Guests ab i am honored and have the privilege to welcome you to the virtual programs we been able to shift to. We look forward to lovely having you join us for more in the coming weeks. Before we get to the subject of the next program i want to share a little bit about some things we have coming up, things to look forward to, more virtual programs hopefully you might be interested in joining us. He will be hosting next week will be hosting ab anticorruption expert and former new York State Attorney general candidate sharing ab exploring the connection between big money and the impact on the democracy. That will be august 11 the following week we will host Rick Perlstein in a conversation with Jeffrey Toobin discussing his new book abwhich continues in the exploration we been doing with the recent history of the Pelican Party and modern american athat will be on august 19. We are also proud to partner with the ms. Foundation on an upcoming series entitled women in power 100 years after
Economics, state and city news, immigration, law and education. In her career at the wall street journal emily is held reporting and editing positions in new york, london, pittsburgh and atlanta. Tonights featured offer, melissa korn reaches a Higher Education were reported for the wall street journal previously she wrote for dow jones newswire she is a graduate of Cornell University and the Columbia University graduate school of journalism. Also we have jennifer levitz. She is a National Reporter for the wall street journal. Previously schroepfer the providence journal. She has been a member of two Pulitzer Prize finalist teams prayed she graduated from loyola university, maryland. And theyre reviewed of unacceptable, they wrote the authors highly readable expose goes well beyond the tabloid level. A capable examination of the seeming intersection of ambition, money, and Higher Education. Library journal calls it a fastpaced account of the massive College Admission scam designed by br
Joining us is mitch kaplan the owner of books and books bookstores in the miami area. We last spoke with mr. Kaplan mh when the pandemic started. That was the day books and book shut down. Thats right. At that point we became a virtual bookshop. The only business we were doing was online and doing our events virtually as well. Give us an update five months later. It has been a roller coaster to be honest. We have had ups and downs we were able through the ppp loans to bring our staff back but unfortunately the stores were so shut down because of the pandemic here in florida. But toward the end we could open around the beginning of june or so i think it was july now that i think about it we began to open. We opened all but one. One we have closed permanently on miami beach. But we are looking forward to finding another space there as well. Whats it like to have customers back in the store . For us and has been fairly smooth. The customers have all been very respectful of wearing masks.
This week, pales to the best moment of american literature, tom wolfe wrote in one of his manifestoes on behalf of literary realism, we need a battalion of brigade to head out into this one with far and predictable of stopping and three claiming it as liberty property. As the trouble of turning yourself into an america is that you immediately expose being trumped by reality, the critics are forever basing him from going over the top, for using cartoon characters returned is the opposite. Mr. Wolfson satire pains into significance paint with a reality that he tries to capture. Charlotte simmons was born and raised in what grand ther virgid give me virginia and at Yale University and the start of his journalistic career at the university newspaper. University newspaper. I dislike american correspondent for the Washington Post he earned the prize for his coverage of the cuban revoluti revolution. His 1962, he moved to the tribune where he interviewed the Staff Writers signed and a leader
We have a remarkable board of directors who work hard at doing this yearround. None of this at all could have been without the good support if everyone here at Miami Dade College and lets give them a huge round of applause. [applause] they are particularly appreciative of the sponsors. Without the sponsors and funding from foundations and governmental, we wouldnt be able to bring you all of this literary extravaganza. And of course our friends. Many of you are friends of the Miami Book Fair and that is a way that you can support the book fare and make sure that it goes on for another 29 years as well. [applause] if you look downstairs at the booth, you are more than welcome to sign up if youd like. I also like to tell you make sure that you pick up the guide on the way out. We have a remarkable program. Tomorrow night in fac fact the t up at night with about 4 00 for those of you that have kids, hes coming with his new series and he will be there at 4 00 followed by a wonderful writer