La Feria del Libro de Miami del Miami Dade College, el Consulado de la República Argentina en Miami y la Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española invitan al homenaje al escritor checo Franz Kafka, en el año del centenario de su fallecimiento. ______________ Gerardo Piña Rosales: De origen español, profesor retirado de City University of […]

Latino Poetry: The Library of America Anthology edited by poet and critic RIGOBERTO GONZÁLEZ gathers more than 180 poets in Spanish and English spanning from the 17th century to the present. These poems bear witness to the beauty and power of this vibrant and expanding tradition: its profound engagement with pasts both mythical and historical, […]

KEREN BLANKFELD’s Lovers in Auschwitz: A True Story is a remarkable saga about Zippi Spitzer and David Wisnia, who fell in love in Auschwitz, were separated upon liberation, led extraordinary lives apart following the war, and then found each other more than 70 years later. Inspired by historical events, LAUREN GRODSTEIN’s We Must Not Think […]

For many, Jesus has become a precious relic, revered yet lacking the immediacy of authentic spiritual force. In The Mystic Jesus: The Mind of Love (The Marianne Williamson Series), MARIANNE WILLIAMSON writes of a Jesus who transcends glib imagery and religious dogma. This is not just a historical figure but an ever-present teacher who is, […]

From the forefront of AI research, JOY BUOLAMWINI’s Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines is the story of how she uncovered “the coded gaze” – evidence of encoded discrimination and exclusion in tech products – and galvanized the movement to prevent AI harms by founding the Algorithmic […]

FRANCINE PROSE’s political coming-of-age tale 1974: A Personal History is framed around her relationship with activist Tony Russo – indicted and tried for working with Daniel Ellsberg to leak the Pentagon papers – and the disturbing and dramatic end of that relationship. Consent: A Memoir explores JILL CIMENT’s decadeslong marriage to a 47-year-old married man […]

For her podcast Family Secrets, author DANI SHAPIRO interviews actor, director, producer, and writer GRIFFIN DUNNE about his dazzling new book, The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir – an exploration of what it means to be from a family of storytellers, justice-seekers, and secret-keepers in Hollywood. The fame at this illustrious family’s core has […]

In I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine, neuroscientist and composer DANIEL J. LEVITIN explores the deep connections between music and healing. He presents numerous studies on music and the brain, demonstrating how the former can contribute to the treatment of a host of ailments, from neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s and […]

SHALOM AUSLANDER was raised in a dysfunctional family in the Orthodox Jewish community of Monsey, New York: the son of an alcoholic father, guilt-wielding mother, and a violent, overbearing God. But he began to suspect that what plagued him was something worse: a story called “Feh.” Feh: A Memoir is his midlife journey to rewrite […]

In LAURA VAN DEN BERG’s State of Paradise: A Novel, a ghostwriter for a famous thriller author is living in her mother’s small-town Florida home, tracking ominous and eerie changes. Contending with family secrets, spotty memories of her troubled youth, a burgeoning cult in the living room, and her suddenly missing sister, she begins to […]

MAX BOOT brings America’s 40th president to three-dimensional life in Reagan: His Life and Legend. Drawing on more than 100 new interviews and thousands of newly available documents – and acknowledging Ronald Reagan’s inscrutability and profound contradictions – this is an epic story of the Depression-era poor boy, former movie star, and mesmerizing politician who […]

I Will Do Better: A Father’s Memoir of Heartbreak, Parenting, and Love is CHARLES BOCK’s frank, tender memoir of parenting his young daughter while dealing with immense grief in the wake of his wife’s untimely death. In Bird Milk & Mosquito Bones: A Memoir, PRIYANKA MATTOO chronicles her search for home across 40 years and […]

JOSEPH KANON’s Shanghai: A Novel chronicles one man’s escape to Shanghai during a time when European Jews were desperate to emigrate after the violence of Kristallnacht. Daniel arrives penniless in the tumultuous, nearly lawless city and becomes trapped in Shanghai’s maze of politics and crime, trying to stay one step ahead of murder while outrunning […]

BEN MEZRICH's Breaking Twitter: Elon Musk and the Most Controversial Corporate Takeover in History examines the darkly comic battle between one of the most intriguing, polarizing, influential men of our time and the company that represents our culture’s dearest hope for a shared global conversation. BEN SMITH’s Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar […]

