Jane Leavy: Make Me Commissioner of MLB
JANE LEAVY is the author of the New York Times bestsellers “The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created,” “The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America’s Childhood” and “Sandy Koufax: A Lefty’s Legacy,” and the comic novel “Squeeze Play,” which Entertainment Weekly called “the best novel ever written about baseball.”
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Art Critic Elisa Turner: “Miami’s Art Boom”
ELISA TURNER is an award-winning art critic and journalist based in Miami. In October 2025 her book, “Miami’s Art Boom: From Local Vision to International Presence,” was published by the University Press of Florida. It chronicles the city’s art scene from 1987 to 2007.
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Bob Blumenthal: Grammy Award Winning Jazz Critic
BOB BLUMENTHAL began writing jazz criticism in 1969 while attending Harvard College. He was a contributing editor of the Boston Phoenix (1969-1989) and a contributor to The Boston Globe (1990-2002), and has also appeared in such publications as the Atlantic Monthly, Rolling Stone, the Village Voice, Down Beat, JazzTimes and Jazziz. He won two Grammy awards for best album notes for collections by John Coltrane and Miles Davis.
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Julie K. Brown: In Pursuit of Justice
JULIE K. BROWN is an investigative journalist with the “Miami Herald,” best known for pursuing the sex trafficking story surrounding Jeffrey Epstein. She is the recipient of several awards including two George Polk Awards for Justice Reporting. Brown’s book, “Perversion of Justice,” based on her reporting on the Epstein case, was published by William Morrow and Company. The book served as the foundation for a limited series on HBO.
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David Dunlap: Documenting Buildings and Lives
DAVID W. DUNLAP is a journalist who worked as a reporter for the New York Times for 40+ years. He wrote a regular column, “Building Blocks,” that looked at the New York metropolitan area through its architecture, infrastructure, spaces, and places. Dunlap has also been documenting the history of Provincetown, Massachusetts, through its architecture, on the website “Building Provincetown,” and in his book on this topic, “Building Provincetown,” (Provincetown Arts Press — 2015, 2021, 2024).
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