Jeremy Glazer is a legislative analyst, a former high school teacher and a Miami native. His fictional piece, Walter & Edith, is about an older couple who make a Sunday ritual out of watching the cruise ships pass through Government Cut in Miami Beach.
A regular on the best-seller list, Florida novelist Carl Hiaasen sits down with his friend Dave Barry, in the first radio interview Barry has ever conducted, to discuss the obscene side of celebrity culture and Hiaasen's book, Star Island.
You can hear an extended version of Dave Barry's interview with Carl Hiaasen about his new book Star Island...
A quick update from our Literary South Florida episode: acclaimed writer Chenjerai Hove, of Zimbabwe, has become Miami's first writer to be hosted through the Cities of Refuge program.
Jeremy Glazer is a writer, a legislative analyst and that rare breed-- a Miami native. He reads his story, Souvenir, about an encounter with two tourists on South Beach.
Jennine Capo Crucet, author of the award-winning How to Leave Hialeah, speaks and signs books Monday evening.
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.
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is jam-packed: two "MacArthur Genuises," the creator of the "Dexter" character, aspiring poets and some talented and unpublished local writers.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).
Listen to Susan Brown read "Full Moon Fish House," about a magical place that is dilapidated but not defeated. The story was inspired by an actual fish house painted many times by Brown's husband, a photographer and watercolor artist. Brown submitted the story to our unpublished writers contest and was a runner-up in our Amateur category.
Susan Brown, a runner-up in our unpublished writers contest, reads from her memoir about dating life, online meet-ups and whether proof-of-divorce documents are really necessary on the first encounter. Eventually it worked out. Brown met her husband online.
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
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