“Black leather jacket.”   Chatter rolls with Claude, David, Torie, and icon James Grady. David did indeed cry at his son’s graduation, and Torie lived Book Fair-palooza in Gaithersburg and Oyster Bay.  Miami literary legend Mitchell Kaplan of Books & Books joined in to nominate Chantel Acevedo for “The Pitch.”   Her new book “Cages” is out in June.  Crossing Cuba, London, and Miami, it reveals themes of love, exile, and identity.  Jim shares back stories about Robert Redford and the incentive to write his latest, “Shadows on Sidewalks.”  As Bob Dylan said, “ sex and politics and murder is the way to go if you want to get people’s attention.”  Grady will get lots of attention with “Shadows,” yet another reason The Washington Post compared his writing to George Orwell and Bob Dylan.