The Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan
By Mitchell Kaplan
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Mitchell Kaplan has been a bookseller and has owned the independent bookstores Books & Books for over 35 years. He is also co-founder of the acclaimed Miami Book Fair. If you love books, writers or are a passionate reader, this podcast is for you. Enter The Literary Life where every Friday you’ll hear candid conversations with Mitchell and his guests.
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Chef Eric Ripert
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Feb 23, 2024 |
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John Grisham on Good Fiction and Big Issues
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Nov 03, 2023 |
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Lauren Groff on Writing Her Own Robinson Crusoe
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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Nathan Hill on Music, Marriage, and His New Novel WELLNESS
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Sep 29, 2023 |
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Kai Bird: Telling the Story of Robert Oppenheimer
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Sep 08, 2023 |
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Dean Koontz on His Life and His Work
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Aug 18, 2023 |
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Campbell McGrath: Reading Poetry Aloud
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Aug 04, 2023 |
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Marc Schulz: The Secret to Living a Happy Life
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Jul 14, 2023 |
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Chasten Buttigieg: Imagining a Brighter Future
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Jun 23, 2023 |
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Anne Berest: Exploring History in The Postcard
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Jun 09, 2023 |
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Ana Veciana-Suarez: You Can't Wait for Inspiration, You've Got to Write
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May 26, 2023 |
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Readings from the 2022 PEN America Prison Writing Awards Anthology
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May 12, 2023 |
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David Grann: diving into history, the trials of a sea voyage, and sailing the Gulf of Pain
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Apr 28, 2023 |
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Pattie Boyd: Art, Fashion, and Beatlemania
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Apr 14, 2023 |
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Shelley Read: Writing With a Deep Sense of Place
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Mar 24, 2023 |
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The Literary Life: In Conversation with the 2022 NBF 5 Under 35 Honorees
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Mar 17, 2023 |
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Alisha Fernandez Miranda: What If You Could Explore the What If Jobs of Your Dreams?
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Feb 17, 2023 |
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Patricia Engel: How Does It Feel Different to Develop a Voice For a Story Versus a Novel?
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Feb 10, 2023 |
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Tracy Kidder on How One Doctor Brought Healing to the Homeless
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Feb 03, 2023 |
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Emma Straub on Being Present, No Matter Where You Are
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Jan 27, 2023 |
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Quentin Tarantino on How He Never Intended to Write a Book of Film History
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Dec 02, 2022 |
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Dani Shapiro on the Fifteen Year Journey of Signal Fires
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Nov 04, 2022 |
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David Maraniss on the Afterlife of Jim Thorpe
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Oct 21, 2022 |
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Cory Doctorow: Why Our Current Tech Monopolies Is All Thanks to Ronald Reagan and Robert Bork
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Oct 14, 2022 |
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Ibram X. Kendi on Why Our Children Need to Be Told the Stories of Slavery and Colonialism
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Sep 30, 2022 |
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Jonathan Escoffery on How Nella Larsen’s Helga Crane Influenced His Debut Collection
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Sep 23, 2022 |
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Christopher M. Finan: How to Battle Book Banning in Your Own Community
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Sep 16, 2022 |
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Javier Zamora: You Can't Simply Make Art From Your Trauma to Heal Yourself
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Sep 09, 2022 |
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Dwyer Murphy on the Romantic Optimism in L.A. and South Florida Crime Novels
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Aug 13, 2022 |
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Monique Roffey: How to Write About Colonialism Without Talking About Colonialism
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Aug 05, 2022 |
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Blitz Bazawule on Why Crop Rotation Is The Perfect Metaphor For the Creative Mind
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Jul 22, 2022 |
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How Frank O'Hara Brought a Father and Daughter Closer Together
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Jul 15, 2022 |
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Geraldine Brooks on the Beauty of Implausible Truth
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Jul 08, 2022 |
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Ottessa Moshfegh: Why Do I Write About Such Darkness?
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Jul 01, 2022 |
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Mark Kurlansky: Why Short Stories are Pure Storytelling
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Jun 24, 2022 |
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Hernan Diaz: Why Are Novels About Wealth Almost Absent From the Literary Canon?
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Jun 17, 2022 |
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Alexander Maksik No Longer Condemns Metafictional Novels
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Jun 06, 2022 |
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Steve Almond on the Myth of Reaganism
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May 27, 2022 |
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Don Winslow Is Hopeful For the Future
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May 20, 2022 |
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Peter Balakian on How the Transmission of Trauma Across Generations Informs His Poetry
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May 14, 2022 |
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Douglas Stuart on the Strangeness of Sharing Your Own Grief and Loss in Fiction
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May 06, 2022 |
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What Kind of Bookstore Browser Are You?
