Readers & Writers Talk Radio

Mat Johnson is an award-winning African-American novelist, author of Drop and Hunting in Harlem. Johnson is also the author of the Vertigo titles Incognegro and John Constantine, Hellblazer: Papa Midnite. Simon Gane is a British designer and illustrator who made his name in mini-comics before collaborating with Andi Watson on the acclaimed comic Paris. Dark [...]

Interview from the Miami Book Fair, Int’l 2009 Elizabeth Harry is a professor of special education at the University of Miami, where her research and teaching focuses on the impact of special education on families of diverse cultural backgrounds. A native of Jamaica, she founded the Immortelle Children’s Center in Port of Spain, Trinidad. Harry [...]

Interview from the Miami Book Fair, Int’l 2009. Helen Thorpe, author of Just Like Us: The True Story of Four Mexican Girls Coming of Age in America (Scribner), is a veteran journalist who worked as a staff writer for The New York Observer, The New Yorker, and Texas Monthly. She lives in Denver, Col,, with [...]

Interview from Miami Book Fair, Int’l 2009 Here, in all its neon-colored, cocaine-fueled glory, is the never-before-told story of the making of Miami Beach. Gerald Posner, author of the groundbreaking investigations Case Closed and Why America Slept, has uncovered the hair-raising political-financial-criminal history of the Beach and reveals a tale that, in the words of [...]

Interview from Miami Book Fair Int’l 2009. Carole Boston Weatherford, author of Becoming Billie Holiday (Boyd’s Mills Press), is a New York Times bestselling poet and writer. Her many books for children have won the Caldecott Honor, Coretta Scott King Award, and other prizes. Born in Baltimore, she teaches at Fayetteville State University and lives [...]

Doug Alderson’s articles and photographs have been featured in Wildlife Conservation, American Forests, Sea Kayaker, Sierra, Shaman’s Drum, Mother Earth News and several others. He has won two national writing awards for his magazine features, and he was awarded first place in the 2008 Florida State Writing Competition in the previously published nonfiction article category. [...]