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MBFI 2009 Author Interviews

By admin, September 3, 2009 4:00 pm

Hello Everyone,

I will be conducting interviews with well-known authors during the next 2 months to be broadcast over the internet. I would love to receive your feedback on their books and possibly ask them YOUR questions.

This list is growing each week and the dates are being confirmed. So, I will update this post accordingly.

Please feel free to post a comment and question. If it’s a question for the author, make sure you include your name/initials, city & state so that I can mention you On-Air.

                   November 14, 2009

* 9am: James Sturm: James Sturm’s America
* 9:15am Don Bruns on Bahama Burnout
* 9:30 a.m.- SadiA Shepard: The Girl from Foreign

* 9:45 a.m. Patricia Sullivan: Lift Every Voice: The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement 

* 10:00 a.m. Meg Cabot: Allie Finkle’s Rules for Girls

10:15 am: Paul Levine- is the author of 13 novels, most recently Illegal, a tale of human trafficking on the Mexican border. He’s written four novels featuring the squabbling Miami trial lawyers Steve Solomon and Victoria Lord, one of which, Solomon vs. Lord, was nominated for both a Macavity Award and a Thurber Prize for American Humor. The Deep Blue Alibi was nominated for an Edgar, and Kill All the Lawyers was a finalist for the International Thriller Writers Award. He won the John D. MacDonald Award for Florida Fiction for his “Jake Lassiter” TV series. He wrote 21 episodes of the TV series “JAG” and co-created First Monday, a series set in the Supreme Court starring James Garner and Joe Mantegna. Before becoming a writer, he was a lawyer in Miami, and started out as a reporter for the Miami Herald.

* 10:30 a.m. Taylor Branch: The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History With the President

* 10:45am: Roxanna Elden, See Me After Class: Advice for Teachers by Teachers
*11am- Mia Leonin: Havana and Other Missing Fathers

* 11:15 a.m. Harry Bliss: Luke on the Loose

*11:30am: Alex Simmons/color of comics art exhibit

*11:50: Archie’s Comics (ARCHIE MARRIED WHO?!!!!    

*12:05: Reading is Fundamental (Discussion of Literacy)

12:25: Graphic Artist/Novelist

* 12:45pm Ann Bardach, Without Fidel

* 1:00 p.m. Kendel Hippolyte: Night Vision and Birthright

* 1:15pm- ELIZ Harry, Melanie: Bird with a Broken Wing

* 1:30 p.m. Jo Maeder: When I Married My Mother

* 1:45 p.m.  Donald Worth: Art Deco

* 2:00pm: Polito:  Manny Farber

1M 2:30 p.m. Jeb Brugmann: Urban Revolution
 
* 2:45 p.m Elaine Viets is the author of the bestselling Josie Marcus, Mystery Shopper series; the Dead-End Jobs series; and numerous short stories. An Anthony Award and Agatha Award winner, she lives in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., with her husband. “Viets keeps the action popping until the cliff-hanging ending.”—Publishers Weekly.
1M 3:05 p.m. Joan Biskupic: Biography of Justice Scalia

* 3:25 p.m. Sid Jacobson/VLAD the Impaler

* 3:45 p.m. Abby Sallenger: Nineteenth-Century Disaster that Warns of a Warmer World

1M 4:00-4:15 p.m.) Tennessee Reed, “Spell Albuquerque: Memoir of a Difficult Student” five books of poetry include City Beautiful, Airborne, and Electric Chocolate. The daughter of novelist Ishmael Reed, she is also the author of a memoir, Spell Albuquerque: Memoir of a “Difficult” Student.
 
                    

 

 
  Sunday
                         November 15, 2009
1m 9:00 a.m. Daniel Asa Rose: Larry’s Kidney

1M 9:15 a.m. Louise Gikow: Sesame Street, A Celebration of 40 Years of Life on the Street

* 9:30 a.m. Masha Hamilton’s fourth novel, 31 Hours (Unbridled Books), explores what could turn a white, middle-class American into an Islamic suicide bomber. “Gorgeous and complex,” says Publishers Weekly, “a very tense narrative, vividly imagined and eerily plausible.” A journalist who has worked for NBC Mutual Radio, the Los Angeles Times, and the Associated Press, she is the author of The Distance Between Us and Staircase of a Thousand Steps. She lives with her family in New York City.

* 9:45 p.m. Gerald Posner: Miami Babylon

10:00 a.m.

* 11:00a.m  Robert Polito, Hollywood & God. (noon, Pav. C) cel: 845 797 7696)

* 11:45 p.m. David Wolman: Righting the Mother Tongue: From Old English to Email

* 12:00 p.m. Brian Fies: Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow?

* 12:15 p.m. Hal Niedzviecki: The Peep Diaries

1M 12:30 p.m. John Freeman: The Tyranny of E-Mail

*  12:45 p.m. Carole Weatherford: Becoming Billie Holiday

* 1:00 p.m. Robert Leleux: Memoirs of a Beautiful Boy

* 1:15 p.m. William Grimes: A Culinary History of New York

* 1:30 p.m. Larry Tye: Satchel Paige

1:45pm:

1M 2:00 p.m. Carla Harris: Proven Strategies for Success From a Wall Street Vet

* 2:15 p.m. Kathleen Kent: The Heretic’s Daughter

* 2:40 p.m. Sharon Harvey Rosenberg: 10,001 Ways to Live Large on a Small Budget

3pm

3:30 p.m. Joe Starita: Chief Standing Bear’s Journey for Justice

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