Newsletter Biographile - July 24, 2015

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Tell us what you think about Biographile:  Take our short survey Jul 23, 2015 08:00 am Raymond Chandler’s Transition from Principled to Popular Fiction If it hadn't been for a poet's death convincing Chandler to give up verse, we might never have had the gritty, urban poetry of detective classics like The Big Sleep.      Jul 22, 2015 10:04 am Left Unspoken: Rosenkrantz’s ‘Talk’ Teases Out Truth from Fiction Paring away all but the most essential elements, Rosenkrantz's 'Talk' shows inner and outer lives, and makes decades-old concerns still feel jarringly contemporary.      Jul 22, 2015 09:16 am Barbarian Days: William Finnegan’s Surf Trip, Adapted by Nathan Gelgud Nathan Gelgud creates an illustrated montage inspired by William Finnegan’s ’Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life.’      Jul 22, 2015 07:30 am Alexandra Burt on Memory and the Maternal Hand Alexandra Burt, author of Remember Mia, discusses her own experience with postpartum depression, and how she exorcised it through her debut novel.      Jul 21, 2015 03:52 pm Can the ‘Magic Mike’ Team Make an Evel Knievel Movie Soar? With Channing Tatum set to star in an Evel Knievel biopic, we look at the difficulty in capturing (and puncturing) the myth of the famed stuntman.      Jul 21, 2015 11:59 am In The News: Is Harper Lee’s ‘Watchman’ Autobiographical? This week's news includes autobiographical questions about Go Set a Watchman, an award for Carlos Santana's memoir, and adaptation news for biographies of Lou Gehrig and golfer Moe Norman.      Jul 21, 2015 07:00 am Reef Deep: Q&A with Willian Finnegan on Barbarian Days Biographile caught up with William Finnegan, writer for The New Yorker and devoted surfer, to talk about his gorgeous new memoir, Barbarian Days.