Completely Booked - Official Podcast of the Jacksonville Public Library

Mar 03 2025 100 ep. 52 mins 64
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Listen to stories from local Jacksonville residents, learn something new, and get updates about events happening at the Jacksonville Public Library.

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Lit Chat Interview with Civil Rights Activist & Author Rodney Hurst, Sr.

Mar 03 2025 59 mins  
Black and Brilliant Local Author As the sixteen-year-old President of the Jacksonville Youth Council NAACP, he was one of the leaders of the 1960 sit-in demonstrations that culminated in the infamous and violent Ax Handle Saturday. Hurst's first book, the award-winning It Was Never About a Hot Dog and a Coke®!, tells that story. Hurst’s fourth book, Black and Brilliant (written

Lit Chat Interview with Author Sheila Athens

Feb 13 2025 56 mins  
A First Coast Romance Sheila Athens writes smart contemporary fiction set where the South meets the Sunshine state. Her stories are about women seeking to find the peace we all deserve. Readers are drawn to her work because they believe that everyday heroes can make a difference in our world. Featured Book: Mae Van Dorn's Perfect Storm All thirty-four-year-old Mae Van Dorn wants is

Lit Chat Interview with Author and Filmmaker Morgan Jerkins

Feb 05 2025 56 mins  
A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots New York Times bestselling and National Magazine Award-winning author Morgan Jerkins will be at the Main Library this October to discuss Wandering in Strange Lands, the powerful story of her journey to understand her northern and southern roots, the Great Migration, and the displacement of black people across America. She will be

Lit Chat Interview with Mexican Gothic Author Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Dec 05 2024 58 mins  
Mexican Gothic Author Comes to Jacksonville Silvia Moreno-Garcia, the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic, is coming to Jacksonville for Hispanic Heritage Month. Her latest novel is a historical drama set in Hollywood, following three different point of view characters all tied to the production of a movie inspired by the Biblical story of Salome. FEATURED BOOK: The

Lit Chat Interview with Writer & Musician Daryl Gussin

Nov 15 2024 48 mins  
Zinester Talks Fanzines, Community Daryl Gussin is a writer and musician who has been awkwardly standing around at punk shows for the last twenty-something years. Thankfully at some point in his late teens, he decided to become a little more productive and has been working on zines, setting up shows, and playing in bands consecutively since then. He's been integrally involved in Ra

Lit Chat Interview with Top Chef Personality & Author Kenny Gilbert

Oct 15 2024 61 mins  
Chef Kenny Offers New Takes on Southern Cuisine Chef Kenny Gilbert is best known for his appearance on “Top Chef” Season seven, where he displayed a big personality and instantly became one of the most likable "cheftestants" to date. He is also the author of the new cookbook, Southern Cooking, Global Flavors (2023), which includes tips and techniques for making international va

Lit Chat Interview with "Prairie Man" Author Dean Butler

Sep 12 2024 60 mins  
Dean Butler is an actor, producer, and director best known for his role as Almanzo Wilder (the man Laura Ingalls married) in Little House on the Prairie, based on the beloved Little House book series written by Laura Ingalls Wilder. He appeared in the final four seasons of the show, the spin-off show Little House: A New Beginning, and the three post-series TV movies. He was also a

Lit Chat with Award-Winning Graphic Novelist Nate Powell

Aug 23 2024 61 mins  
Nate Powell began self-publishing as an Arkansas teenager in 1992. Now, he is a National Book Award-winning cartoonist best known for his work on the ground-breaking graphic novel memoir series, March, with civil rights icon John Lewis. An inside story of the Civil Rights Movement told through the eyes of one of its most iconic figures, it was a #1 New York Times and Washington Pos

Lit Chat Author Interview with Debut Novelist Alejandro Nodarse

Aug 02 2024 55 mins  
Debut Florida Author Brings the Magic City to Jacksonville "I am, first and foremost, a Miamian. No physical location has done more to shape my personal and artistic sensibilities than the Magic City," Alejandro Nodarse said in a recent interview. "Miami is, unquestionably, very different from its neighboring Floridan cities, and I am a product of that high energy, heavy neon, fier

Lit Chat Interview with Bestselling Environmental Writer Jeff Goodell

Jul 19 2024 60 mins  
You May Never See a Hot Summer Day the Same Way Again... Jeff Goodell is a New York Times bestselling author of seven books, including The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World, which was picked as a New York Times Critics' Top Book of 2017, as well as one of Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2017. Goodell's previous