Bob Edwards on My Life in Radio and Norma Watkins on Taking the Mississippi Cure
Saturday, Nov. 19, 3:30 p.m., Batten (Building 2, 1st Floor, Room 2106)
Author(s) and Guest(s)
Bob Edwards
In A Voice in the Box: My Life in Radio (University of Kentucky Press, $21,95), Bob Edwards recounts his career as one of the most important figures in modern broadcasting. For thirty years, Edwards was the voice of National Public Radio’s daily newsmagazine programs, co-hosting All Things Considered before launching Morning Edition in 1979. His sharp observations about the people he interviewed and covered, and the colleagues with whom he worked, offer a window on forty years of American news and the evolution of public journalism.
Norma Watkins
Norma Watkins's memoir, The Last Resort: Taking the Mississippi Cure (University Press of Mississippi, $28.00), recounts being raised at a popular Mississippi spa for proper white people, run by her aunt. Life at the rambling hotel seems like paradise. Yet young Norma wonders at a caste system that has colored people cooking every meal while forbidding them from sitting with whites to eat. Later, a fine house, wonderful children, and a successful husband do not compensate for the shock of Mississippi's brutal response to change. When a civil rights lawyer offers love and escape, does a good southern lady dare leave her home state and closed society behind?
Schedule
Location
Miami Book Fair International * Miami Dade College
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, FL 33132
Batten (Building 2, 1st Floor, Room 2106)
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