DANIELA RUS’ The Mind’s Mirror: Risk and Reward in the Age of AI, co-written with Gregory Mone, is an introduction to the true potential of AI and a lively exploration of the underlying technology and its limitations and possibilities. In Mindless: The Human Condition in the Machine Age, ROBERT SKIDELSKY explores our relationship with machines, […]
Author and award-winning journalist FRANK BRUNI’s The Age of Grievance examines how resentments over injustice – perceived or real – has come to define today’s culture and politics. At a time when more and more Americans are convinced they’re losing because someone else is winning, and people are taking their grievances to new extremes, Bruni […]
With Also a Poet: Frank O’Hara, My Father, and Me, ADA CALHOUN sets out to complete an unfinished biography started 40 years earlier by her father, celebrated art critic Peter Schjeldahl. Grief Is for People is SLOANE CROSLEY’s moving memoir and a portrait of friendship that explores multiple kinds of loss after the death of […]
On October 7, 2023, Jews in Israel were attacked in the largest pogrom since the Holocaust. On Being Jewish Now: Reflections from Authors and Advocates – an intimate collection of smart, meaningful, funny, emotional, and inspiring essays, edited by ZIBBY OWENS – gives voice to 75 contributors who shared their thoughts on what it means […]
The ROCK BOTTOM REMAINDERS, an endearingly ragtag cover band established in 1992 and mostly made up of high-profile published authors, performed at Miami Book Fair more than a dozen times over the years. And they’re reuniting right here this year, bringing together a lineup not seen together on stage for more than a decade! Meet […]
What happened to young Elphaba, once a relatable young girl, before her witchy powers took hold in Wicked? Almost 30 years after the publication of the original novel – setting the stage for the international phenomenon Wicked: The Musical – GREGORY MAGUIRE reveals the story of the prickly young Wicked Witch of the West-to-be in […]
DAVID GREENBERG’s John Lewis: A Life captures the legacy of the civil rights icon through long-lost footage, never-before-used FBI documents, and interviews with hundreds of people who knew him, including Lewis himself. In LEONARD PITTS JR.’s 54 Miles: A Novel, a family confronts painful memories, past trauma, and racial injustice during a few pivotal weeks […]
Former U.S. Poet Laureate BILLY COLLINS reads from his latest book and discusses the role of poetry in the community. In Water, Water, he combines his vigilant attention and respect for the peripheral to create moments of delight and capture the beauties and ironies of everyday experience in 60 new poems. Moderated by ROBERT CASPER, […]
In Welcome to Pawnee: Stories of Friendship, Waffles, and Parks and Recreation, Emmy Award-winning actor JIM O’HEIR offers a heartfelt behind-the-scenes look at one of America’s most beloved sitcoms – including never-before-told stories and dozens of unseen photos. Joining him in conversation is comedy writer ALAN ZWEIBEL, author of Laugh Lines: My Life Helping Funny People Be Funnier. SPONSORED BY […]
KARA SWISHER’s Burn Book: A Tech Love Story – part memoir, part history – tells the inside story of Silicon Valley and tech’s most powerful players, including Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Sheryl Sandberg, Bob Iger, and Mark Zuckerberg. Together and at odds, they ruled over an explosion of world-changing innovation that […]
Desperately Seeking Something: A Memoir About Movies, Mothers, and Material Girls is SUSAN SEIDELMAN’s first-person story of her trailblazing four-decade career in film, which began when few women were directing movies. From her Twiggy-obsessed girlhood through the women’s liberation movement of the early 1970s, the Madonna-mania of the ’80s, and beyond, Seidelman offers a keen […]
In ANN HOOD’s The Stolen Child: A Novel, a former WWI soldier enlists a college dropout to help him solve a decades-old mystery, leading both to reckon with regret, betrayal, and the lives they left behind. In ROXANA ROBINSON’s Leaving: A Novel, college lovers Sarah and Warren reconnect after a chance meeting and embark on […]