Established in 1990, African American Read In is a national initiative designed to celebrate black history and culture. This year Miami Dade College’s North Campus in partnership with Miami Book Fair will host Andrew Aydin, coauthor with the late Congressman John Lewis and illustrator Nate Powell of the graphic memoir RUN: Book One about Lewis’s […]
Miami Book Fair and Books & Books are excited to partner with indies across the country for this special conversation with Isabel Allende for her newest book, Violeta! Event will take place on Zoom. Access to the event requires a book purchase. Here is the B&B Eventbrite link to purchase: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/violeta-a-virtual-evening-with-isabel-allende-tickets-229050986667 Miami Book Fair and […]
José Martí y Pérez, Apóstol de la Independencia de Cuba, vivió apenas cuarenta y dos años. Logró, durante ese tiempo, objetivos que la razón no puede explicar: su extensa obra literaria y la dedicada a fundar la República de Cuba exigieron de él un gran esfuerzo físico e intelectual. Su vida nos hace pensar en […]
Una tertulia literaria guiada. Embriaga a tu editor interno y ¡exprésate con libertad desde la cuarentena! ¡El COVID 19 no impide que nos contactemos a través de la escritura! Así es como funciona: te damos un tema, escribes durante diez minutos. Si quieres, compartes el texto con el resto de los participantes. Hacemos una pausa […]
Yi Won confronts a wired, technological world, often in the mirror, in these inventive, daring and subversive poems. A successor to Korean feminist poets like Kim Hyesoon, Yi Won frequently writes about the perilousness of maintaining one’s human identity in a high-tech, digital environment. In this debut book in English, her poems range from avant-garde […]
There are many bestselling authors, but few can legitimately claim that they reinvented a literary genre. By blending the supernatural with the gothic, Anne Rice’s first novel, Interview with the Vampire, did just that. The ensuing Vampire Chronicles series created both a cult following and great mainstream success. Rice was the author of more than […]
This event is being livestreamed from MDC's Wolfson Campus. For tickets to this in-person event, please visit: MiamiBookFair.com. Mango and Peppercorns: A Memoir of Food, an Unlikely Family, and the American Dream, written by Katherine Manning, Tung Nguyen, and Lyn Nguyen – the chefs and principals behind the storied Hy Vong Vietnamese restaurant in Miami – is a powerful memoir […]
This event is being livestreamed from MDC's Wolfson Campus. For tickets to this in-person event, please visit: MiamiBookFair.com. Talia, the protagonist of Patricia Engel’s Infinite Country: A Novel, is being held at a correctional facility in Colombia. Her father and a plane ticket to the U.S. are waiting for her back home in Bogotá. And her story, a tale of […]
This event is being livestreamed from MDC's Wolfson Campus. For tickets to this in-person event, please visit: MiamiBookFair.com. In Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story, Miami Herald investigative reporter Julie K. Brown revisits the case of justice-a-la-carte for the billionaire title subject in his case of soliciting prostitution from minors. Her resulting series helped bring about the arrest of […]
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. In Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could, Congressman Adam Schiff posits that the Trump presidency has so weakened […]
This event is being livestreamed from MDC's Wolfson Campus. For tickets to this in-person event, please visit: MiamiBookFair.com. In Battle for the Big Top: P.T. Barnum, James Bailey, John Ringling, and the Death-Defying Saga of the American Circus, Les Standiford brings to life a remarkable era when James Bailey, P.T. Barnum, and John Ringling vied for control of the profitable […]
This event is being livestreamed from MDC's Wolfson Campus. For tickets to this in-person event, please visit: MiamiBookFair.com. From the late Congressman John Lewis (1940-2020) and his co-author and collaborator Andrew Aydin comes Run: Book One, the first installment of a powerful new graphic novel series focusing on the struggle for civil rights and the personal story of Lewis, one […]