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Apr 29, 2022 |
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What's Happening With the Literary Community in Ukraine?
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Apr 15, 2022 |
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Diana Abu-Jaber on How Life Begins Each Time You Find a New Place
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Mar 18, 2022 |
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Dr. Olha Poliukhovych and Askold Melnyczuk on the War in Ukraine
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Mar 04, 2022 |
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What Are You Blurbing, Deesha Philyaw?
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Feb 18, 2022 |
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Julie Otsuka on Writing Her Most Personal Story
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Feb 11, 2022 |
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Elisa New and Richard Blanco on the Diversity of American Poetry
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Feb 04, 2022 |
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Anjanette Delgado, Yaddyra Peralta, and Mia Leonin on the Literature of Uprootedness
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Jan 28, 2022 |
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Kerri Maher on How a Paris Bookseller Changed the Course of Literature
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Jan 21, 2022 |
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What Are You Reading: Connie Ogle
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Jan 14, 2022 |
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Valerie Miles on the Craft of Curating Translators
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Dec 10, 2021 |
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Paul Auster on the One Poem That He Can't Get Out of His Head
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Dec 03, 2021 |
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Bob Spitz on Writing the Definitive History of the Greatest Rock Band of All Time
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Nov 26, 2021 |
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Amor Towles on How Peter Matthiessen Inspired Him To Write
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Nov 19, 2021 |
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The Cultural History of the Miami Book Fair
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Nov 12, 2021 |
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Books for Those on Your 2021 Holiday List From Mitchell Kaplan and the Books & Books Team
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Nov 05, 2021 |
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Tananarive Due on Reinventing Black Horror
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Oct 29, 2021 |
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Lauren Groff on Exploring the Many Meanings of Matrix in Her New Novel
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Oct 15, 2021 |
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Investigative Journalist Julie Brown on Exposing Jeffrey Epstein
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Oct 08, 2021 |
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Jonathan Plutzik on Why a Hotel Should Be a Space for Creativity
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Oct 01, 2021 |
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Sandra Cisneros on Opening Up the Dialogue With People We Love
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Sep 24, 2021 |
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Les Standiford on Why the Circus Is Key to Understanding Who We Are
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Sep 10, 2021 |
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Patricia Engel on the Natural Human Instinct to Migrate
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Aug 27, 2021 |
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Catherine Raven: Why We're More Like Animals Than We Think
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Aug 06, 2021 |
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Kathie Klarreich: How Working with Prisoners Has Changed My Life
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Jul 30, 2021 |
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Ross King on the Man Who Changed Bookselling
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Jul 23, 2021 |
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Louis-Philippe Dalembert: "Migration Is Part of My Story"
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Jul 16, 2021 |
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Richard Flanagan on Writing (and Rewriting) Through the Devastating Bushfires in Tasmania and Australia
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Jul 09, 2021 |
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Quentin Tarantino, Debut Novelist
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Jul 02, 2021 |
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Joshua Henkin on Writing for the Long Haul
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Jun 25, 2021 |
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M.J. Fievre on Becoming a Haitian Writer in America
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Jun 18, 2021 |
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The Books & Books Staff Picks Their Summer Reads
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Jun 11, 2021 |
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Peter Osnos on Becoming a War Correspondent in Vietnam
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Jun 04, 2021 |
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Why You Won't Catch Ralph Nader Whining About Food
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May 21, 2021 |
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Cambria Gordon on the Lost Art of Penmanship
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May 14, 2021 |
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Hanif Abdurraqib on Censoring the Desires of Whiteness in Storytelling
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May 07, 2021 |
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Scott Berg and Alex Belth on the Timelessness of Jon Bradshaw's Journalism
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Apr 30, 2021 |
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Russell Banks on the Transformative Magic of South Florida
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Apr 16, 2021 |
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Fred Guttenberg on Gun Reform and the Hope of Young People
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Apr 09, 2021 |
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P. Scott Cunningham on Miami's Poetry Scene
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Mar 26, 2021 |
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Jen Spyra on Balancing the Zany with the Emotional
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Mar 19, 2021 |
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Jenny Lawson on How Falling Apart Can Bring us Together
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Mar 12, 2021 |
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Carol Edgarian: 'Every Book, You Have to Woo Your Readers Again'
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Mar 05, 2021 |
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Dantiel W. Moniz on Writing Stories That Are Felt in the Body
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Feb 26, 2021 |
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Tim Dorsey on Writing About Florida as a Floridian
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Feb 19, 2021 |
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Gabriel Byrne on Tracing His Memories Through Past and Present, Fact and Imagination
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Feb 12, 2021 |
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Maika and Maritza Moulite on What Real Allyship Looks Like
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Feb 05, 2021 |
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Paul Yamazaki on His Fifty Years at City Lights Booksellers
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Jan 29, 2021 |
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Daniel Halpern on the Secret Sauce of Ecco Press
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Jan 04, 2021 |
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David Hopen on Translating the Pardes Legend to Modern Times
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Dec 18, 2020 |
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The Team at Books & Books Recommends Their Holiday Picks
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Dec 11, 2020 |
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Deesha Philyaw on the Pleasure of Writing the Lives of Dissatisfied Women
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Nov 27, 2020 |
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Carlos Lozada: What Were—and What Now Are—We Thinking?
