Sergio Gutiérrez Negrón is an author, translator, professor, and editor based in Oberlin, Ohio. His most recent books are the novel Los días laborales (Business Days), the academic work México, Interrupted: Labor, Idleness, and the Economic Imaginary of Independence, and the Spanish translation of Yvonne Weekes's Volcán, Memoria de Montserrat. And in 2025, he served as a judge for the National Book Award.

Beneath the Byline: an interview with journalist Max Chesnes

Anne Garland Mahler is an associate professor at the University of Virginia. Her new book is A Wide Net of Solidarity: Antiracism and Anti-imperialism from the Americas to the Globe (Duke University Press, 2025).

An interview with classicist, historian, and author Nadya Williams about her newest book Christians Reading Classics: An Introduction to Greco-Roman Classics from Homer to Boethius (Zondervan, 2025).

An interview with award-winning art critic and journalist Elisa Turner about her new book, Miami’s Art Boom: From Local Vision to International Presence (University Press of Florida, 2025)

We interviewed Scott D. Seligman about his new book, The Great Christmas Boycott of 1906: Antisemitism and the Battle Over Christianity in the Public Schools (Potomac Books, 2025).

Interview with Geoffrey Ward, historian and writer of scripts for Ken Burns. Author of The American Revolution‍ (Knopf, 2025), ‍The Vietnam War: An Intimate History (Knopf, 2017), The Roosevelts: An Intimate History (Knopf, 2014), and others. Script writer of The Civil War, Baseball, The West, Jazz, and more.

Gregory Enns is a fifth-generation Floridian who has been a reporter and editor in Florida and Alabama for decades. He is the founder and owner of Indian River Media Group, which includes Indian River Magazine. He has a new book out with the University Press of Florida: Cow Creek Chronicles: The Rise and Fall of an Early Florida Cattle Ranch.  We interviewed Enns about that book and Florida history.

Jason Vuic’s new book is A Town Without Pity: AIDS, Race, and Resistance in Florida’s Deep South (University Press of Florida, 2025). It comes out 10/21/25, so we chatted with him about the story of Arcadia, FL, in the year 1987, and many other things Florida-related.

Aaron Gwyn is an author of several books, most recently The Cannibal Owl (Belle Point Press, 2025).

Grace Mackey interviews journalist Chris Kuo.

An interview with historian Peter Fritzsche about his new book, 1942: When World War II Engulfed the Globe (Basic Books, 2025)

Interview with Andy Huse, author of From Saloons to Steakhouses: A History of Tampa (University Press of Florida, 2024)

An interview with historian Jeffrey Lesser about his new book, Living and Dying in São Paulo: Immigrants, Health, and the Built Environment in Brazil (Duke University Press, 2025).

Grace Mackey interviews journalist Lee Pitts

An interview with Editorial Assistant Grace Mackey, about a new series she is launching for us, “Beneath the Byline.”

An interview with David Morton, author of Motion Picture Paradise: A History of Florida’s Film and Television Industry (University Press of Florida, 2024)

An interview with Robert Darnton, premier cultural historian and most recently author of The Writer’s Lot (Harvard University Press, 2025). The Writer’s Lot is set to be his final book. [This interview is a repost.]

Interview with Mike Stark, author of Starlings: The Curious Odyssey of a Most Hated Bird (University of Nebraska Press, 2025)

An interview with Stephanie Pridgeon, author of Absorption Narratives: Jewishness, Blackness, and Indigeneity in the Cultural Imaginary of the Americas (University of Toronto Press, 2025).