfeld's drawings may not have been classically beautiful, but, perhaps more important, they were true.      Jul 07, 2015 12:28 pm In the News: Jolie and Netflix Present Catherine the Great, and More In the news this week a new Rick Moody memoir is in the works, Greece's financial woes drag on, and Teresa Giudice works on a one-of-a-kind prison memoir.      Jul 07, 2015 09:16 am Is the Play the Thing? David Foster Wallace on Film and Stage While Wallace's deeply literary style may be a wall too high for most filmmakers to climb, it lend itself well to playwrights.      Jul 06, 2015 01:10 pm Ten Dollar Druthers: 5 Female Scientists Who Should Join Hamilton As the USA prepares to retire Alexander Hamilton from the ten-dollar bill in favor of a still-unchosen woman, we propose five women of science for consideration.