In Conversation: On Wyman and the Florida Knights
On DemandIn Larry Baker’s novel Wyman and the Florida Knights, Peter Wyman, the most famous portrait painter in America, just wants to go into hiding and disappear. Then a cashier in […]
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In Conversation: On The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic: Revised and Expanded Edition
On DemandPublished in 2015 and reissued now with new material and an introduction by Samantha Irby, Jessica Hopper’s The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic is a […]
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In Conversation: On Picturing Cuba: Art, Culture, and Identity on the Island and in the Diaspora
On DemandEdited by Jorge Duany, director of the Cuban Research Institute and Professor of Anthropology at Florida International University, and featuring an impressive list of contributors, Picturing Cuba: Art, Culture, and […]
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In Conversation: On Downtown Miami History, Chronicling 125 Years, 1896-2021
On DemandIn Downtown Miami History, Chronicling 125 Years, 1896-2021, editor Raul Guerrero combines book excerpts, essays, articles, memoirs, trivia, interviews, and a poem by Campbell McGrath to engagingly relay the past […]
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In Conversation: On Peak Mind: Find Your Focus, Own Your Attention, Invest 12 Minutes a Day
On DemandIn Peak Mind: Find Your Focus, Own Your Attention, Invest 12 Minutes a Day, neuroscientist Amishi P. Jha, Ph.D., director of contemplative neuroscience and professor at the University of Miami, […]
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In Conversation: On The Animal Days
On DemandThe Animal Days is the translation of Keila Vall de la Ville’s Los días animales, winner of the 2018 International Latino Book Award. It follows Julia’s journey of love and […]
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In Conversation: On Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence
On DemandIn 1991, Anita F. Hill offered landmark testimony against soon-to-be Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas as a sexual menace. Her Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence is part […]
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FSG Celebrates 75 Years of Poetry: Frank Bidart & Yusef Komunyakaa
On DemandIn Against Silence: Poems, Frank Bidart writes of the cycles we cannot escape and the feelings we cannot forget. Our history is not a tabula rasa, but a repeating, refining […]
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2020 National Poetry Series Winner Trevor Ketner
On DemandThe National Poetry Series was established in 1978 to recognize and promote excellence in contemporary poetry by ensuring the publication of five books of poetry annually through participating publishers. In […]
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Loaded Terms: Poets on Identity & Truth
On DemandIn Extremely Lightweight Guns: Poems, Nikki Moustaki explores femininity in contexts that grapple with violence, mental illness, loss, love, and relationships. She probes these themes through various provocative narratives, settings, […]
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Three Poets on Hurricanes, History & the Converse MFA
On DemandWhen her Florida apartment is damaged by the ferocity of Hurricane Irma, Denise Duhamel turns to Dante and terza rima, reconstructing the form into the long poem “Terza Irma.” Throughout […]
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Hard-Earned Wisdom: Two Poets on Small Ecstasies & Difficult Loves
On DemandIn The Impossible: Poems, Deborah DeNicola explores landscapes of her own passion, her mother’s decline, and her father’s life, death, and imagined afterlife with hard-earned wisdom, transforming the personal into […]
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