This event is being livestreamed from MDC's Wolfson Campus. For tickets to this in-person event, please visit: MiamiBookFair.com. Miami Book Fair 2021 will kick off with New York Times bestselling author Amor Towles, appearing live and in person in a very special Evenings With presentation. In his latest title, The Lincoln Highway: A Novel, Towles introduces 18-year-old Emmett Watson – […]
Miami Book Fair is proud to partner with the National Book Foundation to present the 15th annual 5 Under 35 Ceremony to honor five fiction writers under the age of 35: K-Ming Chang (Bestiary), Naima Coster (Halsey Street), Raven Leilani (Luster), Fatima Farheen Mirza (A Place for Us), and C Pam Zhang (How Much of […]
Live Q&A! Starts @ 3:30 p.m. EST. In Chuck Palahniuk 's novel The Invention of Sound, a father searching for his missing daughter is given hope when a major clue is discovered nearly two decades later. But learning the truth about what happened to her could shatter the seemingly perfect image Hollywood is desperate to […]
Live Q&A! Starts @ 2:00 p.m. EST. Join Sterling Watson, The Committee; Nelson George, The Darkest Hearts; Les Standiford, Miami Noir: The Classics; and Achy Obejas, author of Ruins and the editor of the well-received anthology Havana Noir; as they talk crime writing and more with Akashic Books publisher Johnny Temple.
Based on actual historical events and set against the backdrop of political, cultural, and class turmoil, Sterling Watson's The Committee is, finally, about the need to stand firm against the encroachments upon our freedom by men who believe they are doing God's work. Watson is speaking with author and screenwriter Dennis Lehane, whose work includes […]
Simon Han’s Nights When Nothing Happened tells the story of the Chengs, a Chinese family living in Texas, and the challenges and costs of pursuing the American Dream. A gripping tale immersed in the crosscurrents that have reshaped our landscape, Han’s debut – called an exploration of “childhood trauma and the impact words and silence can have on […]
Grifters, cheats, and killers. Welcome to Florida! Tampa Bay Times editor and writer Colette Bancroft has collected 15 new tales of murder, fraud, and debauchery in Tampa Bay Noir, a welcome installment in the beloved locale-specific Noir series. Discussing the Gulf Coast’s seamier side with her are contributing best-selling author Michael Connelly, host of the […]
Described by the New York Times as “visceral and haunting,” Charlotte McConaghy's Migrations is a novel set on the brink of catastrophe, as a young woman chases the world’s last flock of Arctic terns in their final migration, their course dovetailing with her own quest for redemption. She’s speaking with Literary Hub senior editor Corinne […]
Award-winning author Mary Gordon’s Payback is a searing story of sexual assault, decades before #MeToo, and how the response to a cry for help and blaming the victim changed two lives forever. Joining her is Mary Beth Keane, author of New York Times bestseller Ask Again, Yes, a story about another type of tragedy, one […]
A trio deft in navigating the macabre bring us to strange lands and times, with tales that shock, frighten, and stir the soul. Sisters in a legendary sunken Celtic palace are pulled apart after the death of their mother the Queen in MT Anderson’s The Daughters of Ys. A young underground radio host learns a […]
Book purchase required for admittance to this program; click here to purchase. American Book Award winner Yaa Gyasi's novel Transcendent Kingdom – praised by author Ann Patchett as possessing “splendor and heart and insight and brilliance” – is a moving portrait of a family of Ghanaian immigrants ravaged by depression, addiction and grief, and a […]
“Money. Money. Money. Money.” And so begins People Die in Sunshine, Gloria Nagy's fast-paced tale of greed, glamour, envy, and avarice in the aftermath of a vicious double homicide. Nagy’s cast of characters – wildly diverse in ethnicity, wealth, morality, and status – are by turn warm, entertaining, engaging, and comical, and as the murder […]