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Nov 13, 2020 |
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What Must Happen Next? Russell Banks, Edwidge Danticat, Richard Blanco, and Fernand Amandi on the Current Election
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Nov 09, 2020 |
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Pete Souza on When Generosity of Spirit Reigned in Politics
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Oct 30, 2020 |
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Jill McCorkle on the Voice She Channels When It's Time to Write a Rant
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Oct 23, 2020 |
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Allie Brosh: Everybody Wants to Touch Something in the Void
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Oct 16, 2020 |
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"It's Our Turn Now": Writers Against Trump on the Fight for Democracy
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Oct 09, 2020 |
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Ellis Cose on the Short Life and Curious Death of Free Speech in America
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Oct 02, 2020 |
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Carl Hiaasen on Satire as a Product of Anger
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Sep 25, 2020 |
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Ayad Akhtar on Why Deep Reading Really Matters (Now More Than Ever)
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Sep 18, 2020 |
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Alka Joshi on Reimagining Her Mother’s Past in The Henna Artist
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Sep 11, 2020 |
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Eric Weiner: In Search of Life Lessons from Dead Philosophers
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Sep 04, 2020 |
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Dr. Michele Harper: Healing Yourself by Understanding How to Heal Others
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Aug 28, 2020 |
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John Freeman on How “Citizenship is an active thing”
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Aug 21, 2020 |
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Ruth Behar on How Being a Lucky Broken Girl Made Her a Best-Selling Author
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Aug 14, 2020 |
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Edwidge Danticat, on “Everything Inside,” Her Award-Winning Short-Fiction Collection, an Encore Episode
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Aug 07, 2020 |
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Susan Wiggs on The Power and Magic of Bookstores
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Jul 31, 2020 |
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Jim Carrey and Co-Author Dana Vachon on “Memoirs and Misinformation” with Special Guest Introducer, Judy Blume
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Jul 24, 2020 |
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Kevin Kwan on How to Beautifully Skewer People
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Jul 17, 2020 |
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Nicholas Griffin on The Year of Dangerous Days: Riots, Refugees and Cocaine in Miami 1980
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Jul 10, 2020 |
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Ottessa Moshfegh: The Strange Responsibility of Holding Death in Your Hands
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Jul 03, 2020 |
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Curtis Sittenfeld on Why She Decided to Take on Hillary Clinton
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Jun 26, 2020 |
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James McBride on “The America that I write about when I write my books”
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Jun 19, 2020 |
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Megha Majumdar: Holding on to Humor During Times of Oppression
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Jun 12, 2020 |
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Former Black Panther, Albert Woodfox, on His 43 Years in Solitary Confinement
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Jun 05, 2020 |
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Robert Kolker on Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
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May 29, 2020 |
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The Ultimate Literary Bucket List
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May 22, 2020 |
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John Grisham, the Best-Selling Thriller Writer in the World
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May 15, 2020 |
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The History of Pharma in Times of Crisis
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May 08, 2020 |
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Julia Alvarez Examines Her Life as a Writer
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May 01, 2020 |
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Nick Flynn on What Art Can and Cannot Reflect
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Apr 17, 2020 |
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Mark Kurlansky on His Most Important Environmental Writing Yet
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Apr 10, 2020 |
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Dave Barry, The Literary Life’s First Guest. Just What We Need Now.
