Readers & Writers Talk Radio

Rabbi Mary Zamore spoke with me about her book, The Sacred Table, that supplies the basic how-to’s of creating a meaningful Jewish food ethic and incorporating these choices into your personal and communal religious practices. This is the SKYPE video chat recording from the Miami Book Fair International 2011. Related articles Skype adds Facebook video [...]

John Jacobsen dropped by for a chat during his time at the Miami Book Fair to discuss his first novel, A Commodore of Errors. A very entertaining book and a fun interview – he brought his guitar! Captain John Jacobsen, a 1985 graduate of the United States Merchant Marine Academy, spent fifteen years plying the [...]

How does Geoffrey Philp use an ant, Martin Luther King, Frank Sinatra, and a rubber tree plant to teach children how to handle pressure from bullies and renounce violence? Listen to his interview via SKYPE. Click here to purchase Marcus and the Amazons. Geoffrey Philp is a poet and fiction writer who teaches English at [...]

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. [...]