Golden Years: How Americans Invented and Reinvented Old Age is a history of the senior experience in modern America, revealing how security exists only for some. Historian JAMES CHAPPEL shows how old age first emerged as a distinct stage of life and then evolved, urging us to look to the past to better understand old […]

Former U.S. Poet Laureate ROBERT PINSKY reads from his latest book and discusses the role of poetry in the community. In Proverbs of Limbo, he mines and maps limbal regions both demographic and personal – clashing ways of understanding, personal history and world history, health and illness, freedom and compulsion, intimacy and community, personality and […]

Dynamic duo DAVE BARRY and RIDLEY PEARSON reunite to spill the tea on their latest projects – including the theatrical adaptation of their iconic Peter Pan prequel series, Peter and the Starcatchers; Barry’s hilarious caper Swamp Story: A Novel (with more twists and turns through the Everglades than a snake slithering away from a gator); and […]

In The Road to Wisdom: On Truth, Science, Faith, and Trust, FRANCIS S. COLLINS draws on his work from the Human Genome Project and National Institutes of Health, providing a moral, philosophical, and scientific framework to address the problems of our time – distrust of public health, partisanship, racism, response to climate change, and threats to our democracy. ERIC […]

Join us to celebrate 75 years of the National Book Awards and be a part of Team Book history! For more than a decade, the Miami Book Fair and National Book Foundation have joined together to present the biggest in-person showcase of National Book Award honorees anywhere in the country. 2024 honored authors across all […]

Profiles in Mental Health Courage follows the journeys of a diverse group of Americans who have struggled with mental health. PATRICK J. KENNEDY and STEPHEN FRIED share compelling stories about the resilience of those living with mental illness and addiction – people of all ages, backgrounds, and futures; some recovering, some relapsing, some barely holding […]

In Women, Money, Power: The Rise and Fall of Economic Equality, JOSIE COX tells the compelling story of women’s fight for financial freedom, and the social and political hurdles that have kept them from equal access to money and the power that comes with it. In Remember, You Are a Wiley, MAYA WILEY shares a […]

R.O. KWON’s Exhibit: A Novel is the story of two women – one a brilliant young photographer, one a world-class ballerina mysteriously on hiatus – drawn to each other by their intense artistic drives. After one exposes the lifelong secret of an old family curse, the women become more entangled, and begin to explore hidden […]

DANIELA RUS’ The Mind’s Mirror: Risk and Reward in the Age of AI, co-written with Gregory Mone, is an introduction to the true potential of AI and a lively exploration of the underlying technology and its limitations and possibilities. In Mindless: The Human Condition in the Machine Age, ROBERT SKIDELSKY explores our relationship with machines, […]

Author and award-winning journalist FRANK BRUNI’s The Age of Grievance examines how resentments over injustice – perceived or real – has come to define today’s culture and politics. At a time when more and more Americans are convinced they’re losing because someone else is winning, and people are taking their grievances to new extremes, Bruni […]

With Also a Poet: Frank O’Hara, My Father, and Me, ADA CALHOUN sets out to complete an unfinished biography started 40 years earlier by her father, celebrated art critic Peter Schjeldahl. Grief Is for People is SLOANE CROSLEY’s moving memoir and a portrait of friendship that explores multiple kinds of loss after the death of […]

On October 7, 2023, Jews in Israel were attacked in the largest pogrom since the Holocaust. On Being Jewish Now: Reflections from Authors and Advocates – an intimate collection of smart, meaningful, funny, emotional, and inspiring essays, edited by ZIBBY OWENS – gives voice to 75 contributors who shared their thoughts on what it means […]

The ROCK BOTTOM REMAINDERS, an endearingly ragtag cover band established in 1992 and mostly made up of high-profile published authors, performed at Miami Book Fair more than a dozen times over the years. And they’re reuniting right here this year, bringing together a lineup not seen together on stage for more than a decade! Meet […]

What happened to young Elphaba, once a relatable young girl, before her witchy powers took hold in Wicked? Almost 30 years after the publication of the original novel – setting the stage for the international phenomenon Wicked: The Musical – GREGORY MAGUIRE reveals the story of the prickly young Wicked Witch of the West-to-be in […]

DAVID GREENBERG’s John Lewis: A Life captures the legacy of the civil rights icon through long-lost footage, never-before-used FBI documents, and interviews with hundreds of people who knew him, including Lewis himself. In LEONARD PITTS JR.’s 54 Miles: A Novel, a family confronts painful memories, past trauma, and racial injustice during a few pivotal weeks […]

