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Erich Schwartzel on Red Carpet: Hollywood, China, and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy: Fiction

Livestream + In Person

This program is being livestreamed from MDC’s Wolfson Campus. For more information about this in-person program, please visit MiamiBookFair.com. In Red Carpet: Hollywood, China, and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy, Erich Schwartzel offers an eye-opening and deeply reported narrative that explores the surprising role of the movie business in the high-stakes contest between the U.S. and China. The result […]

National Book Foundation Presents: The 2022 National Book Awards

Livestream + In Person

This program is being livestreamed from MDC’s Wolfson Campus. For more information about this in-person program, please visit MiamiBookFair.com. The National Book Foundation presents the 2022 National Book Award longlisters, finalists, and winners, in an annual super-sized showcase of readings and conversation, moderated by Ruth Dickey, executive director of the National Book Foundation. Featuring Fatimah Asghar, Derrick Barnes, Isaac Blum, […]

Michael Fanone With Tom Hudson: A Conversation

Livestream + In Person

This program is being livestreamed from MDC’s Wolfson Campus. For more information about this in-person program, please visit MiamiBookFair.com. In Hold the Line: The Insurrection and One Cop’s Battle for America’s Soul, former Metropolitan Police Department officer and current CNN analyst Michael Fanone tells the story of the day insurrectionists stormed the Capitol – a day he nearly lost his […]

Cultura abierta vs. cancelación. Panel de la Cátedra Vargas Llosa.

Livestream + In Person

Esta presentación en persona también será transmitida en MiamiBookFair.com. ¿Entramos en una nueva era puritana? ¿Existe un nuevo activismo liberticida? Hay temor a expresarse, en la universidad y en la empresa, y a cómo será interpretada una canción, una obra literaria o un artículo de opinión. Las libertades de expresión y creación parecen en recesión […]

Homenaje a José Saramago

On Demand

Para celebrar el centenario del escritor portugués José Saramago, la Feria del Libro de Miami organiza un homenaje al Premio Nobel de Literatura 1988 y autor de obras tan importantes como Memorial del convento, Todos los nombres y El hombre duplicado, al que han sido invitadas Pilar del Río, esposa y traductora de buena parte […]

Una tarde con Guillermo Schavelzon

On Demand

Guillermo “Willie” Schavelzon, uno de los agentes literarios más importantes del mundo, quien fundó en 1998 la agencia literaria Schavelzon Graham con sede en Barcelona, y que representa a casi cien autores, presenta El enigma del oficio, libro en el que hace un recorrido por su larga carrera. Conversa con él la escritora, periodista y […]

Phil Klay, Elliot Ackerman & Ben Kesling: A Conversation

On Demand

Phil Klay’s Uncertain Ground: Citizenship in an Age of Endless, Invisible War notes that relatively few Americans have had to do any real grappling with the endless, invisible conflicts of the post-9/11 world; in fact, increasingly few people are even aware they are still going on. But while American military actions abroad may be out […]

“Disability Activism”: Ben Mattlin, Akemi Nishida & Heidi Johnson-Wright

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In Disability Pride, Dispatches From a Post-ADA World, disabled journalist Ben Mattlin explores how disability attitudes, activism, and representation have evolved since the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Written without anger or pity, it’s a revealing account of an often misunderstood movement and identity, and an inclusive reexamination of society’s treatment of those it deems […]

Tom Mustill, Priyanka Kumar & Sy Montgomery: A Conversation

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After surviving a humpback whale crashing into his kayak, Tom Mustill turned to his experience as a naturalist and wildlife filmmaker to investigate human-whale interactions around the world. And in How to Speak Whale: A Voyage into the Future of Animal Communication, he examines how artificial intelligence – originally designed to translate human languages – […]

Narradoras industria argentina

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Tres autoras argentinas que vienen pisando fuerte en el mapa literario: Mariana Sández, narradora, periodista y ensayista, presenta Una casa llena de gente, relato que se sumerge en los espacios privados y comunes de un edificio y sus habitantes para reconstruir una memoria personal y colectiva. Periodista y escritora, Dolores Gil llega con Parte de […]

Jack Parlett on Fire Island: A Century in the Life of an American Paradise: Nonfiction

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In Fire Island: A Century in the Life of an American Paradise, poet and scholar Jack Parlett tells the story of this iconic destination – its history, meaning, and cultural significance – through the lens of the artists and creators who sought refuge there. Figures as divergent as Walt Whitman, Oscar Wilde, James Baldwin, Patricia […]