BTB #131: Dennis Loy Johnson on Discovering Tao Lin

In a Miami Book Fair Preview, Dennis Loy Johnson, author and Melville House Publishing cofounder, remembers how one book blogger met another, leading to Johnson publishing then-23-year-old Tao Lin. On Sunday, November 15, at the Miami Book Fair, Tao Lin and Chris...

BTB #72: Uncovering Race Coverage

Chris Kenneally and “Beyond the Book” returned to the Miami Book Fair for “Uncovering Race Coverage: What We Mean When We Write on Race, Politics and the American Scene.” Kenneally was joined by Keith Woods, Dean of Faculty of the Poynter Institute, along with Brad...

BTB #34: Reporting Iraq Part III

In today’s program we present the final segement of a three part series from the Miami Book Fair International on Reporting Iraq (published last month by Melville House). The panel, moderated by Christopher Kenneally, Director of Author & Creator Relations,...

BTB #33: Reporting Iraq Part II

In today’s program we present the second part of a three part series from the Miami Book Fair International on Reporting Iraq (published earlier this month by Melville House). The panelists include Jane Arraf, a freelance NBC News correspondent, Mike Hoyt, the...

BTB #32: Reporting Iraq

In today’s program we present the first part of a three part series from the Miami Book Fair International on Reporting Iraq (published earlier this month by Melville House). “Some of the most interesting things that war correspondents see and do...

BTB #6: Family Secrets, Family Truths (Miami)

Beyond the Book’s Christopher Kenneally hosts a provocative panel discussion at this year’s 2006 Miami Book Fair International on “Family Secrets, Family Truths: American Immigrant Stories.” Panelists include Michael Patrick MacDonald, author...