Storytime: Dogs at Work: Good Dogs. Real Jobs.
On DemandHave you ever wondered what dogs do all day when their people leave for school or their jobs? What if they went to work, too? Margaret Cardillo’s Dogs at Work: […]
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Mystery, Magic & Mayhem: Three Graphic Novel Adventures
On DemandBarb the Last Berzerker must free her fellow warriors and stop Witch Head from taking over Bailiwick in this side-splitting graphic novel by Dan Abdo and Jason Patterson. In Nidhi […]
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Wild Tongues Can’t Be Tamed: 15 Voices from the Latinx Diaspora
On DemandIn Wild Tongues Can’t Be Tamed: 15 Voices from the Latinx Diaspora, bestselling and award-winning authors as well as up-and-coming voices interrogate the different myths and stereotypes about the Latinx […]
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Poesía en español sin fronteras
Livestream + In PersonThis event is being livestreamed from MDC's Wolfson Campus. For tickets to this in-person event, please visit: MiamiBookFair.com. Volvemos a encontrarnos en persona y los invitamos a una cita con la poesía contemporánea. Alejandro Pérez […]
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Una tarde con Pilar Quintana
Livestream + In PersonThis event is being livestreamed from MDC's Wolfson Campus. For tickets to this in-person event, please visit: MiamiBookFair.com. Speakers: Pilar Quintana, Beatriz Mendoza Es un gusto para la Feria recibir este año a la narradora […]
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An Evening With Amor Towles: On The Lincoln Highway: A Novel
Livestream + In PersonThis 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 […]
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Rabih Alameddine: On The Wrong End of the Telescope: A Novel
On DemandMina Simpson, the narrator of Rabih Alameddine’s The Wrong End of the Telescope: A Novel, is a transgender Lebanese doctor volunteering in the Moria refugee camp on Lesbos, Greece. As […]
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In Conversation: On Pinkie Promises
On DemandPolly, the protagonist of Sen. Elizabeth Warren and illustrator Charlene Chua’s Pinkie Promises, knows she’s strong and capable. But whenever she offers to help her uncle or brother or neighbor, […]
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In Conversation: On Our Last Blue Moon: A Memoir
On DemandIn Our Last Blue Moon: A Memoir, her first book, psychotherapist and former dancer and choreographer Kris O’Shee tells the story of the loss of her husband, Alan Cheuse, the […]
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Merissa Nathan Gerson: On Forget Prayers, Bring Cake: A Single Woman’s Guide to Grieving
On DemandMerissa Nathan Gerson’s Forget Prayers, Bring Cake: A Single Woman’s Guide to Grieving is a relatable account of one woman’s reckoning with loss, and a guide to the world of […]
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In Conversation: On The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from The New Yorker
On DemandThe Matter of Black Lives: Writing from The New Yorker is a collection of the venerated magazine's writing on race in America. Spanning a century, this anthology edited by Jelani […]
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In Conversation: On Sit Down to Rise Up: How Radical Self-Care Can Change the World
On DemandMindfulness doesn’t have to be an individualistic solution to our challenges. In Sit Down to Rise Up: How Radical Self-Care Can Change the World, Shelly Tygielski argues that mindfulness can […]
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In Conversation: On Somebody’s Daughter: A Memoir & An American Marriage: A Novel.
