Jennine Capo Crucet is the author of How to Leave Hialeah-- a book that references tricked out cars, El Dorado furniture and Noche Buena feasts. She currently lives in Los Angeles, but she says her imagination lives in Hialeah-- the place that pulls her back. Under the Sun's Trina Sargalski asks about her relationship to Miami, her nostalgia, and learning to "share" family.
Friday, November 6, 2009
In honor of the Miami Book Fair International, WLRN is rebroadcasting our Literary South Florida episode Sunday night at 7. The episode is jam-packed: two "MacArthur Genuises," the creator of the "Dexter" character, aspiring poets and some talented and unpublished local writers. You can listen on WLRN 91.3 or WKWM 91.5 (in the Keys).
Friday, July 10, 2009
Danticat wrote a memoir to cope with the momentous year when her daughter was born, her father passed away, and her uncle died in an immigration detention center on the edge of the Everglades.
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Listen to an exiled writer describe his journey from Haitian intellectual to struggling immigrant. With Miami poised to become a city of refuge for exiled writers, this report explores what it's like to lose your home because of something you wrote.
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Think unabashedly corrupt politicians, bales of cocaine falling from the sky, and dead bodies in unusual locations. Under the Sun co-hosts Dan Grech and Alicia Zuckerman interview Jeff Lindsay, Joanne Sinchuk and Elaine Viets about how South Florida provides daily inspiration for the "zany thriller" novel.
Friday, June 26, 2009
Campbell McGrath is an award-winning poet and a professor at Florida International University. Listen to McGrath read about an unexpected orange, the hapless manatee, and Shorty's BBQ in Kendall.
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Will it be: six-toed cats, a strangely life-like statue or an "Inglish Gratis" sign?
Friday, November 13, 2009
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