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The History of the Robert E. Lee Bust in Downtown Fort Myers

We’re talking with author and historian, Tom Hall, to take a deep dive into the history of the Robert E. Lee bust that’s been on a pedestal in downtown Fort Myers since 1966.

GCL Book Club: Clare Beams, The Garden

Novelist Clare Beams, author of THE GARDEN, joins us. In 1948, women who have suffered multiple miscarriages gather at a private hospital to be treated by the husband-and-wife team of doctors there. Then things start to go wrong.

Internationally Known Pan-Africanist Visits FGCU

P.L.O. Lumumba is an internationally recognized lawyer, human rights activist, pan-Africanist and public speaker who’s message focuses on African solutions to African problems. He's in the United States to visit African Embassies in Washington D.C. and other states, and the United Nations headquarters in New York City, but he began his trip with a stop at Florida Gulf Coast University arranged by the African Student Association, where he met with students and faculty, and gave a public presentation on “Education and Universal Empowerment.”We spoke with professor Lumumba about his life's work promoting pan-Africanism, the critical importance of education, and the role China is playing in Africa and how that could shape its future.

Gabriel García Márquez attends a Latin American film festival in Havana, on Dec. 5, 2006. A previously unpublished novel by the late Colombian author is due out next year.

An unpublished novel by Gabriel García Márquez is set for release next year

Arriving 10 years after the author's death, the roughly 150-page novel will contain five sections centered around a character named Ana Magdalena Bach.

The Intricate, Cinematic World of 'Hugo Cabret'

In The Invention of Hugo Cabret, author and illustrator Brian Selznick uses a striking combination of text and drawings to tell the story of Hugo, an orphan in Paris, and a reclusive genius from the early days of silent film.