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Apr 03, 2020 |
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Podcast Creator and Strategist, Eric Nuzum on: Make Noise, a Creator’s Guide to Podcasting and Great Audio Storytelling
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Mar 27, 2020 |
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Alex Segura on Miami Midnight; Pete Fernandez’s Final Chapter
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Mar 20, 2020 |
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Campaign Strategist David Plouffe on Making a Difference in the 2020 Election
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Mar 13, 2020 |
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Amy Fine Collins on The International Best-Dressed List: The Official Guide
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Mar 06, 2020 |
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Gish Jen on Her Dystopian Novel, The Resisters: AutoAmerica, Surveillance and Baseball
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Feb 28, 2020 |
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Florida author Craig Pittman on How the Florida Panther Was Brought Back From Near Extinction
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Feb 21, 2020 |
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The Female Gen Exer’s Guide Through Middle Age Angst
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Feb 14, 2020 |
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Meet Susan Isaac’s New Heroine From Her Latest Thriller, Takes One to Know One
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Feb 07, 2020 |
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Slaying Goliath; Diane Ravitch's Fight to Save our Public Schools
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Jan 31, 2020 |
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Robert Boyers; Famous Child Singer in a Brooklyn Synagogue to Public Intellectual, Professor and Writer
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Jan 24, 2020 |
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Eight Years After The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern is Back with The Starless Sea
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Jan 17, 2020 |
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Armando Lucas Correa; on how his meeting with a holocaust survivor played a key role in his new novel, The Daughter’s Tale
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Jan 10, 2020 |
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Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2020
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Jan 04, 2020 |
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Chef Allen Susser, innovator of New World Cuisine, on his new book: Green Fig and Lionfish, Sustainable Caribbean Cooking
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Dec 20, 2019 |
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Connie Ogle; Miami Herald Writer, Book Reviewer on the Most Notable Books of 2019
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Dec 13, 2019 |
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Chris Stein, Blondie’s Co-founder on Point of View, his Photographs of New York City Through the Eyes of a Punk Rocker
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Dec 06, 2019 |
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Eve Ensler; How writing The Apology lifted the curse of an abusive father
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Nov 29, 2019 |
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Samantha Power, Former United Nations Ambassador on; The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir
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Nov 22, 2019 |
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Cassandra King Conroy; On her new book Tell Me a Story; My Life with Pat Conroy
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Nov 15, 2019 |
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Les Standiford on Palm Beach, Mar-a-Lago and #FloridaMan Donald Trump
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Nov 08, 2019 |
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Jill Bialosky; Living her Dream as a Poet, Writer, Executive Editor
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Nov 04, 2019 |
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Sir Salman Rushdie on Quichotte, His Homage to the Cervantes Classic
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Oct 25, 2019 |
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Jane Leavy on The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created
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Oct 18, 2019 |
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Meg Cabot: How Hurricane Irma and a landline phone inspired her new book
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Oct 11, 2019 |
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“Is there still Sex in the City?” Candace Bushnell answers this and more about her latest book
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Oct 04, 2019 |
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Inside "The Dutch House," Ann Patchett’s New Novel
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Sep 27, 2019 |
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Talking about Banned Books Week with the ABA's David Grogan and Sydney Jarrard
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Sep 20, 2019 |
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Jennine Capó Crucet: Funny, wise. and proud Cuban on her personal essays
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Sep 13, 2019 |
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Edwidge Danticat on “Everything Inside,” her anticipated collection of vividly imagined stories about community, family, and love
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Sep 06, 2019 |
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Ayşe Papatya Bucak on “The Trojan War Museum,” her debut story collection influenced by her beloved Turkish American heritage
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Aug 30, 2019 |
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Karl Marlantes on “Deep River,” the first labor movements, and World War I
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Aug 23, 2019 |
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Leonard Pitts, Jr.; From pop music critic to Pulitzer-winning columnist, on his new novel “The Last Thing You Surrender”
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Aug 16, 2019 |
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Pablo Medina on “The Cuban Comedy,” His Poetic Homage to Dissidents
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Aug 09, 2019 |
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The Art of Getting Books into Bookstores with Emily Cook Co-founder of Cursor Books
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Aug 02, 2019 |
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Pablo Cartaya, actor and waiter to award-winning middle-grade author, on his new book, "Each Tiny Spark"
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Jul 26, 2019 |
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Typewriter Obsession; Paul Schweitzer of Gramercy Typewriters, an analog man in a digital world
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Jul 19, 2019 |
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Mary Beth Keane on “Ask Again, Yes,” her new novel about family, love, tragedy and the power forgiveness
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Jul 12, 2019 |
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Scott Jefferey Miller, on “Management Mess,” and his 30 challenges to becoming a next level leader
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Jul 05, 2019 |
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Julia Phillips, on “Disappearing Earth,” her debut crime novel set in eastern Russia
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Jun 28, 2019 |
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Kristen Arnett, on “Mostly Dead Things,” a story of grief, humor and Florida
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Jun 21, 2019 |
