https://heliumradio.com/enSociety & CultureCopyright Helium Radio Networkhttps://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/25cba18bbf85f25ee0ed3a3b1dac4d8b.jpghttps://heliumradio.com/Sun, 23 Mar 2025 10:36:45 +0000Helium Radio NetworkHelium Radio Networksupport@heliumradio.comcleanepisodichttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2019-miami-book-fair-featuring-micah-dean-hicks--21627299His stories and essays have appeared in dozens of magazines ranging from the New York Times to Lightspeed to the Kenyon Review. Hicks teaches creative writing at the University of Central Florida in Orlando. His latest book is Break the Bodies, Haunt the Bones (John Joseph Adams/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt).
Jane is haunted. Since she was a child, she has carried a ghost girl that feeds on the secrets and fears of everyone around her, whispering to Jane what they are thinking and feeling, even when she doesn’t want to know. Henry, Jane’s brother, is ridden by a genius ghost that forces him to build strange and dangerous machines. Their mother is possessed by a lonely spirit that burns anyone she touches. In Swine Hill, a place of defeat and depletion, there are more dead than living.
When new arrivals begin scoring precious jobs at the last factory in town, both the living and the dead are furious. This insult on the end of a long economic decline sparks a conflagration. Buffeted by rage on all sides, Jane must find a way to save her haunted family and escape the town before it kills them.]]>https://heliumradio.com/?post_type=podcast&p=39358Mon, 25 Nov 2019 04:59:36 +0000Helium Radio NetworkMicah Dean Hicks is the author of the story collection Electricity and Other Dreams—a book of dark fairy tales and bizarre fables that won the 2012 New American Fiction Prize. He is also the winner of the 2014 Calvino Prize, the 2016 Arts and Letters...His stories and essays have appeared in dozens of magazines ranging from the New York Times to Lightspeed to the Kenyon Review. Hicks teaches creative writing at the University of Central Florida in Orlando. His latest book is Break the Bodies, Haunt the Bones (John Joseph Adams/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt).
Jane is haunted. Since she was a child, she has carried a ghost girl that feeds on the secrets and fears of everyone around her, whispering to Jane what they are thinking and feeling, even when she doesn’t want to know. Henry, Jane’s brother, is ridden by a genius ghost that forces him to build strange and dangerous machines. Their mother is possessed by a lonely spirit that burns anyone she touches. In Swine Hill, a place of defeat and depletion, there are more dead than living.
When new arrivals begin scoring precious jobs at the last factory in town, both the living and the dead are furious. This insult on the end of a long economic decline sparks a conflagration. Buffeted by rage on all sides, Jane must find a way to save her haunted family and escape the town before it kills them.]]>596cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2019-miami-book-fair-featuring-marie-arana--21627279Against the background of a thousand years of vivid history, acclaimed writer Marie Arana tells the timely and timeless stories of three contemporary Latin Americans whose lives represent three driving forces that have shaped the character of the region: exploitation (silver), violence (sword), and religion (stone).
In Silver, Sword, and Stone Marie Arana seamlessly weaves these stories with the history of the past millennium to explain three enduring themes that have defined Latin America since pre-Columbian times: the foreign greed for its mineral riches, an ingrained propensity to violence, and the abiding power of religion. What emerges is a vibrant portrait of a people whose lives are increasingly intertwined with our own.]]>https://heliumradio.com/?post_type=podcast&p=39357Mon, 25 Nov 2019 04:56:06 +0000Helium Radio NetworkMarie Arana was born in Lima, Peru. She is the author of the memoir American Chica, a finalist for the National Book Award; two novels, Cellophane and Lima Nights; and The Writing Life, a collection from her well-known column for The Washington Post....Against the background of a thousand years of vivid history, acclaimed writer Marie Arana tells the timely and timeless stories of three contemporary Latin Americans whose lives represent three driving forces that have shaped the character of the region: exploitation (silver), violence (sword), and religion (stone).
In Silver, Sword, and Stone Marie Arana seamlessly weaves these stories with the history of the past millennium to explain three enduring themes that have defined Latin America since pre-Columbian times: the foreign greed for its mineral riches, an ingrained propensity to violence, and the abiding power of religion. What emerges is a vibrant portrait of a people whose lives are increasingly intertwined with our own.]]>831cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2019-miami-book-fair-featuring-lori-gottlieb--21627305Gottlieb is the New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), which is being adapted as a television series with Eva Longoria. In a starred review, Kirkus calls it, “An irresistibly addictive tour of the human condition." One day, Lori Gottlieb is a therapist who helps patients in her Los Angeles practice.
The next, a crisis causes her world to come crashing down. Enter Wendell, the quirky but seasoned therapist in whose of­fice she suddenly lands. With his balding head, cardigan, and khakis, he seems to have come straight from Therapist Central Casting. Yet he will turn out to be anything but. With startling wisdom and humor, Gottlieb invites us into her world as both clinician and patient, examining the truths and fictions we tell ourselves and others as we teeter on the tightrope between love and desire, meaning and mortality, guilt and redemption, terror and courage, hope and change.]]>https://heliumradio.com/?post_type=podcast&p=39356Mon, 25 Nov 2019 04:49:45 +0000Helium Radio NetworkLori Gottlieb is a psychotherapist. In addition to her clinical practice, she writes the Atlantic's weekly "Dear Therapist" advice column and contributes regularly to the New York Times. She is on the Advisory Council for Bring Change to Mind and has...Gottlieb is the New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), which is being adapted as a television series with Eva Longoria. In a starred review, Kirkus calls it, “An irresistibly addictive tour of the human condition." One day, Lori Gottlieb is a therapist who helps patients in her Los Angeles practice.
The next, a crisis causes her world to come crashing down. Enter Wendell, the quirky but seasoned therapist in whose of­fice she suddenly lands. With his balding head, cardigan, and khakis, he seems to have come straight from Therapist Central Casting. Yet he will turn out to be anything but. With startling wisdom and humor, Gottlieb invites us into her world as both clinician and patient, examining the truths and fictions we tell ourselves and others as we teeter on the tightrope between love and desire, meaning and mortality, guilt and redemption, terror and courage, hope and change.]]>1060cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2019-miami-book-fair-featuring-lauren-acampora--21627278She is the author of The Wonder Garden. Her latest book, The Paper Wasp (Grove Press) is a riveting, knife-edge story of two women’s dark friendship of twisted ambition, set against the backdrop of contemporary Hollywood. In small-town Michigan, Abby Graven leads a solitary life. Once a bright student on the cusp of a promising art career, she now languishes in her childhood home, trudging to and from her job as a supermarket cashier. Each day she is taunted from the magazine racks by the success of her former best friend Elise, a rising Hollywood starlet whose life in pictures Abby obsessively scrapbooks.
When Abby encounters Elise again at their high school reunion, she is surprised and warmed that Elise still considers her not only a friend, but a brilliant storyteller, and true artist. When Elise offhandedly tells Abby to look her up if she’s ever in LA, Abby soon arrives on her doorstep. There, Abby becomes enmeshed in Elise’s world, even as she guards her own dark secrets and desire for greatness. As she edges closer to Elise, and her own artistic ambitions, the dynamic shifts between the two friends—until Abby can see only one way to grasp the future that awaits her.]]>https://heliumradio.com/?post_type=podcast&p=39355Mon, 25 Nov 2019 04:43:29 +0000Helium Radio NetworkLauren Acampora’s short fiction and other writing has appeared in publications such as the Paris Review, Guernica, Missouri Review, Prairie Schooner, New England Review, Antioch Review, and LitHub. She is a graduate of Brown University, earned an MFA...She is the author of The Wonder Garden. Her latest book, The Paper Wasp (Grove Press) is a riveting, knife-edge story of two women’s dark friendship of twisted ambition, set against the backdrop of contemporary Hollywood. In small-town Michigan, Abby Graven leads a solitary life. Once a bright student on the cusp of a promising art career, she now languishes in her childhood home, trudging to and from her job as a supermarket cashier. Each day she is taunted from the magazine racks by the success of her former best friend Elise, a rising Hollywood starlet whose life in pictures Abby obsessively scrapbooks.
When Abby encounters Elise again at their high school reunion, she is surprised and warmed that Elise still considers her not only a friend, but a brilliant storyteller, and true artist. When Elise offhandedly tells Abby to look her up if she’s ever in LA, Abby soon arrives on her doorstep. There, Abby becomes enmeshed in Elise’s world, even as she guards her own dark secrets and desire for greatness. As she edges closer to Elise, and her own artistic ambitions, the dynamic shifts between the two friends—until Abby can see only one way to grasp the future that awaits her.]]>1036cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2019-miami-book-fair-featuring-karina-sainz-borgo--21627288After burying her mother, her only family, Adelaida Falcon faces alone a country that has disintegrated into violence and anarchy, where citizens are increasingly pitted against each other. It Would Be Night in Caracas, translated from Spanish by Elizabeth Bryer, is a chilling reminder of how quickly the world we know can crumble. (Caracas, Venezuela, 1982) Periodista y narradora residente en España. Ha publicado los libros de periodismo Caracas hip-hop y Tráfico y Guaire. El país de los intelectuales. Llega a Miami para presentar su novela debut: La hija de la española, publicada por Lumen, donde cuenta la historia de una periodista que recién ha perdido a su madre y que no logra avanzar en su profesión porque el país donde vive, Venezuela, no se lo permite.]]>https://heliumradio.com/?post_type=podcast&p=39354Mon, 25 Nov 2019 04:39:24 +0000Helium Radio NetworkBorn and raised in Caracas, Venezuela, journalist Karina Sainz Borgo has written two nonfiction books, Tráfico y Guaire, and Caracas Hip-Hop. In It Would be Night in Caracas (Harper Collins), her first work of fiction, Sainz, for the past 10 years a...After burying her mother, her only family, Adelaida Falcon faces alone a country that has disintegrated into violence and anarchy, where citizens are increasingly pitted against each other. It Would Be Night in Caracas, translated from Spanish by Elizabeth Bryer, is a chilling reminder of how quickly the world we know can crumble. (Caracas, Venezuela, 1982) Periodista y narradora residente en España. Ha publicado los libros de periodismo Caracas hip-hop y Tráfico y Guaire. El país de los intelectuales. Llega a Miami para presentar su novela debut: La hija de la española, publicada por Lumen, donde cuenta la historia de una periodista que recién ha perdido a su madre y que no logra avanzar en su profesión porque el país donde vive, Venezuela, no se lo permite.]]>762cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2019-miami-book-fair-featuring-steph-cha--21627307Grace is sheltered and largely oblivious, living in the Valley with her Korean-immigrant parents, working long hours at the family pharmacy. She’s distraught that her sister hasn’t spoken to their mother in two years, for reasons beyond Grace’s understanding. Shawn has already had enough of politics and protest after an act of violence shattered his family years ago. He just wants to be left alone to enjoy his quiet life in Palmdale. But when another shocking crime hits LA, both the Park and Matthews families are forced to face down their history while navigating the tumult of a city on the brink of more violence.
