Miami Hosts Exiled Writer Chenjerai Hove
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.
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Jeremy Glazer reads “Souvenir”
Thursday, January 28, 2010
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.
Event: Jennine Capo Crucet at Books & Books Monday
Monday, December 28, 2009
Jennine Capo Crucet, author of the award-winning How to Leave Hialeah, speaks and signs books Monday evening.
Five Questions: Jennine Capo Crucet
Friday, November 13, 2009
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.
Rebroadcast of Literary Episode Sunday at 7 pm
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is jam-packed: two "MacArthur Genuises," the creator of the "Dexter" character, aspiring poets and some talented and unpublished local writers.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).
Full Moon Fish House
Thursday, September 10, 2009
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 Brown submitted the story to our unpublished writers contest and was a runner-up in our Amateur category.
Dating Escapades
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Susan Brown, a runner-up in our unpublished writers contest, reads from her memoir about dating life, online meet-ups and whether proof-of-divorce documents are really necessary on the first encounter.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.
Five Questions: Hernan Iglesias
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Sun, traffic, cortaditos. That's South Florida in three words to Argentine journalist Hernan Iglesias, author of an upcoming book about Latin Miami. Iglesias predicts the hegemony of Cuban Americans in the city is coming to an end.
Episode 3: Literary South Florida
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Poet Campbell McGrath, novelist Edwidge Danticat and humorist Dave Barry headline a show that navigates our literary scene, including zany thrillers, emerging writers and young poets trying to make a living.
Jeremy Glazer: Amateur Winner
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Mourners in sunglasses? It's a Miami thing. Read Jeremy Glazer's winning entry to the Write South Florida contest and hear his thoughts on death under the sun. In his essay "Home," Glazer visits the funeral of a New England transplant who drops dead on a tennis court.
Episode 1: Premiere Episode
Episode 2: End of the Line
Episode 3: Literary South Florida
Episode 4
Episode 5: Haiti
- After The Quake: Patients And Healers
- Full Moon Fish House
- Episode 4: Letter from West Kendall: Growing up with Que Pasa, U.S.A.?
- Episode 4: The Tale of Lot 180
- Sketching out the Truth
- Dating Escapades
- Letter from Key West: Holiday Parade
- What are Your Favorite Moments from Que Pasa, U.S.A.?
- South Florida Photo of the Week: 9/29/09
- South Florida Photo of the Week 11/24/09
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Under the Sun On the Web
Friday, March 5, 2010
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