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We do all it takes to feel the spirit of the holidays in South Florida -- even when it’s 80 degrees outside. For WLRN news staff, that often begins by…
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Author Patricia Engel first had the idea for her latest novel while driving in Miami with her mom more than 10 years ago.When they drove over a bridge,…
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Three members of the Swedish Academy, which awards the Nobel Prize in literature, protested its response to a simmering scandal by resigning their permanent roles. Now, the group is in a tough spot.
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The author of A Streetcar Named Desire and The Glass Menagerie did not set any of his well-known plays in Key West.But the island was his primary…
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In a new memoir, the Joy Luck Club author searches her past for the sources of her creativity. She says, "I certainly think that the bad experiences ... shaped me as a writer."
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For a lot of first-generation Cuban-Americans, Cuba is almost a myth. Grandparents talk about it at family gatherings, always insisting the music, the…
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It wasn’t at a fancy Calle Ocho hangout or even at a Cuban restaurant that the ten travelers on Cuba One Foundation’s next voyage met. It was at the…
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This week on The Florida Roundup...WLRN's Tom Hudson was live from the Miami Book Fair with a panel of authors from across the state to ponder a future in…
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Beatty won for The Sellout, a satire hailed as hilarious about the fraught subject of race in the U.S. The competition was opened recently to any author writing in English and published in the U.K.
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The Voices of Our Nation Arts foundation workshop kicked off this week at the University of Miami.VONA is a place for writers of color to hone their work…
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That’s our Zip Ode, a poetic ode to our zip code here at the studios in Miami: 33132.Your zip determines the number of words in each line of the poem. So,…
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There are a lot of mystery books set in Key West. And now there's a new addition to the list: Killer Takeout, the seventh installment in the Key West Food…