Attica Locke, Edgar-Award winning author of Bluebird, Bluebird writes, “Steph Cha has taken a dark moment in Los Angeles’s violent history and cracked it wide open, creating a prism of understanding...It’s a touching portrait of two families bound together by a split-second decision that tore a hole through an entire city.”]]>https://heliumradio.com/?post_type=podcast&p=39353Mon, 25 Nov 2019 04:34:52 +0000Helium Radio NetworkSteph Cha is the author of Follow Her Home, Beware Beware, and Dead Soon Enough. She’s the noir editor for the Los Angeles Review of Books and a regular contributor to the Los Angeles Times and USA Today. Cha is the author of Your House Will Pay...Grace is sheltered and largely oblivious, living in the Valley with her Korean-immigrant parents, working long hours at the family pharmacy. She’s distraught that her sister hasn’t spoken to their mother in two years, for reasons beyond Grace’s understanding. Shawn has already had enough of politics and protest after an act of violence shattered his family years ago. He just wants to be left alone to enjoy his quiet life in Palmdale. But when another shocking crime hits LA, both the Park and Matthews families are forced to face down their history while navigating the tumult of a city on the brink of more violence.
Attica Locke, Edgar-Award winning author of Bluebird, Bluebird writes, “Steph Cha has taken a dark moment in Los Angeles’s violent history and cracked it wide open, creating a prism of understanding...It’s a touching portrait of two families bound together by a split-second decision that tore a hole through an entire city.”]]>781cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2019-miami-book-fair-featuring-oscar-casares--21627308https://heliumradio.com/?post_type=podcast&p=39337Mon, 25 Nov 2019 01:57:20 +0000Helium Radio NetworkCásares, Oscar (Estados Unidos, 1964) Narrador, ensayista y profesor de escritura creativa. Enseña en la University of Texas en Austin. Ha sido reconocido con la Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (2006), el James A. Michener Award de la Copernicus...1053cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2019-miami-book-fair-featuring-carrie-gibson--21627303El Norte: The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America (Atlantic Monthly Press) chronicles the sweeping and dramatic history of Hispanic North America from the arrival of the Spanish in the early 16th century to the present―from Ponce de Leon’s initial landing in Florida in 1513 to Spanish control of the vast Louisiana territory in 1762 to the Mexican-American War in 1846 and up to the more recent tragedy of post-hurricane Puerto Rico and the ongoing border acrimony with Mexico.
Interwoven in this stirring narrative of events and people are cultural issues that have been there from the start, but which are unresolved to this day: language, belonging, community, race, and nationality. Seeing them play out over centuries provides a vital perspective at a time when it is urgently needed.]]>https://heliumradio.com/?post_type=podcast&p=39365Sun, 24 Nov 2019 05:22:18 +0000Helium Radio NetworkCarrie Gibson is the author of the acclaimed Empire’s Crossroads: A History of the Caribbean From Columbus to the Present Day. She received a Ph.D. from Cambridge University, focusing on the Spanish Caribbean in the era of the Haitian Revolution, and...El Norte: The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America (Atlantic Monthly Press) chronicles the sweeping and dramatic history of Hispanic North America from the arrival of the Spanish in the early 16th century to the present―from Ponce de Leon’s initial landing in Florida in 1513 to Spanish control of the vast Louisiana territory in 1762 to the Mexican-American War in 1846 and up to the more recent tragedy of post-hurricane Puerto Rico and the ongoing border acrimony with Mexico.
Interwoven in this stirring narrative of events and people are cultural issues that have been there from the start, but which are unresolved to this day: language, belonging, community, race, and nationality. Seeing them play out over centuries provides a vital perspective at a time when it is urgently needed.]]>868cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2019-miami-book-fair-featuring-adam-platt--21627298From dim sum in Hong Kong to giant platters of Peking duck in Beijing, fresh-baked croissants in Paris and pierogi on the snowy streets of Moscow, Platt takes us around the world, retracing the steps of a unique, and lifelong, culinary education. Intertwining food and travel, The Book of Eating is a delightful and sumptuous trip that is also the culinary coming-of-age.]]>https://heliumradio.com/?post_type=podcast&p=39364Sun, 24 Nov 2019 05:18:04 +0000Helium Radio NetworkAdam Platt has been a contributing editor and restaurant critic for New York magazine since 2000. He won the James Beard Foundation Journalism Award for Restaurant Reviews in 2010. In his funny and irreverent memoir The Book of Eating: Adventures in...From dim sum in Hong Kong to giant platters of Peking duck in Beijing, fresh-baked croissants in Paris and pierogi on the snowy streets of Moscow, Platt takes us around the world, retracing the steps of a unique, and lifelong, culinary education. Intertwining food and travel, The Book of Eating is a delightful and sumptuous trip that is also the culinary coming-of-age.]]>1079cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2019-miami-book-fair-featuring-julian-zelizer-kevin-kruse--21627306It chronicles the origins of a United States increasingly riven by stark political partisanship and deep social divisions along lines of race, class, gender and sexuality. The book also explores the ways in which a fractured media landscape aggravated our divisions in politics and society. Douglas Brinkley, history commentator for CNN, contributing editor to Vanity Fair and American Heritage, and author, called Fault Lines “[…] a brilliant primer for understanding the troubling precedents for today’s mass American political dysfunction. Both historians are deeply informed and surefooted thinkers. A must-read foundational work for our time!”
 

 
Kevin M. Kruse is a Professor of History at Princeton University. He specializes in the political, social, and urban/suburban history of twentieth-century America, with a focus on conflicts over race, rights and religion and the making of modern conservatism. His most recent book, One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America, explored the making and meaning of American religious nationalism in the mid-twentieth century.
Fault Lines, written with fellow historian Julian E. Zelizer, is a sweeping history of the past four decades of American history. It chronicles the origins of a United States increasingly riven by stark political partisanship and deep social divisions along lines of race, class, gender, and sexuality. The book also explores the ways in which a fractured media landscape aggravated our divisions in politics and society. Douglas Brinkley, history commentator for CNN, contributing editor to Vanity Fair and American Heritage, and author, called Fault Lines “[…] a brilliant primer for understanding the troubling precedents for today’s mass American political dysfunction. Both historians are deeply informed and surefooted thinkers. A must-read foundational work for our time!”]]>https://heliumradio.com/?post_type=podcast&p=39363Sun, 24 Nov 2019 05:13:25 +0000Helium Radio NetworkJulian E. Zelizer is a Professor of History and Public Affairs at Princeton University. Considered one of the pioneers in the revival of American political history, his most recent book is The Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the...It chronicles the origins of a United States increasingly riven by stark political partisanship and deep social divisions along lines of race, class, gender and sexuality. The book also explores the ways in which a fractured media landscape aggravated our divisions in politics and society. Douglas Brinkley, history commentator for CNN, contributing editor to Vanity Fair and American Heritage, and author, called Fault Lines “[…] a brilliant primer for understanding the troubling precedents for today’s mass American political dysfunction. Both historians are deeply informed and surefooted thinkers. A must-read foundational work for our time!”
 

 
Kevin M. Kruse is a Professor of History at Princeton University. He specializes in the political, social, and urban/suburban history of twentieth-century America, with a focus on conflicts over race, rights and religion and the making of modern conservatism. His most recent book, One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America, explored the making and meaning of American religious nationalism in the mid-twentieth century.
