In 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 rather than teach, she writes of skewering Randolph Churchill, smuggling fascist dictator Francisco Franco’s political prisoners across the French border in 1948, and hearing the […]
Investigative 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 a selection of his columns for the Tampa Bay Times, he writes about the state's oddest wildlife and its quirkiest people – and vice versa. […]
In 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 rights, liberties, and the place of nonwhites in the broader American culture. Moderated by author Marie Arana.
Drawing 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 Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth. In the process, she makes a compelling case that the crisis in racist American policing began with […]
Ruthie 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 Zapata’s The Lost Book of Adana Moreau tells the mesmerizing story of a Latin American science fiction writer and the lives her lost manuscript unites […]
This 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: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993 offers a revelatory exploration and reassessment of the inner workings, conflicts, achievements, and ultimate fracture of […]
This 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 his loss to Bill Clinton in 1992, former President Bush rebuilt his life and found a way to make a difference. Joining Becker is former […]
Captioning 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 email. Jack Reacher was heading west and walking under the desert when he came upon a curious scene: A Jeep crashed into the only tree […]
Los 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 nacido en Honduras y formado en Guatemala Augusto Monterroso, maestro del microrrelato, al cumplirse cien años de su nacimiento. Con el apoyo del
La 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 mar Caribe; un objeto destinado a pasar de mano a mano y a tener una trayectoria azarosa y aventurera. La autora conversará con la promotora […]
In 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 realities of the past decade: the environmental crisis, COVID-19, children in detention camps, and Trump's presidency. Moderated by author Michael Torres, An Incomplete List of […]
The 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 love and abuse and the breaking marriage of that adult child, Donika Kelly charts memory and the body as landscapes to be traversed and tended. […]