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Mitchell Kaplan is an American musician, music director, songwriter, arranger and producer. He is best known as the Music Director for Sandra Bernhard and for alternative comedy company Un-cabaret. He has been featured as musical director in performances with Ana Gasteyer and Cady Huffman.
Aug 8, 2019 · The Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan: A Podcast. Mitchell Kaplan has been a bookseller and has owned the independent bookstores Books & Books for over 35 years. Enter the Literary Life where every week you’ll hear candid conversations with Mitchell and his guests, including Dave Cullen, Min Jin Lee, Lisa Lucas, Tayari Jones, Tina Brown, and ...
Sep 29, 2023 · The Author of Go As a River in Conversation with Mitchell Kaplan on The Literary Life
MITCHELL KAPLAN. Producer/Publisher (Books & Books, Miami Book Fair, The Mazur Kaplan Company) Mitchell Kaplan, a native of Miami Beach, opened the first Books & Books in 1982 in Coral Gables, Florida. Now with four South Florida locations, Books & Books hosts over 400 events per year.
Miami native Mitchell Kaplan is the owner/founder of Books & Books, one of the premier independent bookstore groups in the United States, and a respected leader in the book business. Along with Eduardo J. Padrón, president of Miami-Dade College (MDC), he co-founded The Miami Book Fair (MBF), the largest event of its kind in the United States ...
- What’s the secret to Books & Books’ success? The only way one can really be successful in a small business like ours is to maintain a kind of passion and be able to hire passionate booksellers, and I think we’ve been able to do that.
- Are you worried about the future of reading? It would be foolish not to be worried about the future in general. Reading falls into that because we’re in such a period of change.
- What gives you a hunch a book will make a good movie? You have to ask yourself, is there a pathway to getting this made? Do we know directors, writers, a studio?
- What books are being adapted at Mazur Kaplan?
Mitchell Kaplan. Born in Miami, Florida, Mitchell Kaplan is best known for the creation of the Miami Book Fair International, the largest community book festival in the United States and a model for book fairs across the country. Kaplan began his working career as a high school English teacher.
