Open Thread Miami Book Fair.

    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.


    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.


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


    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. 


    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.


    Next time!


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


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


    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. 


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