Former U.S. Poet Laureate BILLY COLLINS reads from his latest book and discusses the role of poetry in the community. In Water, Water, he combines his vigilant attention and respect for the peripheral to create moments of delight and capture the beauties and ironies of everyday experience in 60 new poems. Moderated by ROBERT CASPER, […]

In Welcome to Pawnee: Stories of Friendship, Waffles, and Parks and Recreation, Emmy Award-winning actor JIM O’HEIR offers a heartfelt behind-the-scenes look at one of America’s most beloved sitcoms – including never-before-told stories and dozens of unseen photos. Joining him in conversation is comedy writer ALAN ZWEIBEL, author of Laugh Lines: My Life Helping Funny People Be Funnier.   SPONSORED BY   […]

KARA SWISHER’s Burn Book: A Tech Love Story – part memoir, part history – tells the inside story of Silicon Valley and tech’s most powerful players, including Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Sheryl Sandberg, Bob Iger, and Mark Zuckerberg. Together and at odds, they ruled over an explosion of world-changing innovation that […]

Desperately Seeking Something: A Memoir About Movies, Mothers, and Material Girls is SUSAN SEIDELMAN’s first-person story of her trailblazing four-decade career in film, which began when few women were directing movies. From her Twiggy-obsessed girlhood through the women’s liberation movement of the early 1970s, the Madonna-mania of the ’80s, and beyond, Seidelman offers a keen […]

In ANN HOOD’s The Stolen Child: A Novel, a former WWI soldier enlists a college dropout to help him solve a decades-old mystery, leading both to reckon with regret, betrayal, and the lives they left behind. In ROXANA ROBINSON’s Leaving: A Novel, college lovers Sarah and Warren reconnect after a chance meeting and embark on […]

Tracing 50-plus years in one New York neighborhood, JONATHAN LETHEM’s Brooklyn Crime Novel begins on the streets of 1970s New York, where the promise of violence is everywhere. GEORGE PELECANOS’ Buster: A Dog is one resilient canine’s story, as told by the dog himself. Along the way, as he befriends other dogs and witnesses the […]

MARIE ARANA’s LatinoLand: A Portrait of America’s Largest and Least Understood Minority – a sweeping yet personal overview of the Latino population in America – celebrates Latino resilience and character and shows why we must understand the largest and fastest-growing minority in America. PAOLA RAMOS’ Defectors: The Rise of the Latino Far Right and What […]

V (FORMERLY EVE ENSLER)’s Reckoning recounts her creative journey and process across 40 years, representing the ideas that have become global movements and the methods through which she survived abuse and self-hatred. Seamlessly moving from the internal to the external and the personal to the political, Reckoning is a moving and inspiring work of prose, […]

How can you navigate life as the “normal” child of an extraordinary creative? In Earth to Moon: A Memoir, MOON UNIT ZAPPA writes about the wonders and challenges of growing up the daughter of Frank Zappa. But while every family faces unique problems related to their particular makeup, the journey to growing into yourself with […]

Presentación del libro Agua sagrada, de RUBÍ ARANA en su versión bilingüe, con el cual se dará un homenaje póstumo a su vida y obra. Con la participación de escritores cercanos a la poeta nicaragüense que compartirán sus poemas y anécdotas más preciadas, entre ellos LIDIA CARABALLO, BEATRIZ MENDOZA CORTISSOZ, ALEJANDRA FERRAZZA, KELLY MARTINEZ GRANDALL, […]

Fifty years ago, the Carnation Revolution brought profound social and artistic transformations to Portugal. These changes were vividly reflected in literature, giving rise to a celebrated new generation of post-revolution writers. As we commemorate 50 years of creative freedom in Portuguese literature, we’ll explore the impact of these historical milestones on the art of writing. […]

El periodista y escritor mexicano JORGE RAMOS presenta Así veo las cosas: Lo que nunca te conté, obra donde reúne sus textos más personales y literarios escritos a lo largo de cuatro décadas de carrera. En conversación con la periodista LUZ MARÍA DORIA. Compra Así veo las cosas: Lo que nunca te conté – Ramos

La Feria presenta una obra que es una celebración, un homenaje, un tributo a uno de los mejores futbolistas de todos los tiempos. Esta compilación de ensayos plantea un recorrido en el que destacadas figuras internacionales transitan aventuras, personajes y momentos que van perfilando la figura de Lionel Messi. Participan: PABLO BRESCIA, RUBÉN COSTA, ANA […]