Fault Lines, written with fellow historian Julian E. Zelizer, is a sweeping history of the past four decades of American history. It chronicles the origins of a United States increasingly riven by stark political partisanship and deep social divisions along lines of race, class, gender, and sexuality. The book also explores the ways in which a fractured media landscape aggravated our divisions in politics and society. Douglas Brinkley, history commentator for CNN, contributing editor to Vanity Fair and American Heritage, and author, called Fault Lines “[…] a brilliant primer for understanding the troubling precedents for today’s mass American political dysfunction. Both historians are deeply informed and surefooted thinkers. A must-read foundational work for our time!”]]>1065cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2019-miami-book-fair-featuring-julia-flynn-siler--45072584https://heliumradio.com/?post_type=podcast&p=39362Sun, 24 Nov 2019 05:10:48 +0000Helium Radio NetworkJulia Flynn Siler is the author of Lost Kingdom: Hawaii's Last Queen, the Sugar Kings, and America's First Imperial Adventure, and The House of Mondavi: The Rise and Fall of an American Wine Dynasty, a finalist for a James Beard Award and a Gerald...891cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2019-miami-book-fair-featuring-elissa-altman--45072585https://heliumradio.com/?post_type=podcast&p=39360Sun, 24 Nov 2019 05:05:44 +0000Helium Radio NetworkElissa Altman is the critically acclaimed author of Poor Man’s Feast: A Love Story of Comfort, Desire, and the Art of Simple Cooking and Treyf: My Life as an Unorthodox Outlaw. Her work has appeared in O: The Oprah Magazine, The Wall Street Journal,...935cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2019-miami-book-fair-featuring-david-maraniss--45072601https://heliumradio.com/?post_type=podcast&p=39359Sun, 24 Nov 2019 05:03:06 +0000Helium Radio Network1047cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2018-miami-book-fair-featuring-thomas-swick--45072591https://heliumradio.com/?post_type=podcast&p=36035Mon, 19 Nov 2018 02:33:37 +0000Helium Radio NetworkI was born on June 7, 1952 in Easton, Pennsylvania, because there was no hospital in Phillipsburg, New Jersey. After graduating from Phillipsburg High School I attended Villanova University, returning home for the summers to work on the free bridges...678cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2018-miami-book-fair-featuring-monk-yun-rou--45072594https://heliumradio.com/?post_type=podcast&p=36034Mon, 19 Nov 2018 02:27:21 +0000Helium Radio NetworkDaoist Monk Yun Rou (formerly Arthur Rosenfeld) received his academic background at Yale, Cornell, and the University of California. In 2012, he was ordained a Daoist monk at the Chun Yang (Pure Yang) Daoist Temple in Guangzhou, China, one of the...831cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2018-miami-book-fair-featuring-peter-tomasi--45072597https://heliumradio.com/?post_type=podcast&p=36033Mon, 19 Nov 2018 02:16:12 +0000Helium Radio NetworkPeter J. Tomasi is a New York Times best-selling author known for his work on Superman Rebirth, Batman and Robin, Super-Sons, Green Lantern Corps, Detective Comics and Batman Arkham Knight, along with other commercially successful books, Brightest...915cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/miami-book-fair-2018-featuring-gregory-wallance--45072588https://heliumradio.com/?post_type=podcast&p=36028Mon, 19 Nov 2018 01:11:39 +0000Helium Radio NetworkGregory J. Wallance is a lawyer and writer in New York City, a former federal prosecutor, and a longtime human rights activist. He is the author of Papa’s Game, nominated for an Edgar Allan Poe Award; America’s Soul in the Balance: The Holocaust,...763cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/miami-book-fair-2018-featuring-jon-mcgoran--45072595https://heliumradio.com/?post_type=podcast&p=36027Mon, 19 Nov 2018 01:07:19 +0000Helium Radio NetworkJon McGoran has written several books for adults, including the D.H. Dublin series and the eco-thrillers Drift and Deadout, which Publishers Weekly called "outstanding" in a starred review. Jon McGoran is also a founding member of The Liars Club, a...638cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/miami-book-fair-2018-featuring-mia-leonin--45072600https://heliumradio.com/?post_type=podcast&p=36026Mon, 19 Nov 2018 00:57:13 +0000Helium Radio NetworkMia Leonin is the author of Unraveling the Bed, and a memoir, Havana and Other Missing Fathers. Leonin's poetry has been published in New Letters, Guernica, Prairie Schooner, Alaska Quarterly Review, Indiana Review, Witness, River Styx, Chelsea, and...1180cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/miami-book-fair-2018-featuring-michael-kupperman--45072590https://heliumradio.com/?post_type=podcast&p=36025Mon, 19 Nov 2018 00:53:11 +0000Helium Radio NetworkMichael Kupperman’s comic drawings and strips have appeared in dozens of publications including The New Yorker, Fortune, The New York Times, Nickelodeon Magazine, Forbes, Fast Company, Esquire, Heavy Metal, and McSweeney’s; comic books for DC, Marvel,...955cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/miami-book-fair-2018-featuring-tera-hunter--45072615https://heliumradio.com/?post_type=podcast&p=36024Mon, 19 Nov 2018 00:50:16 +0000Helium Radio NetworkTera W. Hunter is Professor of History and African American Studies at Princeton University. Hunter's first book, To Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women’s Lives and Labors After the Civil War, won the H. L. Mitchell Award from the Southern Historical...926cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/miami-book-fair-2018-featuring-bob-eckstein--45072598https://heliumradio.com/?post_type=podcast&p=36023Mon, 19 Nov 2018 00:44:14 +0000Helium Radio NetworkBob Eckstein is an award-winning illustrator, writer, New Yorker cartoonist, snowman expert, and author of the New York Times bestselling Footnotes from the Greatest Bookstores. His cartoons, Op-eds, and short stories appear worldwide regularly...430cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/miami-book-fair-2018-featuring-dawn-davies--45072589https://heliumradio.com/?post_type=podcast&p=36022Mon, 19 Nov 2018 00:38:31 +0000Helium Radio NetworkDawn S. Davies has a BA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and an MFA from Florida International University. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Special Mention, and her work has been published in numerous journals and anthologies. She lives in Fort...1008cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/miami-book-fair-2018-featuring-kim-brooks--45072609https://heliumradio.com/?post_type=podcast&p=36021Mon, 19 Nov 2018 00:34:04 +0000Helium Radio NetworkKim Brooks is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was a Teaching-Writing Fellow. Her fiction has appeared in Glimmer Train, One Story, The Missouri Review, and other journals, and her essays have appeared in Salon, Buzzfeed, New...931cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/miami-book-fair-2018-featuring-annie-barrows--45072646https://heliumradio.com/?post_type=podcast&p=36020Mon, 19 Nov 2018 00:25:03 +0000Helium Radio NetworkAnnie Barrows is the bestselling author of books for both children and adults, including the YA novel Nothing, and the bestselling novel The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. Annie Barrows' bestselling chapter book series, Ivy & Bean, is...809cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/miami-book-fair-2018-featuring-sylvia-acevedo--45072599https://heliumradio.com/?post_type=podcast&p=36008Mon, 19 Nov 2018 00:05:42 +0000Helium Radio NetworkSylvia Acevedo is an award-winning entrepreneur who has earned worldwide recognition for her work in addressing one of society’s most vexing challenges – universal access to education. Sylvia started her career as a rocket scientist at the Jet...1047cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2017-miami-book-fair-featuring-alan-dole-and-john-newman--45072604http://heliumradio.com/?post_type=podcast&p=32815Sun, 19 Nov 2017 18:58:31 +0000Helium Radio NetworkAlan Dale was the moderator and host for the 2017 JFK Lancer Conference event in Dallas. He is the host of JFK Lancer: Conversations, an online interview program featuring in-depth discussions with prominent authors, historical researchers, and...956cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2017-miami-book-fair-featuring-steve-liebowitz--45072607http://heliumradio.com/?post_type=podcast&p=32814Sun, 19 Nov 2017 18:55:59 +0000Helium Radio NetworkDr. Steve Leibowitz had a twenty-seven-year career as a human resource developer with Miami-Dade County Government, during which he kept active in the South Florida community. Among those to have recognized Dr. Liebowitz for excellence are: Junior...1117cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2017-miami-book-fair-featuring-peter-wadhams--45072612http://heliumradio.com/?post_type=podcast&p=32813Sun, 19 Nov 2017 18:53:01 +0000Helium Radio NetworkPeter Wadhams is Professor of Ocean Physics and Head of the Polar Ocean Physics Group in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at Cambridge University. He has completed over fifty research trips to the Arctic.  A Farewell to...500cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2017-miami-book-fair-featuring-paula-mazur--45072614http://heliumradio.com/?post_type=podcast&p=32812Sun, 19 Nov 2017 18:50:59 +0000Helium Radio NetworkPaula Mazur is an award-winning producer whose work is derived almost solely from literary source material. She has taken numerous plays from stage to screen including The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe and The Vagina Monologues....735cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2017-miami-book-fair-featuring-nicholas-reynolds--45072633http://heliumradio.com/?post_type=podcast&p=32811Sun, 19 Nov 2017 18:48:31 +0000Helium Radio NetworkNicholas Reynolds has worked in the fields of modern military history and intelligence off and on for forty years, with some unusual detours. Freshly minted Ph.D. from Oxford University in hand, he joined the United States Marine Corps in the 1970s....1108cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2017-miami-book-fair-featuring-maya-jasanoff--45072622http://heliumradio.com/?post_type=podcast&p=32810Sun, 19 Nov 2017 18:44:48 +0000Helium Radio NetworkMaya Jasanoff is the Coolidge Professor of History at Harvard. She is the author of the prize-winning Edge of Empire: Lives, Culture, and Conquest in the East, 1750-1850 and Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World, which...1059cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2017-miami-book-fair-featuring-ladee-hubbard--45072602http://heliumradio.com/?post_type=podcast&p=32809Sun, 19 Nov 2017 18:42:11 +0000Helium Radio NetworkLadee Hubbard is the winner of the 2016 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award and the William Faulkner-William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition for the Short Story. Hubbard’s debut novel is The Talented Ribkins (Melville House), in which Johnny...712cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2017-miami-book-fair-featuring-jefferson-morley--45072619http://heliumradio.com/?post_type=podcast&p=32808Sun, 19 Nov 2017 18:39:44 +0000Helium Radio NetworkMorley is a veteran Washington journalist who has been writing about the JFK story for national publications since 1983. The editor of the JFK Facts blog, Morley is the author of two biographies which explore the CIA’s role in the events of 1963: The...1387cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2017-miami-book-fair-featuring-jack-e-davis--45072626http://heliumradio.com/?post_type=podcast&p=32807Sun, 19 Nov 2017 18:36:29 +0000Helium Radio NetworkJack E. Davis is the author of the award-winning An Everglades Providence: Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the American Environmental Century. A professor of environmental history at the University of Florida, he grew up on the Gulf coast. Davis’s The...923cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2017-miami-book-fair-featuring-elisabeth-rosner--45072624http://heliumradio.com/?post_type=podcast&p=32806Sun, 19 Nov 2017 18:32:57 +0000Helium Radio NetworkElizabeth Rosner is a bestselling novelist, poet, and essayist Her previous books include three novels, Electric City, named one of the best books of 2014 by National Public Radio; Blue Nude; Speed of Light; and Gravity, a collection of poetry....883cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2017-miami-book-fair-featuring-dwayne-booth--45072628http://heliumradio.com/?post_type=podcast&p=32805Sun, 19 Nov 2017 18:30:01 +0000Helium Radio NetworkDwayne Booth has been a freelance writer and cartoonist for eighteen years, publishing under both his real name and the pen name of Mr. Fish, with many of the nation’s most reputable and prestigious