On the first Wednesday of every month from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. author Tom  Austin will be in residence at the North Shore Branch Library conducting oral history recording sessions with anyone who wishes to be interviewed about South Beach cultural life. Austin received a South Florida Knight Arts Challenge grant for South Beach Century: How South Beach and the Arts Built Modern Miami(www.knightarts.org). South Beach Century celebrates the creative spirit of South Beach and Miami itself, incorporating design, music, dance, fashion, film, television, literature, culinary history, nightlife and visual art.