Words Whispered in Water: Why the Levees Broke in Hurricane Katrina documents activist Sandy Rosenthal's battle to find the culprits in the catastrophic flooding of New Orleans and to unravel the cover-up that looked to protect them. She’s joined by Austin, Texas-based NPR correspondent John Burnett, whose special reporting includes covering the attacks on 9/11, […]
Part adventure guide, part personal diary, and 100% inspiring, Mary Morris’ All the Way to the Tigers – a memoir rich in personal growth, family history, and thrilling travel – is a thoughtful account of how she came back from a debilitating accident to realize a hard-won trek across India, on which, yes, she comes across a […]
The result of a nearly 30-year quest and drawing on hundreds of hours of interviews, The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X is an epic biography of one of the most politically relevant figures of the 20th century, and a labor of love for co-author Tamara Payne, who completed the work after the 2018 […]
Keeping hands clean is one of the most important steps we can take to avoid getting sick and spreading germs to others. During the COVID-19 pandemic, keeping hands clean is especially important to help prevent the virus from spreading. Listen in as our expert physician walks you through the steps you should take to ensure […]
Sue Miller’s Monogamy tells the story of Graham, a gregarious bookseller, and Annie, a shy photographer, who have been married nearly 30 years. When Graham suddenly dies, Annie wonders what, exactly, is the point of going on without him. But when she discovers a ruinous secret he kept, she’s forced her to question whether she […]
Moderated by Julio Capó Jr., FIU associate professor of history and deputy director of The Wolfsonian Public Humanities Lab. Presented in English. In the Caribbean, LGBTQ individuals live in fear of being ostracized at a minimum and physically assaulted – or even murdered – at worst. This panel celebrates the contributions of LGBTQ writers with […]
Moderated by Geoffrey Philp, author of Hurricane Center, and MJ Fievre, ReadCaribbean coordinator. Presented in English. Please note that there is a short interlude between Part I and Part II. Please stay connected. Part II will start playing shortly after Part I. Through poetry, fiction, and reportage, Caribbean writers share with the world the fury of […]
Ticket purchase required for admittance to this program; click here to purchase. In the hilarious memoir A Very Punchable Face, “Weekend Update” co-anchor and head writer at Saturday Night Live Colin Jost shares how he has found success as a slightly smarter Forrest Gump – albeit it one with a face you can’t help but […]
Environmental activist and consumer advocate Erin Brockovich’s Superman's Not Coming: Our National Water Crisis and What We the People Can Do About It is a clear, concise, and informative tool meant to empower private citizens to become their own effective advocates in ensuring the water they drink is clean. A seemingly simple expectation but one […]
In her autobiography My Time to Speak: Reclaiming Ancestry and Confronting Race, Afro-Colombian Emmy Award-winning journalist Ilia Calderón speaks out on learning about, and confronting, racism, back home and in her new country. Her experiences are reflected in Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America, the equally pognant […]
A Cry from the Far Middle: Dispatches from a Divided Land is conservative humorist P.J. O’Rourke’s look at the current state of these angry and perplexed United States. But fear not, dear readers – he says that’s what America has always been about. With wry essays on everything from our fraught history to the political […]
Adequate Yearly Progress, author and veteran educator Roxanna Elden’s first novel, draws us into life at Brae Hill Valley, a struggling high school in one the biggest cities in Texas. Hailed by the Washington Post as “a funny but insightful look at teachers in the workplace,” Adequate Yearly Progress is an exuberantly comic takedown of […]