magazines, journals, and newspapers. In addition to...921cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2017-miami-book-fair-featuring-ben-blum--45072592http://heliumradio.com/?post_type=podcast&p=32803Sun, 19 Nov 2017 18:24:38 +0000Helium Radio NetworkBen Blum holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California Berkeley, where he was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, and an MFA in fiction from New York University, where he was awarded the New York Times...536cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2017-miami-book-fair-featuring-barry-fellman--45072635http://heliumradio.com/?post_type=podcast&p=32802Sun, 19 Nov 2017 18:19:33 +0000Helium Radio NetworkTo commemorate the 25th anniversary of Hurricane Andrew, photographer Barry Fellman presents, HURRICANE (EXILE Editions), featuring powerful images that Fellman captured immediately following this devastating storm’s touchdown at the Tamiami airport....772cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2017-miami-book-fair-featuring-ashley-dawson--45072629http://heliumradio.com/?post_type=podcast&p=32801Sun, 19 Nov 2017 18:15:59 +0000Helium Radio NetworkAshley Dawson is a Professor of English at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Dawson’s published works include Extinction: A Radical History, The Routledge Concise History of Twentieth-Century British Literature, and Mongrel Nation:...1096cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2017-miami-book-fair-featuring-angela-saini--45072638http://heliumradio.com/?post_type=podcast&p=32800Sun, 19 Nov 2017 18:03:27 +0000Helium Radio NetworkAngela Saini is an award-winning science journalist whose print and broadcast work has appeared on the BBC and in the Guardian, New Scientist, Wired, the Economist, and Science. A former Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT, she won the Kavli...1053cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2016-miami-book-fair-anne-korkeakivi--45072644http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=8124Sun, 20 Nov 2016 12:50:51 +0000Helium Radio NetworkAnne Korkeakivi is the author of the novel An Unexpected Guest. Her short fiction has been published by such as the Atlantic, the Yale Review,Consequence magazine, and the Bellevue Literary Review. Her nonfiction has appeared in the New York Times,...785cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2016-miami-book-fair-linda-rodriguez-bernfeld--45072593http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=8123Sun, 20 Nov 2016 12:48:45 +0000Helium Radio Network952cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2016-miami-book-fair-lawrence-levy--45072652http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=8122Sun, 20 Nov 2016 12:46:02 +0000Helium Radio NetworkLawrence H. Levy is a highly regarded film and TV writer who is a Writers Guild Award winner and two-time Emmy nominee. He has written for various hit TV shows such as Family Ties, Saved by the Bell, Roseanne, and Seinfeld. His first novel, Second...635cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2016-miami-book-fair-lauren-gibaldi--45072654http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=8121Sun, 20 Nov 2016 12:43:09 +0000Helium Radio NetworkLauren Gibaldi is a public librarian who's been, among other things, a magazine editor, high school English teacher, bookseller, and circus aerialist. She is the author of the contemporary YA novel The Night We Said Yes and the novella, Matt’s Story....741cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2016-miami-book-fair-katharine-mcgee--45072634http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=8120Sun, 20 Nov 2016 12:39:32 +0000Helium Radio NetworkKatharine McGee studied English and French literature at Princeton and has an MBA from Stanford. It was during her years living in a second-floor apartment in New York City that she kept daydreaming about skyscrapers— and then she started writing. The...611cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2016-miami-book-fair-kaitlyn-greenidge--45072603http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=8119Sun, 20 Nov 2016 12:37:48 +0000Helium Radio Network  Kaitlyn Greenidge’s work has appeared in The Believer, American Short Fiction, Guernica, Kweli Journal, The Feminist Wire, Afro Pop Magazine, Green Mountains Review and other places. She is the recipient of fellowships from Lower Manhattan Community...595cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2016-miami-book-fair-jonah-winter--45072637http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=8118Sun, 20 Nov 2016 12:32:53 +0000Helium Radio NetworkJonah Winter, author of the New York Times bestselling picture-book biography Barack, has written more than thirty highly-acclaimed books for children, including Lillian’s Right to Vote; You Never Heard of Sandy Koufax?!, an ALA-ALSC Notable...886cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2016-miami-book-fair-john-p-david--45072605http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=8117Sun, 20 Nov 2016 12:29:53 +0000Helium Radio NetworkFor more than 25 years, John P. David has counseled businesses and executives on strategic communications and marketing issues, from simple publicity campaigns to how to extract a business from the clutches of a multimillion-dollar Ponzi scheme. His...1005cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2016-miami-book-fair-janis-newman--45072610http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=8116Sun, 20 Nov 2016 12:27:31 +0000Helium Radio NetworkJanis Cooke Newman is the author of the novel Mary: Mrs. A. Lincoln and of the memoir, The Russian Word for Snow. She is a member of the San Francisco Writers' Grotto, on the board of Litquake, and a founder and organizer of the Lit Camp writers...723cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2016-miami-book-fair-janine-joseph--45072608http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=8115Sun, 20 Nov 2016 12:24:42 +0000Helium Radio NetworkJanine Joseph is the author of Driving without a License (Alice James Books), winner of the Kundiman Poetry Prize. Her poems and essays about growing up undocumented in America have appeared in Kenyon Review Online, Best New Poets, Best American...632cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2016-miami-book-fair-claire-legrand--45072647http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=8114Sun, 20 Nov 2016 12:21:46 +0000Helium Radio NetworkClaire LeGrand's first novel was The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls, a New York Public Library Best Book for Children in 2012. She is also the author of The Year of Shadows and Winterspell, a young adult retelling of The Nutcracker. She is one of...558cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2016-miami-book-fair-cammie-mcgovern--45072649http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=8113Sun, 20 Nov 2016 12:18:01 +0000Helium Radio NetworkCammie McGovern is the author of Say What You Will, as well as the adult novels Neighborhood Watch, Eye Contact, and The Art of Seeing. Cammie is also one of the founders of Whole Children, a resource center that runs after-school classes and programs...810cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2016-miami-book-fair-mark-kurlansky--45072648http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=8112Sun, 20 Nov 2016 12:13:42 +0000Helium Radio NetworkMark Kurlansky is the New York Times best-selling author of twenty-eight books, including Cod and Salt, and a former foreign correspondent for the International Herald Tribune, the Chicago Tribune, the Miami Herald, and the Philadelphia...582cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2016-miami-book-fair-maria-carla-chicuen--45072663http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=8111Sun, 20 Nov 2016 12:08:56 +0000Helium Radio NetworkBorn in Havana, Cuba, María Carla Chicuén moved to the United States as a teenager and completed middle and high school in Florida. In 2010, she obtained her Bachelor´s Degree with High Honors in History from Harvard University, and a Master´s Degree...799cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2016-miami-book-fair-tracey-tynan--45072643http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=8110Sun, 20 Nov 2016 12:06:06 +0000Helium Radio NetworkTracey Tynan is a costume designer and writer. Her credits include the movies The Big Easy, Blind Date, Great Balls of Fire, and Tuesdays with Morrie. Her new book, Wear and Tear: The Threads of My Life (Scribner) is a candid, entertaining memoir told...588cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2016-miami-book-fair-tom-hart--45072616http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=8109Sun, 20 Nov 2016 12:02:41 +0000Helium Radio Network  Tom Hart is a New York Times bestselling author and critically acclaimed Eisner-nominated cartoonist and the Executive Director of The Sequential Artists Workshop in Gainesville, Florida. He is the creator of Daddy Lightning, and the Hutch Owen...310cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2016-miami-book-fair-thomas-swick--45072620http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=8108Sun, 20 Nov 2016 12:00:13 +0000Helium Radio NetworkThomas Swick is the author of the travel memoir Unquiet Days: At Home in Poland, and a collection of travel stories, A Way to See the World: From Texas to Transylvania with a Maverick Traveler. For nearly two decades, Swick was the travel editor of...793cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2016-miami-book-fair-ted-geltner--45072613http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=8107Sun, 20 Nov 2016 11:56:49 +0000Helium Radio NetworkTed Geltner is an associate professor of journalism at Valdosta State University, and author of Last King of the Sports Page: The Life and Career of Jim Murray. He worked for seventeen years as a writer and editor at a number of newspapers, including...1655cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2016-miami-book-fair-susan-daitch--45072651http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=8106Sun, 20 Nov 2016 11:52:57 +0000Helium Radio NetworkSusan Daitch is the author of the novels Paper Conspiracies, L.C., The Colorist, and a collection of short stories, Storytown. A satiric, post-colonial adventure story of mythic proportions, The Lost Civilization of Suolucidir (City Lights Publishers)...573cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2016-miami-book-fair-sharon-millar--45072632http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=8105Sun, 20 Nov 2016 11:49:12 +0000Helium Radio NetworkSharon Millar is the winner of the 2013 Commonwealth Short Story Prize and the 2012 Small Axe Short Fiction Award. In 2013 she was also shortlisted for the Hollick Arvon Caribbean Writer’s Prize for fiction. A past NGC Bocas Lit New Talent Showcase...800cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2016-miami-book-fair-roxanna-elden--45072665http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=8104Sun, 20 Nov 2016 11:46:16 +0000Helium Radio NetworkRoxanna Elden has been a teacher for eleven years, most of them at Hialeah High School in Miami. She is the author of See Me After Class: Advice for Teachers by Teachers. Her inspiration for the illustrated children’s book Rudy’s New Human (Sky Pony...928cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2016-miami-book-fair-ross-king--45072653http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=8103Sun, 20 Nov 2016 11:43:36 +0000Helium Radio NetworkRoss King is the author of Brunelleschi's Dome, Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling, The Judgment of Paris, Leonardo and the Last Supper, and Machiavelli: Philosopher of Power, along with two novels, Ex Libris and Domino. He has twice won Canada's...829cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2016-miami-book-fair-richard-blanco--45072666http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=8102Sun, 20 Nov 2016 11:40:20 +0000Helium Radio NetworkRichard Blanco is the fifth inaugural poet in U.S. history—the youngest, first Latino, immigrant, and gay person to serve in such a role. Born in Madrid to Cuban exiled parents and raised in Miami, the negotiation of cultural identity and place...787cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2016-miami-book-fair-matt-phelan--45072617http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=8181Sun, 20 Nov 2016 11:16:26 +0000Helium Radio NetworkMatt Phelan is the author-illustrator of three previous graphic novels: the Scott O’Dell Award–winning The Storm in the Barn, Around the World, and Bluffton, which was nominated for three Eisner Awards. He is the author-illustrator of Druthers and the...614cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2016-miami-book-fair-yosmar-martinez--45072672http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=8180Sun, 20 Nov 2016 11:14:24 +0000Helium Radio NetworkYosmar Monique Martinez is a cookbook author and culinary instructor who believes everyone has the gift to create a memorable meal. Martinez attended the renowned culinary school Le Cordon Bleu in Paris, France. While in Paris, she had an opportunity...686cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2016-miami-book-fair-george-o-connor--45072621http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=8179Sun, 20 Nov 2016 11:12:18 +0000Helium Radio NetworkGeorge O'Connor is a New York Times-bestselling author and illustrator of the Olympians series as well as such graphic novels as Journey into Mohawk Country and Ball Peen Hammer. In addition to his graphic novel career, Mr. O'Connor has published...723cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2016-miami-book-fair-james-grippando--45072657http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=8178Sun, 20 Nov 2016 11:09:30 +0000Helium Radio NetworkJames Grippando’s first job out of law school plunged him headlong into death penalty cases. That experience was an inspiration for his 1994 debut novel,The Pardon, a legal thriller that critics heralded as a “bona fide blockbuster.”  