Johnny Diaz
Johnny Diaz is a features reporter at the South Florida Sun Sentinel. Prior to that, he was a media reporter for The Boston Globe's Business section, where he covered TV news, radio, print and advertising. Johnny was also a features writer for The Globe's Living/Arts section for three years....
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Johnny Diaz is a features reporter at the South Florida Sun Sentinel. Prior to that, he was a media reporter for The Boston Globe's Business section, where he covered TV news, radio, print and advertising. Johnny was also a features writer for The Globe's Living/Arts section for three years. Before that he was a general assignment Metro reporter for his hometown newspaper, The Miami Herald. As a reporter there, he shared in the 2000 Pulitzer award coverage of the federal seizure of Elian Gonzalez and the chaos that erupted in Miami afterwards. Johnny is the author of Boston Boys Club, Miami Manhunt, Beantown Cubans and Take the Lead. The Spanish version of Take the Lead is called "Tomar La Iniciativa." Johnny's fifth novel, "Looking for Providence," is set in Rhode Island. That book will be released May 2014.Readers can visit his website: www.beantowncuban.com
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he is cuban-american I GOT THAT ALREADY ! damn it was like a broken record :(
Take the Lead provides a snapshot into the life of Gabriel, a journalism professor at Boston University. The story, told in first person present, follows Gabriel through several months of his life, as he struggles with aging, family illness, romance, and life in general.It should be noted that, whil...
Take the Lead is a male version, oops, scratch that, a gay version of a chick lit book. It's a light, easy breazy story, that covers everything from family, friendship, search for love, and the little tiny details in everyday life of the main character, popular college professor, Gabriel Galan.Gabr...
Although this book had a little charm to it, the author did not deliver well. Unrealistic dialogue that was too descriptive and "on the nose," repetitive passages, and an overuse of character tics made the story too plastic. An example of the dialogue I can turn to from the end of the book is when...
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