Inspired by her encounter with Dr. Chevalier Jackson’s collection of ingested curiosities at Philadelphia’s Mütter Museum, Kimiko Hahn’s 10th collection, Foreign Bodies, investigates the grip that seemingly insignificant objects exert on our lives. Itself a cabinet of curiosities, the collection provokes the same surprise, wonder, and pangs of recognition Hahn felt upon opening drawer after […]
African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song is a literary landmark: the biggest, most ambitious anthology of Black poetry ever published, gathering 250 poets from the colonial period to the present. Only now, in the 21st century, can we fully grasp the breadth and range of African American poetry: a magnificent chorus of […]
Librarian of Congress Dr. Carla Hayden sits down with Campbell McGrath, Nouns & Verbs: New and Selected Poems, to kick off Miami Book Fair’s 2020 series, “A U.S. Poet Laureate in Conversation.” They will share what the position of the U.S. Poet Laureate is and does, how the Library and Librarian of Congress work with […]
Take a tour of the dark and uncomfortable corners of criminal minds! In Ed Brubaker’s Cruel Summer, sons follow fathers down the same hopeless criminal paths. Julia Gfrorer’s Vision: Book 1 introduces readers to a Victorian spinster on the path to blindness, as she navigates her mysterious and demanding family while finding sexual solace in […]
Racism and hatred, grief and loss, form actual monsters that only the Sangerye family can fight in David Walker’s Bitter Roots series. Kwanza Osajeyfo’s Black AF universe takes a macabre turn in Widows and Orphans, as Black babies with superpowers are bartered and sold. And Brandon Thomas’ Excellence imagines a world in which magic is […]
Self-care is more important than ever in a pandemic, and this discussion has something for everyone tuning in! Tyler Feder (Dancing at the Pity Party), A. Andrews (A Quick and Easy Guide to Sex & Disability), Vivian Chong (Dancing After TEN), and Lucy Sullivan (Barking) are here to speak comforting and lively truth to accessible […]
Autores internacionales nos presentan sus obras, en una amena conversación entre amigos. Guillermo Arriaga conversa sobre Salvar el fuego con el periodista Jorge Ramos. El escritor mexicano Guillermo Arriaga ha publicado las novelas Escuadrón Guillotina, Un dulce olor a muerte, El búfalo de la noche y El salvaje, Premio Mazatlán de Literatura 2017 al mejor […]
LIVE! Event starts Friday, November 20 @ 8 p.m. Part family drama, part social essay, part picaresque novel, Pulitzer Prize winner Ayad Akhtar's Homeland Elegies attempts to make sense of a post-9/11 country in which the gods of finance rule, debt has ruined countless lives, and immigrants live in fear. He’s speaking with Iraq war […]
Agustina Bazterrica y Giovanna Rivero conversan con Ainara Mantellini. La Feria del Libro de Miami presenta una selección de nuevas obras publicadas este año, comentadas por sus autores. Agustina Bazterrica, narradora y promotora de arte argentina, presenta Cadáver exquisito (Alfaguara), una novela distópica en la que el canibalismo es ley y la sociedad se divide […]
Grades 3 – 7 In this highly anticipated sequel to Tony DiTerlizzi’s Kenny & the Dragon, Kenny must cope with many changes in his life – including the fear that he’s losing his best friend. What can come between two best friends? Time has passed since Kenny Rabbit’s last adventure with his best friend, the […]
Live Q&A: Friday, November 20 @ 7:00 - 7:30 p.m. EST The 21st century has brought unprecedented evidence of the prevalence of sexual abuse and assault. Finally, the world is beginning to recognize the depraved and hypocritical actions of celebrities, politicians, CEOs, and Hollywood moguls. People everywhere are speaking out in outrage, to express support […]
LIVE! Event starts Friday, November 20 @ 6 p.m. Two sisters present their latest works in a conversation informed by the dynamic of the familiar. Louise Erdrich’s novel The Night Watchman explores themes of love and death with lightness and gravity. It's a fictional world populated by memorable characters forced to grapple with the […]