Grippando has...755cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2016-miami-book-fair-james-hannibal--45072659http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=8177Sun, 20 Nov 2016 11:04:27 +0000Helium Radio NetworkJames R. Hannibal is no stranger to deep dark secrets or hunting bad guys, having served in the US Air Force as a stealth bomber pilot and a Predator mission commander. He is also the award-winning of author of adult military thrillers, including the...810cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2016-miami-book-fair-kim-addonizio--45072674http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=8176Sun, 20 Nov 2016 11:01:17 +0000Helium Radio NetworkKim Addonizio is an award-winning author of fiction, essays, and poetry. She has received numerous honors for her work, including the John Ciardi Lifetime Achievement Award and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for...568cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2016-miami-book-fair-barbara-taylor--45072671http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=8175Sun, 20 Nov 2016 10:58:07 +0000Helium Radio NetworkBarbara J. Taylor was born and raised in Scranton, PA, and teaches English in the Pocono Mountain School District. She has a master’s degree in creative writing from Wilkes University. Her debut novel, Sing in the Morning, Cry at Night was a Publisher...592cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2016-miami-book-fair-eddie-pittman--45072680http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=8174Sun, 20 Nov 2016 10:54:43 +0000Helium Radio NetworkEddie Pittman has been a professional cartoonist for 25 years, working in comics, humorous illustration, and animated feature films, such as Disney's Mulan, Tarzan, and Lilo & Stitch. He was also a writer and story artist for Disney's hit series,...708cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2016-miami-book-fair-geoffrey-philp--45072687http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=8173Sun, 20 Nov 2016 10:52:24 +0000Helium Radio NetworkBorn in Jamaica, Geoffrey Philp has published two novels, five volumes of poetry, two short-story collections, and three children’s books. His work is represented in nearly every anthology of Caribbean literature, and he is one of the few writers...717cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2016-miami-book-fair-rajiv-mohabir--45072690http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=8101Sun, 20 Nov 2016 09:48:49 +0000Helium Radio NetworkAuthor of The Taxidermist’s Cut (Four Way Books 2016) which won the 2014 Intro to Poetry Prize, Rajiv Mohabir is also the winner of the 2015 AWP Intro Journal Award and the 2015 Kundiman Prize, received a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant. He received...527cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2016-miami-book-fair-nathan-hill--45072694http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=8100Sun, 20 Nov 2016 09:46:54 +0000Helium Radio NetworkNathan Hill‘s short fiction has appeared in many literary journals, including The Iowa Review, AGNI, The Gettysburg Review, and Fiction, where he was awarded the annual Fiction Prize. In Hill’s debut novel, The Nix (Knopf), a college professor and...527cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2016-miami-book-fair-mike-creeden--45072656http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=8099Sun, 20 Nov 2016 09:44:10 +0000Helium Radio Network Mike Creeden’s writing has appeared in Tigertail, Miami Living, The Florida Book Review, Everything is Broken, and Trouble in the Heartland: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Bruce Springsteen. In his debut novel, All Your Lies Came True (Gutter...573cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2016-miami-book-fair-benjamin-percy--45072662http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=8046Sun, 20 Nov 2016 06:43:45 +0000Helium Radio NetworkBenjamin Percy is the author of the novels Red Moon and The Wilding, and two short story collections, Refresh, Refresh and The Language of Elk. His writing has appeared in Esquire, GQ, Time, Tin House and elsewhere. His honors include the Pushcart...705cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2016-miami-book-fair-brenda-miller--45072695http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=8043Sun, 20 Nov 2016 06:29:45 +0000Helium Radio Network  Brenda Miller is the author of four previous essay collections: Who You Will Become, Listening Against the Stone, Blessing of the Animals, and Season of the Body. She also co-authored Tell It Slant: Creating, Refining and Publishing Creative...647cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2015-miami-book-fair-toni-tipton-martin--45072660http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=6231Sun, 22 Nov 2015 03:51:31 +0000Helium Radio NetworkToni Tipton-Martin is co-author of A Taste of Heritage: The New African American Cuisine, contributor to Culinaria: The United States, and editor of a new edition of The Blue Grass Cook Book by Minnie C. Fox. Her latest book is The Jemima Code: Two...1158miami book fair 2015,toni tipton-martincleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2015-miami-book-fair-craig-thompson--45072623http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=6230Sun, 22 Nov 2015 03:50:42 +0000Helium Radio NetworkCraig Thompson is an Eisner Award-winning graphic novelist best known for his books Good-Bye, Chunky Rice, Blankets, Carnet de Voyage and Habibi. Thompson has received three Eisner Awards, four Harvey Awards, and two Ignatz Awards. In 2007, his cover...892author,craig thompson,miami book fair 2015,novelist,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2015-miami-book-fair-mirta-ojito--45072673http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=6229Sun, 22 Nov 2015 03:49:41 +0000Helium Radio NetworkMirta Ojito has been a reporter since 1987, and has worked for the Miami Herald, El Nuevo Herald, and the New York Times. She has received numerous awards, including a shared 2001 Pulitzer Prize for a series of articles in the Times about race in...1066miami book fair 2015,mirta ojito,new york times,reportercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2015-miami-book-fair-marie-mutsuki-mockett--45072702http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=6228Sun, 22 Nov 2015 03:48:40 +0000Helium Radio NetworkMarie Mutsuki Mockett’s novel Picking Bones from Ash was shortlisted for the 2010 Saroyan Prize and the Asian American Literary Awards for Fiction and was a finalist for the Paterson Prize. She has written for the New York Times, Salon, National...755author,marie mutsuki mockett,miami book fair 2015,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2015-miami-book-fair-thane-rosenbaum--45072706http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=6227Sun, 22 Nov 2015 03:47:23 +0000Helium Radio NetworkThane Rosenbaum is the author of the novels, The Stranger Within Sarah Stein, The Golems of Gotham, Second Hand Smoke, and Elijah Visible. His essays appear frequently in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and Huffington Post. A...666author,miami book fair 2015,thane rosenbaumcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2015-miami-book-fair-alan-jackowitz--45072679http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=6226Sun, 22 Nov 2015 03:46:45 +0000Helium Radio NetworkBrooklyn native, Alan Jackowitz grew up with the sound of rock and roll and adding machines. No, I’m Not Drunk!: Taming My Parkinson’s With Humor, Music and Charity (abj) is his first book. Struck with Parkinson’s at age 50, Jackowitz’s life was...848alan jackowitz,author,miami book fair 2015,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2015-miami-book-fair-harry-lembeck--45072669http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=6224Sun, 22 Nov 2015 03:45:27 +0000Helium Radio NetworkHarry Lembeck, a retired attorney, is a freelance writer and a recognized Theodore Roosevelt historian. He has spoken about Roosevelt at meetings and seminars of historical organizations and acted as a historical advisor for a PBS program on peonage...1173harry lembeck,miami book fair 2015,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2015-miami-book-fair-andrea-mays--45072685http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=6223Sun, 22 Nov 2015 03:44:28 +0000Helium Radio NetworkAndrea E. Mays has degrees in economics from SUNY Binghamton and from UCLA, and teaches economics at California State University at Long Beach. The Millionaire and the Bard: Henry Folger’s Obsessive Hunt for Shakespeare’s First Folio (Simon &...784andrea mays,miami book fair 2015,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2015-miami-book-fair-rita-gabis--45072693http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=6222Sun, 22 Nov 2015 03:02:46 +0000Helium Radio NetworkRita Gabis is an award-winning poet and prose writer. Her grants and fellowships include a New York Foundation for the Arts Award for creative nonfiction and residencies at Yaddo and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts. She is the...830miami book fair 2015,rita gabis,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2015-miami-book-fair-jessica-fievre--45072625http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=6221Sun, 22 Nov 2015 03:00:56 +0000Helium Radio NetworkM.J. (Jessica) Fievre published her first mystery novel at the age of sixteen. She went on to author nine books in French. Her children’s book, I Am Riding, is written in three languages: English, French, and Haitian Creole. Fievre lived in...977author,jessica fievre,miami book fair 2015,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2015-miami-book-fair-ruth-behar--45072676http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=6220Sun, 22 Nov 2015 02:59:27 +0000Helium Radio NetworkRuth Behar is a MacArthur Award-winning writer and a cultural anthropologist known for her work about the search for home in our global era. She was born in Havana, Cuba, and frequently visits and writes about her native Cuba. Among her books, she is...680miami book fair 2015,ruth behar,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2015-miami-book-fair-asher-price--45072667http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=6219Sun, 22 Nov 2015 02:57:34 +0000Helium Radio NetworkAsher Price covers energy and the environment for the Austin American-Statesman. He studied English at Yale, and has graduate degrees in public policy and journalism from Oxford and Columbia. He is the co-author of The Great Texas Wind Rush. By...1115asher price,journalist,miami book fair 2015cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2015-miami-book-fair-jeffrey-lieberman--45072683http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=6190Sun, 22 Nov 2015 02:50:53 +0000Helium Radio NetworkJeffrey A. Lieberman, MD, is the Lawrence C. Kolb Professor and Chairman of Psychiatry at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and Director of the New York State Psychiatric Institute. Formerly the President of the American...1225jeffrey lieberman,miami book fair 2015cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2015-miami-book-fair-richard-polt--45072715http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=6191Sun, 22 Nov 2015 02:50:20 +0000Helium Radio NetworkRichard Polt is the creator and webmaster of The Classic Typewriter Page and the blog Typewriter Revolution. For over twenty years, he has been pursuing his love of the typewriter as a collector, webmaster, blogger, magazine editor, repairman―and...929miami book fair 2015,richard poltcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2015-miami-book-fair-thrity-umrigar--45072675http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=6192Sun, 22 Nov 2015 02:49:16 +0000Helium