El director y guionista cubano PAVEL GIROUD llega con Habana nostra, una novela documental con personajes reales que resume un episodio apasionante de la historia del crimen organizado. Una obra que huele a pólvora, a salitre, a ron y a salsa amatriciana. Un viaje a lo largo de cuarenta años a Sicilia, a la Cuba […]

La escritora, catedrática y poeta afro-puertorriqueña MAYRA SANTOS FEBRES presenta su nueva obra La otra Julia donde se narra la corta e intensa vida de la poeta puertorriqueña Julia de Burgos García en la voz de una autora que lidia con sus propios conflictos y dificultades. Santos Febres dialogará con la escritora ANJANETTE DELGADO. Compra […]

La periodista y escritora GINA MONTANER presenta la crónica íntima y conmovedora de la trayectoria sin retorno de su padre Carlos Alberto Montaner, con el trasfondo de la eutanasia. La autora conversará con la periodista y conductora GLORIA ORDAZ. CON EL APOYO DE   Compra Deséenme buen viaje – Montaner

The real story of Miami’s “Cocaine Cowboys” Join veteran Miami journalist JIM DEFEDE and filmmakers BILLY CORBEN and ALFRED SPELLMAN as they share memories of Miami in the wild 1990s through the strange-but-true exploits, excesses, and ultimate downfall of two local drug kingpins. DeFede’s decadelong coverage of the federal government’s pursuit of Augusta “Willy” Falcon and Salvador Magluta, the Magic City’s […]

La Feria del Libro de Miami del Miami Dade College, el Consulado de la República Argentina en Miami, el Instituto Cultural de México y la Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española invitan al Homenaje a Jorge Luis Borges y Alfonso Reyes. Una conversación entre la Directora del Instituto Cultural de México, ministra y artista plástica […]

Join us for the 2024 Speak Up Summer Camp Showcase, where creativity and teamwork shine! After a week of writing and insightful guidance from counselors and guest speakers, young writers united with their cabin mates to create a final piece under the mentorship of their cabin instructor. From slideshows and poems to zines, stories, videos, […]

The second annual celebration dinner supporting Miami Book Fair’s Next Decade Friday, November 22, 2024 | JW Marriott Marquis | Miami MiamiBookFair.com/NextPage For more information about The Next Page and MBF’s Next Decade Fund, contact Lisa Better at 305.790.7597 or LBetter@mdc.edu.

“Haiti in the Media: Navigating Narratives of Haiti in Global Media” promises to be a compelling examination of how Haiti is portrayed by the media. This panel’s distinguished lineup of journalists includes Elizabeth Guerin from Island TV, who’ll provide a unique view of Haitian news and culture; Patrick Eliancy, also from Island TV, a prominent […]

“Artificial Intelligence in the Arts: Empowering Writers, Content Creators, and Businesses in the Digital Age” features an exceptional lineup of panelists: Dan Grech, founder and CEO of BizHack, who brings a wealth of knowledge in digital marketing; Carelia Alvarado from The Online Bridge, renowned for her insights into the intersection of technology and education; and […]

Afro-Caribbean spiritual traditions are rich in lore and include a cast of deities with complicated backstories and personalities – as well as rituals to honor and curry their favor – that rival the Greco-Roman pantheon of gods and demigods we’re most familiar with in the United States. In Miami, where the migration patterns of many […]

Magela Baudoin y Fernando Barrientos, directores de Mantis y El Cuervo, presentan sus editoriales y dialogan acerca del panorama de la edición independiente en Bolivia. ______________ Magela Baudoin. Escritora, periodista y editora boliviana-venezolana, es autora del libro de entrevistas Mujeres de Costado (2010); de la novela El sonido de la H, Premio Nacional de Novela […]

Author MADELINE MILLER will deliver the 2024 NEA Big Read Miami keynote address, followed by a conversation with author and illustrator GEORGE O’CONNOR on the themes found in the book, including the retelling of myths and the persistence of thousand-year old tales.   Miller has been a force in bringing mythology to the masses with her bestselling novels Song of […]

La Feria del Libro de Miami del Miami Dade College, el Consulado de la República Argentina en Miami, el Instituto Cultural de México y la Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española invitan al HOMENAJE A OCTAVIO PAZ. Conversación entre la Directora del Instituto Cultural de México, ministra y artista plástica ADRIANA TORRES SÁNCHEZ y la […]