Literary Arts
Jim Gilbert: Editor, Journalist, Author
JIM GILBERT’s 35-year career as a journalist and publisher is notable in that he was always able to write about things he truly enjoyed while living in places he genuinely loved. His career began as a weekly reporter and editor on Cape Cod for the Provincetown Advocate, then shifted to San Juan, Puerto Rico, Newport, RI and finally to Ft. Lauderdale, FL, where he was the founding editor-in-chief and ultimately owner of ShowBoats International, which he started in 1988.
read moreAmy Paige Condon: Falling in Love with Bill Baggs
AMY PAIGE CONDON’S biography of “MIAMI NEWS” editor BILL BAGGS (1923-1969), A Nervous Man Shouldn’t Be Here in the First Place, the Life of Bill Baggs, was published by UGA Press in Fall 2020. Condon moved from Miami to Savannah, where she lives with her husband, three pups and a pig named Gus.
read moreDr. Yanela McLeod: Author, Educator
DR. YANELA G. MCLEOD, Ph.D. is director of Communications and Alumni Relations for the Florida A&M University (FAMU) College of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, where she is also an adjunct professor of history. McLeod has spent her professional career as an educator, journalist, and social historian. Her research specialty is the history of the Black Press, particularly in Florida. McLeod is the author of “The Miami Times and the Fight for Equality: Race, Sport, and the Black Press, 1948- 1958.”
read moreNecee Regis: Artist, Writer
NECEE REGIS has always explored creative realms, starting with the visual arts before segueing into journalism and literature. As an artist with an MFA from Mass College of Art, Regis has actively exhibited her sculptural wall pieces and works on paper in museums and galleries in Boston, Provincetown, Miami, New York City and beyond, as well as teaching classes and workshops at art centers and colleges.
read moreCroton Mammy
TESS, my wife Sally’s mother, came to live with us in our demure Miami Beach house about three years ago, before the freaking pandemic screwed up everybody’s lives. I’m sure you know that the perfect anagram for mother-in-law is “Hitler Woman.”
read moreBetween Friends:
Susan Mailer + Esther Amini
SUSAN MAILER is Norman Mailer’s first born. She grew up between Mexico City and New York, between her mother and her father.
ESTHER AMINI is a writer, painter, and psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice. “Concealed” is her first memoir.
read moreRobert Runcie: Superintendent, Broward County Public Schools (BCPS)
As superintendent of the nation’s sixth largest school district — with over 270,000 students in 337 schools and approximately 30,000 employees –- Broward County Public Schools Superintendent ROBERT W. RUNCIE is committed to “Educating Today’s Students to Succeed in Tomorrow’s World.”
read moreBOOK TALK: Peter Alson + David Michaelis
A conversation between authors PETER ALSON and DAVID MICHAELIS about their new books, “The Only Way to Play It,” and “Eleanor.”
read moreAdam Gopnik: The New Yorker Cometh to Miami.
Award-winning author and journalist ADAM GOPNIK has been a staff writer for “The New Yorker” since 1986.
read moreHoward Saltz: Newsman
Pulitzer Prize-winning editor HOWARD SALTZ (b.1960) has spent a lifetime in journalism. He got his first newspaper byline at age 12, when a weekly in the Bronx, N.Y. published his essay in its annual Mother’s Day writing contest. Most recently Saltz was the Publisher & Editor-in-Chief of the “South Florida Sun-Sentinel.” At the “Sun-Sentinel” he was responsible for all newspaper content, as well as its digital news products, the Spanish-language “El Sentinel,” and the entertainment website SouthFlorida.com. In 2013, the “Sun-Sentinel” won the most prestigious award in journalism, the Pulitzer Prize Gold Medal for Public Service.
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