Radio NetworkThrity Umrigar is the author of five other novels—The World We Found, The Weight of Heaven, The Space Between Us, If Today Be Sweet, and Bombay Time—and the memoir First Darling of the Morning. An award-winning journalist, she has been a contributor...1066author,miami book fair 2015,thrity umrigarcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2015-miami-book-fair-howard-axelrod--45072668http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=6080Sat, 21 Nov 2015 09:41:59 +0000Helium Radio NetworkHoward Axelrod’s work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Shambhala Sun, and the Boston Globe, among other publications. Blinded in one eye during a pick-up game of basketball, Axelrod retreated to a jerry-rigged house in the Vermont woods,...712howard axelrod,miami book fair 2015,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2015-miami-book-fair-robert-moehling--45072630http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=6077Sat, 21 Nov 2015 09:40:16 +0000Helium Radio NetworkRobert Moehling teams up with South Florida historian Cesar A. Becerra in Robert Is Here: Looking East for a Lifetime, a definitive history book of the fruit stand that became a South Florida landmark. Historian Cesar Becerra is the author of...773cesar becerra,historian,miami book fair 2015,robert moehlingcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2015-miami-book-fair-brian-bandell--45072726http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=6075Sat, 21 Nov 2015 09:35:53 +0000Helium Radio NetworkBrian Bandell is the senior reporter at the South Florida Business Journal and has won more than twenty-five awards for his reporting. He has twice won a Green Eyeshade for best business enterprise reporting in the Southeast. In Bandell’s...872brian bandell,famous-after-death,miami book fair 2015,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2015-miami-book-fair-conor-mccreery--45072689http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=6073Sat, 21 Nov 2015 09:34:14 +0000Helium Radio NetworkConor McCreery is the co-founder of Kill Shakespeare Entertainment. Previously, he was a print and television journalist on three continents covering everything from the NBA, to stock-market apocalypses, to celebrity gossip. His work has been featured...885conor mccreery,miami book fair 2015,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2015-miami-book-fair-leslie-kemp-poole--45072727http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=6071Sat, 21 Nov 2015 09:32:33 +0000Helium Radio NetworkLeslie Kemp Poole is adjunct professor in the Environmental Studies and History departments at Rollins College. She is the author of Maitland. Her latest book is Saving Florida: Women’s Fight for the Environment in the Twentieth Century (University...678leslie kemp poole,miami book fair 2015,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2015-miami-book-fair-lyn-millner--45072691http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=6067Sat, 21 Nov 2015 09:27:55 +0000Helium Radio NetworkLyn Millner is associate professor of journalism at Florida Gulf Coast University. She has written and produced stories for NPR’s Morning Edition, the New York Times, USA Today, the Miami Herald, Oxford American and others. The Allure of Immortality:...1102journalist,lyn millner,miami book fair 2015,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2015-miami-book-fair-jacinda-townsend--45072631http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=6065Sat, 21 Nov 2015 09:26:39 +0000Helium Radio NetworkJacinda Townsend studied at Harvard University and Duke University Law School before receiving her MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She lives in Bloomington, Indiana, and teaches creative writing at Indiana University. Saint Monkey (W.W. Norton &...958jacinda townsend,miami book fair 2015,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2015-miami-book-fair-rufus-jones-jr--45072684http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=6063Sat, 21 Nov 2015 09:25:14 +0000Helium Radio NetworkRufus Jones Jr. is an orchestral conductor, published author, and educator. His research has focused on African American classical musicians. Dr. Jones has conducted orchestras of all levels for over two decades and is in demand as a guest conductor,...897miami book fair 2015,rufus jones jr.,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2015-miami-book-fair-amanda-harris--45072677http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=6061Sat, 21 Nov 2015 09:23:48 +0000Helium Radio NetworkAmanda Harris is a former editor and reporter for Newsday, the daily newspaper of Long Island. She has written for the Boston Record-American/Herald Traveler and [MORE], the journalism review. In Fruits of Eden: David Fairchild and America’s Plant...1023amanda harris,miami book fair 2015,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2015-miami-book-fair-ray-kelly--45072688http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=6262Sat, 21 Nov 2015 09:22:10 +0000Helium Radio NetworkWith fifty years in public service, Ray Kelly is one of the world’s most highly esteemed law enforcement leaders. A forty-three-year veteran of the NYPD, Kelly served in twenty-five different commands before being named police commissioner in 1992....955miami book fair 2015,nypd,ray kelly,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2015-miami-book-fair-les-standiford--45072700http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=6059Sat, 21 Nov 2015 09:19:21 +0000Helium Radio NetworkLes Standiford is the bestselling author of more than twenty books and novels, including the John Deal mystery series, and the works of narrative history The Man Who Invented Christmas (a New York Times Editor’s Choice) and Last Train to Paradise. He...952les standiford,miami book fair 2015,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2015-miami-book-fair-seth-m-siegel--45072639http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=6057Sat, 21 Nov 2015 09:17:17 +0000Helium Radio NetworkSeth M. Siegel is a lawyer, activist, writer, and entrepreneur. His have appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and in other publications. Siegel is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a highly...1020miami book fair 2015,seth m. siegel,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2015-miami-book-fair-diane-roberts--45072733http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=6055Sat, 21 Nov 2015 09:14:18 +0000Helium Radio NetworkDiane Roberts is Professor of English at Florida State University in Tallahassee. She is the author of Dream State: Eight Generations of Swamp Lawyers, Conquistadors, Confederate Daughters, Banana Republicans, and other Florida Wildlife; Faulkner and...1014diane roberts,miami book fair 2015,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2015-miami-book-fair-doug-merlino--45072641http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=6052Sat, 21 Nov 2015 09:04:41 +0000Helium Radio NetworkDoug Merlino is a veteran journalist who has written for Wired, Men’s Journal, Legal Affairs, and many other publications. He is author of The Hustle. His latest book, Beast: Blood, Struggle, and Dreams at the Heart of Mixed Martial Arts (Bloomsbury...1124doug merlino,miami book fair 2015,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2014-miami-book-fair-victoria-tennant--45072699http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=3073Sat, 22 Nov 2014 23:25:34 +0000Helium Radio Network  Emmy and Golden Globe nominated actress Victoria Tennant played the title role in her first film, The Ragman’s Daughter, in 1972. Among her many film credits, she has appeared in The Handmaid’s Tale, LA Story, All of Me, the television mini-series...1201doug merlino,miami book fair 2015,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2014-miami-book-fair-vanessa-manko--45072678http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=3071Sat, 22 Nov 2014 23:23:43 +0000Helium Radio Network  Vanessa Manko earned her MFA in creative writing from Hunter College. She has taught writing at NYU and SUNY Purchase. She has been published in Granta. Her debut novel is The Invention of Exile (Penguin Press; $26.95). Salman Rushdie writes, “The...864doug merlino,miami book fair 2015,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2014-miami-book-fair-steven-pressman--45072737http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=3070Sat, 22 Nov 2014 23:21:46 +0000Helium Radio Network  Steven Pressman was a magazine and newspaper journalist for more than thirty years. His articles have appeared in many national newspapers including, the Washington Post, San Francisco Examiner, California Journal and George magazine. He is the...1010doug merlino,miami book fair 2015,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2014-miami-book-fair-sarah-wildman--45072738http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=3068Sat, 22 Nov 2014 23:19:05 +0000Helium Radio Network  Sarah Wildman has reported across Europe and the Middle East for the New York Times, Slate, and theNew Yorker, among other publications; she is a former New Republic staffer. She is the recipient of the Peter R. Weitz Prize from the German Marshall...803doug merlino,miami book fair 2015,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2014-miami-book-fair-paul-austin--45072697http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=3066Sat, 22 Nov 2014 23:16:20 +0000Helium Radio Network  Paul Austin is an emergency-room doctor, and the author of a previous memoir, Something for the Pain. His essays have appeared in Creative Nonfiction, the Southeast Review, and the Gettysburg Review. In 1987, Paul Austin, a medical student, and his...900doug merlino,miami book fair 2015,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2014-miami-book-fair-marilyn-johnson--45072640http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=3065Sat, 22 Nov 2014 23:12:04 +0000Helium Radio Network  Marilyn Johnson is the author of This Book Is Overdue! and The Dead Beat, which was a Borders Original Voices selection and a finalist for the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award. Her latest book is Lives in Ruins: Archaeologists and the...648doug merlino,miami book fair 2015,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2014-miami-book-fair-lucinda-franks--45072696http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=3064Sat, 22 Nov 2014 23:09:14 +0000Helium Radio Network  Lucinda Franks is the author of a memoir, My Father’s Secret War. A former staff writer for the New York Times, she has also written for the New Yorker, the New York Times magazine, and the Atlantic. She won a Pulitzer Prize for her reporting on the...705doug merlino,miami book fair 2015,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2014-miami-book-fair-libby-o-connell--45072642http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=3063Sat, 22 Nov 2014 23:06:49 +0000Helium Radio NetworkLibby O'Connell is Senior Vice President of Corporate Outreach and Chief Historian to the History Channel. She is the author of several books, including Save Our History, White House–200th Anniversary andHistory of Halloween. Her latest book is The...790doug merlino,miami book fair 2015,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2014-miami-book-fair-kate-christensen--45072682http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=3061Sat, 22 Nov 2014 23:04:55 +0000Helium Radio Network  Kate Christensen is the author of six novels, and the memoir Blue Plate Special. Her novel The Great Man won the 2008 PEN/Faulkner Award. She has published reviews and essays in numerous publications, most recently the New York Times Book...821doug merlino,miami book fair 2015,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2014-miami-book-fair-joe-clifford--45072704http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=3060Sat, 22 Nov 2014 23:01:03 +0000Helium Radio Network  Since getting off of the streets, where he spent most of the 1990s, Joe Clifford has made writing his life. He is a “rock ‘n’ roll” writer who comes from a cutting-edge background and has successfully transitioned to the mainstream, which allows him...790doug merlino,miami book fair 2015,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2014-miami-book-fair-joachim-de-posada--45072645http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=3058Sat, 22 Nov 2014 22:59:00 +0000Helium Radio Network  Joachim de Posada is a bilingual international motivational speaker, radio and TV personality, author of four books, and newspaper columnist. He has spoken in more than sixty countries about leadership, team building, sales and management. His...769doug merlino,miami book fair 2015,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2014-miami-book-fair-denis-kitchen--45072703http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=3056Sat, 22 Nov 2014 22:56:41 +0000Helium Radio Network  In 