The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age

    Open Thread Miami Book Fair.

    By Oxy Mora on Sun, 11/23/2014 - 10:12am |

    The Miami Book Fair will be streamed by PBS again today, www.bookviewnow.org. The reason I keep repeating myself is that I am beside myself, because I don't have cable, C-span, and book T.V. I can access the content of these interviews.

    Today's schedule 12-6 EST.

    If you click on "Schedule" on the website, you'll get a list of interviews from Friday and Saturday plus what's coming up today. The past ones are supposed to be available on "Video on Demand" but I don't think they are archived yet.

    Of course we all know who should be featured down there, our own esteemed author. Instead they featured Chuck Todd who has written a pithy ant inside dopester hey I have the chops to host Meet the Press. Dreadful interview.

    I particularly liked Richard Ford,  Joyce Carol Oates, Ann Pachette and Norman Lear.

     

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    Shamelessly plugging my post, I hope to watch Russell Banks at 1:00---if I can make it into town, buy some plumbing parts I need, pick up a deli sandwich and half and half, and make it back here in time to watch the interview.


    by Oxy Mora on Sun, 11/23/2014 - 10:18am

    Cornel West was there yesterday discussing his new book "Black Prophetic Fire". He did a good job reminding us about Ella Baker, a forgotten hero of the Civil Rights Movement.


    by rmrd0000 on Sun, 11/23/2014 - 10:34am

    I missed most of that interview but I hope it will be archived and available to download.  


    by Oxy Mora on Sun, 11/23/2014 - 7:14pm

    I particularly liked Richard Ford,  Joyce Carol Oates, Ann Pachette and Norman Lear.

    Drooling here.  I've heard JCO before (sat across from her at dinner once, too, but she hardly said a word so that doesn't count), but the other three are favorites of mine, so that would be a real treat. 


    by Ramona on Sun, 11/23/2014 - 12:10pm

    I went to a reading and signing in LA years back. I would love to have taken a seminar with her.

    My favorite of the whole cast is Azar Naifisi and her book the Republic of Imagination. The book was panned two days ago in the NYT, which may be justified. But her message and her personal delivery of it are veryimportant----that imagination, through fiction (and Liberal Arts) is essential to our free society and we need to protect and nurture it.

    And I'm looking at you---Kochs---and school boards that ban books.


    by Oxy Mora on Sun, 11/23/2014 - 7:32pm

    Next time!


    by Michael Wolraich on Mon, 11/24/2014 - 9:16am

    You have to start wearing a signature hat like Norman Lear.


    by Oxy Mora on Mon, 11/24/2014 - 11:01am

    Miami - a swamp that's kept dry 24/7/365.


    by Beetlejuice on Mon, 11/24/2014 - 12:43pm

    They just got done installing a bunch of pumps in North Miami Beach.  They won't be able to save it for too many more decades.  The water is leaching up from the sandy shale that Miami and suburbs sit on. 


    by trkingmomoe on Mon, 11/24/2014 - 5:28pm