
GCL Book Club
The first and third Wednesdays of the month at 2:00 pm & 7:00 pm
For intelligent, candid conversations with authors of all genres, tune in to the Gulf Coast Life Book Club with Cary Barbor.
Listen in on the first Wednesdays of the month at 2:00 pm & 7:00 pm
Latest Episodes
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On GCL Book Club, we hear from Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Andrea Elliott. For eight years, she wrote about a young girl named Dasani, who was growing up poor in New York City. What resulted is the sweeping epic of one family’s story, by turns heartbreaking and inspirational. The book is a riveting must-read.
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Antoine Wilson’s latest novel, Mouth to Mouth, is a taut, compelling read that is already on many best-of lists for this year. Two old college friends meet up in an airport and one proceeds to spin out the tale of his long and complicated life.
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Mona Awad discusses her brilliant novel ALL'S WELL, about pain, power, and Shakespeare. This conversation took place at the Miami Book Fair.
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Essayist Laurie Easter writes about grief and loss as well as love and redemption.
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On this episode of the Book Club, we hear from Julie K. Brown, the award-winning investigative journalist from The Miami Herald.
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The author of the memoir Becoming Duchess Goldblatt tells us how she created the beloved character. A re-air of the very first GCL Book Club!
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This week, we listen back to one of our favorite GCL Book Club conversations of the year. Poet and journalist Clint Smith’s How the Word is Passed, A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America, is essential reading.
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This novel, a National Book Award finalist, follows an interpreter at the International Criminal Court who must speak for a leader accused of horrific genocidal crimes.
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Lacy Crawford's memoir Notes on a Silencing outlines her sexual assault as a high school student, and the school's cover-up.
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This time on Gulf Coast Life Book Club, we hear about a retelling of The Great Gatsby.