On DemandSomebody’s Daughter: A Memoir is Ashley C. Ford's powerful debut work, a story of growing up a poor Black girl in Indiana battling her body and her environment, within a […]
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In Conversation: On Three Girls from Bronzeville: A Uniquely American Memoir of Race, Fate, and Sisterhood
On DemandDawn Turner’s memoir Three Girls from Bronzeville: A Uniquely American Memoir of Race, Fate, and Sisterhood is about three Black women – Turner, her younger sister Kim, and her best […]
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In Conversation: On The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto
On DemandDrawing on both political observations and personal experience as a Black son of the South, New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow heralds a call to action in The Devil […]
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In Conversation: On Dream Girl: A Novel & The Dark Hours
On DemandIn Dream Girl: A Novel, Laura Lippman shares the story of writer Gerry Andersen, injured in a freak fall and confined to a hospital bed in his high-rise apartment. Then […]
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In Conversation: On A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
On DemandIn A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance, poet, essayist, and cultural critic Hanif Abdurraqib examines how Black performance, from music to dance to schoolyard fistfights, […]
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John Lithgow: On A Confederacy of Dumptys: Portraits of American Scoundrels in Verse
On DemandIn A Confederacy of Dumptys: Portraits of American Scoundrels in Verse, actor, author, and illustrator John Lithgow, with cutting humor, offers a rogues’ gallery of American villains, powerful men and […]
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In Conversation: On Piranesi
On DemandSusanna Clarke’s Piranesi is set in a dreamlike alternative reality, where the house inhabited by its namesake protagonist is no ordinary building: Within its infinite labyrinth of halls, an ocean […]
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In Conversation: On Burnt Sugar: A Novel & The Archer
On DemandAvni Doshi's Burnt Sugar: A Novel is a story of love and betrayal between a mother and her daughter, who now confronts the task of caring for a woman who […]
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A U.S. Poet Laureate in Conversation
On DemandJoy Harjo, the first Native American to serve as U.S. poet laureate, celebrates the stories of her ancestors and family as well as the influences that shaped her work in […]
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2020 National Poetry Series Winner W.J. Herbert
On DemandThe National Poetry Series was established in 1978 to recognize and promote excellence in contemporary poetry by ensuring the publication of five books of poetry annually through participating publishers. In […]
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A New Reckoning: Two Graywolf Poets on Spirituality, Survival, & the Second Book
On DemandThe Renunciations: Poems is a book of resilience, survival, and the journey to radically shift one’s sense of self in the face of trauma. Moving between a childhood marked by […]
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A Reading & Conversation With Ana Castillo
On DemandIn My Book of the Dead: New Poems, essayist, editor, activist, novelist, and translator Ana Castillo returns to her first literary love, poetry, and unflinchingly addresses some of the bitter […]
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Un café con Carmen Posadas
On DemandLa laureada escritora uruguayo-española Carmen Posadas escoge como protagonista de su nueva novela histórica a La peregrina, la perla más famosa de todos los tiempos procedente de las aguas del […]
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Centenario del nacimiento de Augusto Monterroso
On DemandLos narradores Ana María Shua (Argentina), Pía Barros (Chile), Agustín Monsreal (México), Raúl Brasca (Argentina), Pablo Montoya (Colombia) y José María Merino (España) dialogan sobre la obra del gran escritor […]
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An Evening With Lee Child, Andrew Child & Harlan Coben: On Better Off Dead: A Jack Reacher Novel
LivestreamCaptioning and Audience Q&A: To access the live-captioning option and/or submit questions for the audience Q&A, please join using the Zoom link and passcode you received in your ticket confirmation […]
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An Evening With Jean Becker & Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush: On The Man I Knew: The Amazing Story of George H.W. Bush’s Post-Presidency
Livestream + In PersonThis event is being livestreamed from MDC's Wolfson Campus. For tickets to this in-person event, please visit: MiamiBookFair.com. Jean Becker’s The Man I Knew: The Amazing Story of George H.W. Bush’s Post-Presidency tells how, after […]
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An Evening With Sarah Schulman & Jackson Howard: On Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993
Livestream + In PersonThis event is being livestreamed from MDC's Wolfson Campus. For tickets to this in-person event, please visit: MiamiBookFair.com. Based on more than 200 interviews with Act Up members, author Sarah Schulman’s Let the Record Show: […]
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In Conversation: On Three Novels: Ruthie Fear, Adana Moreau & Disappearing Earth
On DemandRuthie Fear, Maxim Loskutoff's debut novel, presents the rural West as a place balanced on a knife-edge, at war with itself, but still unbearably beautiful and full of love. Michael […]
In Conversation: On The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth
On DemandDrawing upon 25 years of experience representing Black youth in the juvenile courts of Washington, D.C., Georgetown professor Kristin Henning analyzes the foundations of racist policing in America in The […]
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In Conversation: On Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America