1969, cartoonist, writer, and alternative publishing pioneer, Denis Kitchen founded Kitchen Sink Press, an innovative house that, until it folded in 1999, published early and new graphic works by some of the most recognized artists in the...1093doug merlino,miami book fair 2015,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2014-miami-book-fair-bradford-morrow--45072701http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=3055Sat, 22 Nov 2014 22:51:21 +0000Helium Radio Network  Bradford Morrow is the author of seven novels and a short story collection, including The Diviner’s Tale, Ariel’s Crossing, Giovanni’s Gift, Trinity Fields, The Almanac Branch, and Come Sunday. He is the founding editor of the literary journal...559doug merlino,miami book fair 2015,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2014-miami-book-fair-angela-diterlizzi--45072714http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=3054Sat, 22 Nov 2014 22:48:02 +0000Helium Radio Network  Angela DiTerlizzi is a former film, television, and rock and roll visual make-up artist whose credits includeSaturday Night Live, MTV, VH1, E!, Conan O'Brien and the Today show; bands such as Depeche Mode, Metallica, The Dave Matthews Band and Duran...640doug merlino,miami book fair 2015,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2014-miami-book-fair-adam-tanner--45072650http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=3050Sat, 22 Nov 2014 22:42:44 +0000Helium Radio Network  Adam Tanner writes about the business of personal data. He is a fellow at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University and was previously a Nieman fellow. Tanner has worked for Reuters News Agency as Balkans bureau chief...457doug merlino,miami book fair 2015,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2014-miami-book-fair-aaron-their--45072709http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=3048Sat, 22 Nov 2014 22:37:26 +0000Helium Radio Network  Aaron Thier’s essays have appeared in the Nation, the New Republic, and the Buenos Aires Review. He is a graduate of Yale University and of the MFA program at the University of Florida. The Ghost Apple(Bloomsbury Press; $26.00) is his first novel....666doug merlino,miami book fair 2015,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2014-miami-book-fair-tamara-green-shannon-adams--45072712http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=3109Sat, 22 Nov 2014 20:22:46 +0000Helium Radio Network620doug merlino,miami book fair 2015,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2014-miami-book-fair-salar-abdoh--45072658http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=3108Sat, 22 Nov 2014 20:20:11 +0000Helium Radio NetworkSalar Abdoh, was born in Iran, and splits his time between Tehran and New York City, where he is co-director of the Creative Writing MFA Program at the City College of New York. He is the author of The Poet Game and Opium. His essays and short stories...883doug merlino,miami book fair 2015,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2014-miami-book-fair-maria-venegas--45072655http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=3107Sat, 22 Nov 2014 20:17:18 +0000Helium Radio Network  Maria Venegas was born in the state of Zacatecas, Mexico, and immigrated to the United States when she was four years old. Venegas’ short stories and memoir excerpts have appeared in Ploughshares, Granta, the Guardian, and Huizache. She has taught...696doug merlino,miami book fair 2015,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2014-miami-book-fair-jennifer-bisram--45072713http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=3105Sat, 22 Nov 2014 20:12:49 +0000Helium Radio Network  Jennifer Bisram is a television reporter and now an author. Her book, First Day of School: Do You Want to be My Friend? is a celebration of diversity and friendship in the classroom. It is her first children's book, but she's always had a love for...953doug merlino,miami book fair 2015,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2014-miami-book-fair-don-george--45072717http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=3104Sat, 22 Nov 2014 20:10:17 +0000Helium Radio NetworkNational Geographic has called Don George “a legendary travel writer and editor.” George wrote the bestselling Lonely Planet Guide to Travel Writing, and has edited ten acclaimed literary travel anthologies, including A Moveable Feast, The Kindness of...871doug merlino,miami book fair 2015,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2013-miami-book-fair-noviolent-bulawayo--45072719http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=7754Wed, 11 Dec 2013 02:38:22 +0000Helium Radio Network699doug merlino,miami book fair 2015,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2013-miami-book-fair-john-moeller--45072742http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=7753Wed, 11 Dec 2013 02:35:24 +0000Helium Radio Network666doug merlino,miami book fair 2015,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2013-miami-book-fair-joe-clifford--45072661http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=7752Wed, 11 Dec 2013 02:33:35 +0000Helium Radio Network1094doug merlino,miami book fair 2015,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2013-miami-book-fair-joan-hilty--45072729http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=7751Wed, 11 Dec 2013 02:31:07 +0000Helium Radio Network788doug merlino,miami book fair 2015,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2013-miami-book-fair-brenda-wineapple--45072722http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=7750Wed, 11 Dec 2013 02:28:59 +0000Helium Radio Network929doug merlino,miami book fair 2015,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2013-miami-book-fair-apple-e-book--45072721http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=7749Wed, 11 Dec 2013 02:26:50 +0000Helium Radio Network397doug merlino,miami book fair 2015,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2013-miami-book-fair-evelyn-mcdonnell--45072686http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=7747Wed, 11 Dec 2013 02:24:05 +0000Helium Radio Network964doug merlino,miami book fair 2015,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2013-miami-book-fair-jeff-klinkenberg--45072731http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=7745Wed, 11 Dec 2013 02:16:32 +0000Helium Radio Network906doug merlino,miami book fair 2015,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2013-miami-book-fair-edna-buchanan--45072749http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=545Tue, 10 Dec 2013 23:06:41 +0000Helium Radio Network  Edna Buchanan's epic novel A Dark and Lonely Place (Simon & Schuster; $15.00) blends the true story of Florida's most notorious outlaw couple with their fictional descendants who share the same love and dangers a hundred years later. "Ambitious,...1143doug merlino,miami book fair 2015,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2013-miami-book-fair-greg-bellow--45072670http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=544Tue, 10 Dec 2013 23:03:43 +0000Helium Radio Network  Saul Bellow's Heart:  A Son's Memoir (Bloomsbury; $26.00) offers a warm yet honest look inside the life of the Nobel Prize winner and one of America's greatest 20th century writers. Greg Bellow gives equal weight to the rebellious, irreverent, and...1002doug merlino,miami book fair 2015,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2013-miami-book-fair-james-grippando--45072730http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=541Tue, 10 Dec 2013 22:54:15 +0000Helium Radio Network  Blood Money: A Jack Swyteck Novel (Harper; $26.99) is a thriller ripped from the headlines. When Miami defense attorney Jack Swyteck agreed to defend a sexy party girl accused of murdering her daughter, he counted on a tough case. But he didn't...940doug merlino,miami book fair 2015,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2013-miami-book-fair-jo-maeder--45072739http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=539Tue, 10 Dec 2013 22:51:44 +0000Helium Radio Network  Set in a total-immersion language school in the South of France, Jo Maeder's novel Opposites Attack(Beulahland Books; $12.99) is a story of clashing cultures and a battle of the sexes. Alyce has traveled to France to learn the language, become...1032doug merlino,miami book fair 2015,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2013-miami-book-fair-richard-blanco--45072692http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=1335Tue, 10 Dec 2013 22:51:39 +0000Helium Radio Network  When Cuban-American Richard Blanco was chosen by the White House in 2013 to be the United States Inaugural Poet, his selection marked some significant firsts—he was the first immigrant and Latino, the first openly gay, and the youngest poet ever...874doug merlino,miami book fair 2015,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2013-miami-book-fair-michael-bronski--45072720http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=1334Tue, 10 Dec 2013 22:50:52 +0000Helium Radio Network  "You Can Tell Just By Looking" And 20 Other Myths about LGBT Life and People (Beacon Press; $16.00) takes on the pervasive stereotypes and false assumptions that continue to cling to queer citizens. Authors Michael Bronski, Ann Pellegrine, and...729doug merlino,miami book fair 2015,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2013-miami-book-fair-mark-kurlansky--45072745http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=1333Tue, 10 Dec 2013 22:50:19 +0000Helium Radio Network  Ready For a Brand New Beat: How "Dancing in the Street" Became the Anthem for a Changing America(Riverhead; $27.95) is the story of how a song changed the country.  Recorded as just another upbeat dance tune, “Dancing” went on to become an activist...815doug merlino,miami book fair 2015,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2013-miami-book-fair-margaret-wrinkle--45072755http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=1332Tue, 10 Dec 2013 22:49:13 +0000Helium Radio Network  Margaret Wrinkle’s debut novel Wash (Grove/Atlantic) has been named a finalist for the Center for Fiction’s Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize and nominated for the Crook’s Corner Prize for debut Southern novel.  Wash is also a New York...976doug merlino,miami book fair 2015,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2013-miami-book-fair-josh-hanagarne--45072748http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=1331Tue, 10 Dec 2013 22:48:40 +0000Helium Radio Network  The World's Strongest Librarian: A Memoir of Tourette's, Faith, Strength, and the Power of Family (Gotham; $26.00) charts Josh Hanagarne's journey from a severe form of Tourette’s to a rich and satisfying life through the unlikely combination of...755doug merlino,miami book fair 2015,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2013-miami-book-fair-jonathan-katz--45072681http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=1330Tue, 10 Dec 2013 22:48:08 +0000Helium Radio Network  In The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster (Palgrave Macmillan; $26.00) Jonathan M. Katz, the only full-time American news correspondent in Haiti at the time of the 2010 earthquake, takes readers...949doug merlino,miami book fair 2015,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2013-miami-book-fair-jennifer-kronenborg--45072725http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=1329Tue, 10 Dec 2013 22:47:34 +0000Helium Radio Network  Part memoir, part how-to guide, So, You Want to Be a Ballet Dancer? (University Press of Florida; $14.95) includes prima ballerina Kronenberg's experiences leading up to her current position as principal dancer with the Miami City Ballet, and her...1368doug merlino,miami book fair 2015,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2013-miami-book-fair-james-reston--45072710http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=1328Tue, 10 Dec 2013 22:46:41 +0000Helium Radio Network  Was Texas governor John Connally, not President Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald's actual target on that fated day fifty years ago? Using a wealth of new detail, historian James Reston Jr. makes the case in The Accidental Victim: JFK, Lee Harvey Oswald,...689doug merlino,miami book fair 2015,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2013-miami-book-fair-brian-jay-jones--45072728http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=1327Tue, 10 Dec 2013 22:46:09 +0000Helium Radio Network  To the millions around the world who know and love his work, Jim Henson (1936-1990) is more than just the creator of the Muppets; he’s practically a member of the family. Whether it’s Muppets, Fraggles, Gelflings, or Goblin Kings, Jim Henson and his...1397doug merlino,miami book fair 2015,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2013-miami-book-fair-ayana-mathis--45072752http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=1326Tue, 