Writers & Lovers is Lily King’s fifth book, a portrait of a writer as a young woman captured at the end of one phase of life and the beginning of another, when the conflicting demands of art and real life push her to the brink. At 31, Casey is still determined to live a creative […]
Event starts Monday, November 16 at 8 p.m. Book purchase required for admittance to this program; click here to purchase. Comprising 10 short stories, Nicole Krauss’ To Be A Man explores what it means to be a man and to be a woman in a relationship and beyond, a collection of tales deemed “spectacular” by […]
Event starts Monday, November 16 at 5 p.m. Book purchase required for admittance to this program; click here to purchase. As it follows two brothers living by their wits in early 20th-century America, Jess Walter’s The Cold Millions – named a most anticipated book by the New York Times Book Review, Esquire, and the Philadelphia […]
In David Hopen’s The Orchard, Orthodox Jewish high school student Aryeh moves with his family from Brooklyn’s Borough Park to the Miami suburbs and is plunged into a secularized world where everything he believes he knows of himself is threatened. Irresistibly drawn to his new friends, the lives they lead, and the way they think, […]
In Max Gross' The Lost Shtetl, a town that history missed – spared by the Holocaust and the Cold War, untouched by electricity, the internet, and indoor plumbing – is abruptly pulled into the 21st century, with seriocomic results. Gross talks about his novel with Moriel Rothman-Zecher, author of the heartbreaking coming-of-age tale, Sadness Is […]
Novelist Maaza Mengiste’s anthology Addis Ababa Noir offers 14 dark stories of complicated characters and bad behavior by some of Ethiopia's most talented writers, both living in the country and abroad. Salar Abdoh's Out of Mesopotamia is an unprecedented glimpse into “endless war” from a Middle Eastern perspective, a meditation that is moving, humane, darkly […]
Deemed by the Daily Mail to be a “showcase his lucid prose and freewheeling imagination,” Prayer for the Living is a collection of 23 stories by Booker Prize-winning Nigerian writer Ben Okri that take us from London to Byzantium to a printer's shop in Spain, deftly blurring the lines between parallel realities while rendering darkness […]
In Garth Stein and Matthew Southworth's The Cloven, a genetically modified human searches to belong but is confined to categorization based on his appearance. In Chris Gooch's Under-Earth, a makeshift underworld prison sets the tone for two parallel stories to converge, both confined by loneliness. Watch these incredible authors and illustrators as they talk about […]
To see the LIVE Q&A replay, click the “Next Up” arrow on the player beside the volume icon. In Leigh Bardugo’s Ninth House, Galaxy “Alex” Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale's freshman class. The sole survivor of a horrific and unsolved multiple homicide, Alex is offered a second chance: to attend one of […]
Join 2019 MBF/de Groot Prize finalists Kristen Simental and Holly Takashima as they muse over their respective winning entries. Emerging Latinx author Simental’s Why, Arizona is a story about a girl, an RV, a tortured ex, a small town on the edge of nowhere, and the end of the world. Takashima’s The Meaning of Words […]
The de Groot Foundation focuses on innovation, education and culture, with particular interest in the visual and literary arts. In 2016, the Foundation partnered with Miami Book Fair to launch the Miami Book Fair/de Groot Prize, which is awarded annually to an author for an unpublished novella. Clydette and Charles de Groot, along with Miami […]
Ellen Michaeson, 2019 winner of the MBF/de Groot Prize for the Novella, has crafted a moving story about vulnerability and friendship in The Care of Strangers. Described by Publishers Weekly as an “affecting glimpse into the evolution of friendship between women facing difficult odds," Michaelson’s protagonists learn that letting yourself care for another person can […]