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Summer reading selections from Mitchell Kaplan and his Books & Books team
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Jun 14, 2019 |
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Mamta Chaudhry, on the debut of her first novel, “Haunting Paris”
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Jun 07, 2019 |
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Albert Woodfox, on “Solitary,” his story of transformation and hope
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May 31, 2019 |
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Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, on “Friday Black,” his acclaimed debut book
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May 24, 2019 |
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Saskia Vogel on her debut novel, "Permission"
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May 17, 2019 |
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Pico Iyer, renowned travel writer and philosopher on his new book, “Autumn Light”
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May 10, 2019 |
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Nathaniel Rich on his new book, *Losing Earth*
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May 03, 2019 |
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P. Scott Cunningham, founder of the acclaimed O, Miami Poetry Festival…
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Apr 13, 2019 |
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Irvine Welsh, from “Trainspotting” to his latest book, “Dead Men’s Trousers”…
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Apr 06, 2019 |
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David Thomson, film writer and on his latest book: “Sleeping with Strangers; How the Movies Shaped Desire”
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Mar 30, 2019 |
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Lisa See on her new novel, *The Island of Sea Women*
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Mar 23, 2019 |
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Taylor Jenkins Reid, on her new rock ’n’ roll novel, *Daisy Jones and the Six*
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Mar 16, 2019 |
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Part 2: Dave Cullen, best-selling author of “Columbine,” on his latest book, “Parkland,” and more
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Mar 09, 2019 |
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Dave Cullen, best-selling author of “Columbine,” on his latest book, “Parkland”
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Mar 02, 2019 |
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James Grippando, from trial lawyer to best-selling author…on his latest thriller: *The Girl in a Glass Box*
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Feb 23, 2019 |
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Marlon James, on his anticipated novel, *Black Leopard, Red Wolf.
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Feb 16, 2019 |
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Ian Rankin, Scottish crime writer, on his latest novel: “In a House of Lies”
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Feb 09, 2019 |
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Fruit of the Winter Institute: Mitchell discusses the buzz books for spring and summer of 2019
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Feb 02, 2019 |
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Min Jin Lee…Best-selling author of “Pachinko,” on her Korean roots, life as a writer, her upcoming book and much more.
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Jan 26, 2019 |
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Dani Shapiro…on her thought-provoking new memoir, “Inheritance”
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Jan 19, 2019 |
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Lisa Lucas, Executive Director of the National Book Foundation…
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Jan 12, 2019 |
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Tayari Jones. Oprah’s Book Club author, award-winning writer, acclaimed essayist and much more…
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Jan 05, 2019 |
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Tina Brown…author, talk-show host and legendary former editor at Vanity Fair
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Dec 29, 2018 |
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Les Standiford, historian, author and Director of Florida International University’s Creative Writing Program
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Dec 22, 2018 |
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Best Books of 2018 and Holiday Book Recommendations
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Dec 15, 2018 |
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Jason Reynolds, National Book Award-nominee, from our Miami Book Fair Series
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Dec 08, 2018 |
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Doris Kearns Goodwin, PulitzerPrize-winning author and presidential historian, from our Miami Book Fair Series
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Dec 01, 2018 |
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Oren Teicher, CEO of the American Booksellers Association, on indie bookstores and their cultural significance.
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Nov 24, 2018 |
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Pete Souza, former White House Staff Photographer to President Barack Obama, talks about his latest best-seller, “Shade: A Tale of Two Presidents”
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Nov 17, 2018 |
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Jeff Abbott on his latest thriller, the challenges of losing his home, and entering the world of writing for film and television.
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Nov 10, 2018 |
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All about The Miami Book Fair
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Nov 03, 2018 |
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Michael Reynolds on Elena Ferrante, HBO, and the mission of Europa Editions
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Oct 27, 2018 |
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Johnny Temple on his journey to Akashic Books.
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Oct 20, 2018 |
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Debra Dean, bestselling author of “The Madonnas of Leningrad,” on writing, acting and teaching MFA students.
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Oct 13, 2018 |
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Rick Bragg, the great story teller…
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Oct 06, 2018 |
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Gary Shteyngart on his latest book, Lake Success
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Sep 29, 2018 |
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Walter Mosley on his unique childhood, an appreciation of Edwidge Danticat, philosophy and his latest book, John Woman.
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Sep 22, 2018 |
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Talking about new books…
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Sep 15, 2018 |
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Brad Meltzer on his fiction, histories, comics and the importance of family and friends…
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Sep 08, 2018 |
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Annie Barrows on the new film adapted from her novel, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society…
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Sep 01, 2018 |
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Dave Barry...
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Aug 25, 2018 |
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The Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan - Trailer
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Aug 23, 2018 |