lehane on fiu

Dennis will be at the Miami Book Fair this weekend promoting Akashic Books' Boston Noir. 

tony gagliano

The FIU Creative Writing family lost one of our own last week with the passing of Tony Gagliano. Tony was a sweet and a fiercely honest writer. His novel Straits of Fortune. The starred Booklist review compared Tony favorably to Carl Hiassen and Randy Wayne White. We're going to miss him.

fiu follies

FIU now has valet parking for those of you driving right from a South Beach night club to a morning class. (thanks to Joe in Cheese)

and the winner is . . .

 FIU MFA Ginny Rorby has one this year's Schneider Family Book Awards in the Teens category for her book Hurt Go Happy.