On DemandIn Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America, Leila Lalami recounts her unlikely journey from Moroccan immigrant to U.S. citizen, using it as a starting point for her exploration of American […]
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In Conversation: On The State You’re in: Florida Men, Florida Women, and Other Wildlife & The Thing About Florida: Exploring a Misunderstood State
On DemandInvestigative journalist and New York Times bestselling author Craig Pittman has covered Florida for 30 years. In The State You're in: Florida Men, Florida Women, and Other Wildlife, which features […]
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In Conversation: On Love of My Life: A Memoir
On DemandIn Love of My Life: A Memoir, Barbara Mailer Wasserman shares more of her incredible life. A classical pianist and Radcliffe College graduate who opted to work as a secretary […]
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In Conversation: On New York and the International Sound of Latin Music, 1940-1990
On DemandIn New York and the International Sound of Latin Music, 1940-1990, scholar, educator, composer, arranger, and Grammy-nominated musician Benjamin Lapidus examines how New York City became a hub for transnational […]
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In Conversation: On Wyman and the Florida Knights
On DemandIn Larry Baker’s novel Wyman and the Florida Knights, Peter Wyman, the most famous portrait painter in America, just wants to go into hiding and disappear. Then a cashier in […]
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In Conversation: On The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic: Revised and Expanded Edition
On DemandPublished in 2015 and reissued now with new material and an introduction by Samantha Irby, Jessica Hopper’s The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic is a […]
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In Conversation: On Picturing Cuba: Art, Culture, and Identity on the Island and in the Diaspora
On DemandEdited by Jorge Duany, director of the Cuban Research Institute and Professor of Anthropology at Florida International University, and featuring an impressive list of contributors, Picturing Cuba: Art, Culture, and […]
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In Conversation: On Downtown Miami History, Chronicling 125 Years, 1896-2021
On DemandIn Downtown Miami History, Chronicling 125 Years, 1896-2021, editor Raul Guerrero combines book excerpts, essays, articles, memoirs, trivia, interviews, and a poem by Campbell McGrath to engagingly relay the past […]
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In Conversation: On Peak Mind: Find Your Focus, Own Your Attention, Invest 12 Minutes a Day
On DemandIn Peak Mind: Find Your Focus, Own Your Attention, Invest 12 Minutes a Day, neuroscientist Amishi P. Jha, Ph.D., director of contemplative neuroscience and professor at the University of Miami, […]
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In Conversation: On The Animal Days
On DemandThe Animal Days is the translation of Keila Vall de la Ville’s Los días animales, winner of the 2018 International Latino Book Award. It follows Julia’s journey of love and […]
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In Conversation: On Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence
On DemandIn 1991, Anita F. Hill offered landmark testimony against soon-to-be Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas as a sexual menace. Her Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence is part […]
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FSG Celebrates 75 Years of Poetry: Frank Bidart & Yusef Komunyakaa
On DemandIn Against Silence: Poems, Frank Bidart writes of the cycles we cannot escape and the feelings we cannot forget. Our history is not a tabula rasa, but a repeating, refining […]
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2020 National Poetry Series Winner Trevor Ketner
On DemandThe National Poetry Series was established in 1978 to recognize and promote excellence in contemporary poetry by ensuring the publication of five books of poetry annually through participating publishers. In […]
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Loaded Terms: Poets on Identity & Truth
On DemandIn Extremely Lightweight Guns: Poems, Nikki Moustaki explores femininity in contexts that grapple with violence, mental illness, loss, love, and relationships. She probes these themes through various provocative narratives, settings, […]
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Three Poets on Hurricanes, History & the Converse MFA
On DemandWhen her Florida apartment is damaged by the ferocity of Hurricane Irma, Denise Duhamel turns to Dante and terza rima, reconstructing the form into the long poem “Terza Irma.” Throughout […]
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Hard-Earned Wisdom: Two Poets on Small Ecstasies & Difficult Loves
On DemandIn The Impossible: Poems, Deborah DeNicola explores landscapes of her own passion, her mother’s decline, and her father’s life, death, and imagined afterlife with hard-earned wisdom, transforming the personal into […]
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Un café con Don Francisco
On DemandCreador y presentador desde 1962 de Sábado gigante, el programa de variedades de más larga duración en la historia de la televisión, el legendario Don Francisco ha recibido desde un […]
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De cárceles y sueños de libertad
On DemandEl periodista cubano Pedro Corzo, quien trabaja en Radio Martí, en WLRN y en El Nuevo Herald, presenta junto al periodista Orlando Gutiérrez la obra Armando Sosa Fortuny, mártir de […]
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El poder de lo cotidiano en la novela
On DemandLa narradora argentina Marina Condó presenta Flores de la calle, obra ganadora del premio SED 2021, que combina el tema del viaje con lo marginal, el fanatismo y el amor. […]
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