10 Dec 2013 22:45:35 +0000Helium Radio Network  Mathis' debut novel, The Twelve Tribes of Hattie (Vintage; $15.95) tells the story of the children of the Great Migration through the trials of one unforgettable family. In 1923, fifteen-year-old Hattie Shepherd flees Georgia and heads north. She...653doug merlino,miami book fair 2015,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2013-miami-book-fair-kate-becker--45072723http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=1325Tue, 10 Dec 2013 22:44:09 +0000Helium Radio Network  Seven-year-old Ashley’s dream of a new playground becomes a reality in My Dream Playground, the latest children’s book by KaBOOM!. Inspired by the true story of the first KaBOOM! build, My Dream Playground is available now. All author proceeds are...716doug merlino,miami book fair 2015,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2013-miami-book-fair-samuel-freedman--45072756http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=1324Tue, 10 Dec 2013 22:43:40 +0000Helium Radio Network  In Breaking the Line: The Season in Black College Football That Transformed the Sport and Changed the Course of Civil Rights (Simon & Schuster; $28.00) journalist Samuel G. Freedman recounts the pivotal '67 season when Louisiana's Grambling College...1363doug merlino,miami book fair 2015,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2013-miami-book-fair-peter-de-jonjge--45072732http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=1323Tue, 10 Dec 2013 22:43:03 +0000Helium Radio Network  Darlene O’Hara—the brilliant, hard-living, obsessive, and somewhat self-destructive detective introduced in Peter de Jonge’s Shadows Still Remain—returns in Buried on Avenue B (Harper; $25.99). An unexpected discovery in a makeshift Alphabet City...830doug merlino,miami book fair 2015,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2013-miami-book-fair-marisa-silver--45072711http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=537Tue, 10 Dec 2013 22:42:05 +0000Helium Radio Network  In Mary Coin (Gale Group; $32.99) Marisa Silver reimagines the life of the woman pictured in Dorothea Lange’s iconic “Migrant Mother” Depression portrait, as it combines the fictionalized life of the famous photographer and the present-day college...648doug merlino,miami book fair 2015,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2013-miami-book-fair-michael-deibert--45072724http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=1321Tue, 10 Dec 2013 22:41:36 +0000Helium Radio NetworkThe Congo has been at the center of the deadliest series of conflicts since the Second World War, and now hosts the largest United Nations peacekeeping mission in the world. In Democratic Republic of Congo: Between Hope and Despair (Zed Books; $19.95)...605doug merlino,miami book fair 2015,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2013-miami-book-fair-jill-mccorkle--45072760http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=1320Tue, 10 Dec 2013 22:40:46 +0000Helium Radio Network  Jill McCorkle's novel, Life After Life (A Shannon Ravenel Book; $24.95) is set at the Pine Haven retirement center, where the residents share some of life’s most profound discoveries.  “. . . a book that will haunt me for a long time – in the best...958doug merlino,miami book fair 2015,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2013-miami-book-fair-james-hall--45072734http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=1319Tue, 10 Dec 2013 22:39:54 +0000Helium Radio Network  A radical environmental activist group sets its sights on the nuclear power plant in Turkey Point, Florida in Hall's thriller Going Dark (Minotaur Books; $25.99). When Private Investigator Thorn's son becomes involved with the group, Thorn is forced...962doug merlino,miami book fair 2015,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2013-miami-book-fair-miriam-auerbach--45072754http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=534Tue, 10 Dec 2013 22:39:41 +0000Helium Radio Network  Dirty Harriet (Bell Bridge Books; $10.95) is Miriam Auerbach's first book in her satirical mystery series featuring the Everglades-dwelling, Harley-riding, wisecracking female private eye Harriet Horowitz. Harriet hits the mean streets of Boca in...739doug merlino,miami book fair 2015,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2013-miami-book-fair-bill-ayers--45072707http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=1318Tue, 10 Dec 2013 22:38:08 +0000Helium Radio Network  Bill Ayers's memoir Public Enemy: Confessions of an American Dissident  (Beacon Press; $24.95) tells his story from the moment he and his wife emerged from years on the run as part of the radical Weather Underground to rebuild their lives as public...1369doug merlino,miami book fair 2015,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2013-miami-book-fair-ridley-pearson--45072751http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=532Tue, 10 Dec 2013 22:34:33 +0000Helium Radio Network  One of today's most successful and versatile writers, Ridley Pearson continues with the second installment of his John Knox thriller series,  Choke Point: A Risk Agent Novel  (Putnam; $26.95). Set in Amsterdam, John Knox investigates a "knot shop,"...1045doug merlino,miami book fair 2015,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2013-miami-book-fair-susie-horgan--45072743http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=530Tue, 10 Dec 2013 22:31:49 +0000Helium Radio Network  Celebrating friendships that have been bound together by music since 1979, Susie J. Horgan's largely unpublished images were taken as friend and participant on the music scene, rather than as a journalist, and are both an exceptional contribution to...666doug merlino,miami book fair 2015,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2013-miami-book-fair-evelyne-trouillot--45072765http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=526Tue, 10 Dec 2013 22:22:30 +0000Helium Radio Network  Set in 1750 in St. Domingue before it became Haiti, Evelyn Trouillot's novel The Infamous Rosalie(University of Nebraska Press; $19.95) is inspired by the tale of an African midwife who kept a cord of seventy knots, each one marking a child she had...767doug merlino,miami book fair 2015,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2013-miami-book-fair-holly-black--45072705http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=7723Tue, 10 Dec 2013 13:51:48 +0000Helium Radio Network  A doll that may be haunted leads three friends on a thrilling adventure in this illustrated mid-grade novelDoll Bones (Margaret K. McElderry; $16.99) "Nobody does spooky like Holly Black."–Jeff Kinney.   Black is the author of bestselling fantasy...790doug merlino,miami book fair 2015,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2013-miami-book-fair-anya-von-bremzen--45072718http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=7721Tue, 10 Dec 2013 13:48:25 +0000Helium Radio Network  Three-time James Beard Award-winning food writer Anya von Bremzen captures the idealism, cynicism, longing, and terror that defined Soviet life in her memoir Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing (Crown; $26.00). von...975doug merlino,miami book fair 2015,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2011-miami-book-fair-dr-vijay-vad--45072762http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=7426Sun, 06 Nov 2011 23:05:07 +0000Helium Radio Network  In Stop Pain: Inflamation Relief for an Active Life, Vijay Vad, M.D. addresses the chronic pain suffered by an estimated 50 million people.  Now, with advances in the understanding of pain, relief is possible with self-care options that reduce...524doug merlino,miami book fair 2015,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2011-miami-book-fair-terry-walters--45072746http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=7425Sun, 06 Nov 2011 23:03:13 +0000Helium Radio Network  Terry Walters' latest cookbook is, Clean Start: Inspiring You to Eat Clean and Live Well with 100 New Clean Food Recipes (Sterling Epicure, $25.00). Cooks, foodies, and anyone in search of a healthy and sustainable approach to eating and living well...668doug merlino,miami book fair 2015,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2011-miami-book-fair-sandra-gutierrez--45072757http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=7424Sun, 06 Nov 2011 23:00:56 +0000Helium Radio Network  In The New Southern-Latino Table: Recipes That Bring Together the Bold and Beloved Flavors of Latin America and the American South (University of North Carolina Press, $30.00), Sandra Gutierrez blends ingredients, traditions, and culinary...579doug merlino,miami book fair 2015,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2011-miami-book-fair-linda-gassenheimer--45072716http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=7423Sun, 06 Nov 2011 22:57:53 +0000Helium Radio Network  In Fast and Flavorful:  Great Diabetes Meals from Market to Table (American Diabetes Association, $18.95), Linda Gassenheimer proves that  preparing delicious, diabetes-friendly meals is easier than most people imagine. By using convenience foods...657doug merlino,miami book fair 2015,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2011-miami-book-fair-sandra-beasley--45072736http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=7422Sun, 06 Nov 2011 22:56:14 +0000Helium Radio Network  In Sandra Beasley's poetry collection, I Was the Jukebox (Norton, $14.95), animals, flowers and mythological creatures speak their minds in a series of tell-it-like-it-is soliloquies, illustrating a complex and imaginative landscape in which,...519doug merlino,miami book fair 2015,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2011-miami-book-fair-jeff-lindsay--45072753http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=7421Sun, 06 Nov 2011 22:54:26 +0000Helium Radio Network  A serial-killer’s work is never done.  After selling more than one million copies and inspiring the popular #1 Showtime series and top-rated crime drama on pay-cable television starring Michael C. Hall, New York Times bestselling author Jeff Lindsay...573doug merlino,miami book fair 2015,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2011-miami-book-fair-dr-arthur-agatston--45072761http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=7420Sun, 06 Nov 2011 22:49:11 +0000Helium Radio Network  In The South Beach Wake-Up Call: Why America Is Still Getting Fatter and Sicker, Plus 7 Simple Strategies for Reversing Our Toxic Lifestyle (Rodale Books, $27.99), renowned cardiologist and creator of the South Beach Diet, Dr. Arthur Agatston,...487doug merlino,miami book fair 2015,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2011-miami-book-fair-alexandra-stryon--45072759http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=7717Sun, 06 Nov 2011 11:06:38 +0000Helium Radio Network641doug merlino,miami book fair 2015,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2011-miami-book-fair-alison-thompson--45072735http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=7716Sun, 06 Nov 2011 11:04:08 +0000Helium Radio Network674doug merlino,miami book fair 2015,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2011-miami-book-fair-bill-clegg--45072744http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=7715Sun, 06 Nov 2011 11:00:11 +0000Helium Radio Network1206doug merlino,miami book fair 2015,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2011-miami-book-fair-john-dufrense--45072750http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=7714Sun, 06 Nov 2011 10:57:44 +0000Helium Radio Network466doug merlino,miami book fair 2015,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2011-miami-book-fair-lisa-napoli--45072747http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=7713Sun, 06 Nov 2011 10:55:31 +0000Helium Radio Network880doug merlino,miami book fair 2015,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2011-miami-book-fair-martha-southgate--45072741http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=7712Sun, 06 Nov 2011 10:53:12 +0000Helium Radio Network583doug merlino,miami book fair 2015,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2011-miami-book-fair-peter-selgin--45072766http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=7711Sun, 06 Nov 2011 10:50:56 +0000Helium Radio Network1441doug merlino,miami book fair 2015,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2011-miami-book-fair-river-jordan--45072758http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=7710Sun, 06 Nov 2011 10:48:49 +0000Helium Radio Network464doug merlino,miami book fair 2015,writercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2011-miami-book-fair-roy-peter-clark--45072764http://lirpodcasts.com/?post_type=podcast&p=7709Sun, 06 Nov 2011 10:43:56 +0000Helium Radio Network711doug merlino,miami book fair 2015,writercleanfull