In Sorry for Your Trouble, a collection of short stories, Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Ford offers a moving meditation on memory, love, and loss. From a 16-year-old fatherless boy in “Displaced” to the fiftysomething widower suddenly navigating life alone and untethered in “The Run of Yourself,” Ford’s protagonists are all mourning, both the people who […]
Christopher Beha's The Index of Self-Destructive Acts is a sharp family portrait, a masterful evocation of New York City and its institutions, and an exploration of how each generation’s failure helped land us where we are today. He’s speaking with Greg Jackson, whose debut fiction work Prodigals is populated by strivers, misfits, and children of […]
Grades 3 – 7 Introduced and moderated by Leslie C. Campbell, school counselor at Park Lakes Elementary. In Class Act, Jerry Craft’s companion novel to New Kid, eighth-grader Drew Ellis, one of the few kids of color in a prestigious private school, faces privilege and the value of friendship. Kereen Getten’s When Life Gives You […]
The Koubek Center presents a special edition of Little Havana Social Club ¡en casa! for MBF's Here In Florida program, bringing home the sounds and spirit of the Caribbean with a contemporary Miami touch! Rooted in tradition but also electric and cosmopolitan, this monthly concert series features artists such as reggae powerhouse Jahfé, singer-songwriter Leslie […]
Live program + Q&A! Starts @ 8:30 p.m. EST. In It's Not All Downhill From Here, Terry McMillan’s 10th consecutive New York Times bestselling work of fiction, Loretha Curry is on the eve of her 68th birthday and has much to be happy about: a booming beauty-supply empire, lifelong friends, and a husband who still […]
Program + LIVE Q&A! Starts @ 7:30 p.m. EST. Democratic candidates may take the Hispanic vote for granted at their own peril. In The Hispanic Republican: The Shaping of an American Political Identity, from Nixon to Trump, Geraldo Cadava, associate professor of history and Latina and Latino studies at Northwestern University, offers insights into the […]
Armando Nuviola, junto al autor Oscar Montoto, conversan sobre las publicaciones de Nosyotros. La Feria del Libro de Miami siempre ha sentido la necesidad de dar espacio en su programación a otras manifestaciones artísticas que se interconectan con la literatura y el universo editorial. La música es una de ellas. La edición del 2020 no […]
Grades 9 – 12 Moderated by Brittany Rubiano, editor at Disney/Hyperion. Three authors take on age-old fairy tales, with a twist. In Liz Braswell’s Straight On Till Morning, 16-year-old Wendy Darling's only real escape is in writing down tales of Never Land – and then gets an opportunity to travel to Never Land via pirate […]
Grades 9 – 12 Moderated by Lauren Odom, librarian at the African American Research Library and Cultural Center. Christina Hammonds Reed’s The Black Kids explores issues of race, class, and violence through the eyes of a wealthy Black teenager in L.A. whose family gets caught in the vortex of the 1992 Rodney King Riots. Tiffany […]
Grades 9 – 12 Moderated by Ismery Pavon, program coordinator at Miami Book Fair. In I'll Be The One, Lyla Lee introduces us to fat girl Skye Shin, who dreams of joining the world of K-Pop – even if it means breaking all the rules that society, the media, and even her own mother, have […]
Grades PreK – 3 Introduced by Cierra Bragan, Miami Mom Collective. Let's get real – the English language is bizarre. A might be for apple, but it's also for aisle and aeons. Why does the word "gnat" start with a G but the word "knot" doesn't start with an N? It doesn't always make sense […]
There is something astonishing about the ardor with which Carol Frost articulates and sings the sorrows of our disappearing in her newest poetry collection, Alias City. There's something so wise in the song, in the music of her tough, clear seeing. Her poems have a fierce, unswerving purity of purpose and design, their embodying language […]