Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood tells the extraordinary story of Danny Trejo, one of the most recognizable character actors in Hollywood. Written with fellow actor Donal Logue, Trejo recounts an up-and-down journey that starts in an abusive home, includes struggles with heroin addiction and stints in some of the country's most notorious […]
In Cuban Memory Wars: Retrospective Politics in Revolution and Exile, Michael J. Bustamante, Ph.D., associate professor and the Emilio Bacardí Moreau Chair in Cuban and Cuban-American Studies at the University of Miami, argues that Cubans' battles over the past helped shape the course of Cuban history itself. Beyond the polarized vision seemingly set in stone […]
In Justice On the Brink: The Death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Rise of Amy Coney Barrett, and Twelve Months That Transformed the Supreme Court, New York Times Pulitzer Prize-winning legal reporter Linda Greenhouse chronicles the Supreme Court’s 2020-21 term, from the death of RGB to the rise of Barrett. Moderated by Joan Biskupic, CNN […]
In poetry and prose, Steven Reigns’ A Quilt for David explores the story of David Acer, whose homosexuality and sickly appearance from AIDS-related illness made him the perfect scapegoat and a victim of mob mentality in his conservative, early 1990s-era Florida town. Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing Up with […]
This event is being livestreamed from MDC's Wolfson Campus. For tickets to this in-person event, please visit: MiamiBookFair.com. Freedom is Sebastian Junger’s account of a year spent on the road with three friends as they walked the railroad lines of the East Coast. At once an experiment in personal autonomy and interdependence, the journey became an intense exploration of our most cherished, […]
In his memoir One Friday in April: A Story of Suicide and Survival, Donald Antrim recounts what led him to the roof of his building and what happened after he came back down. He reframes suicide – whether in thought or action – as an illness in its own right, and a unique consequence of […]
La narradora argentina Marina Condó presenta Flores de la calle, obra ganadora del premio SED 2021, que combina el tema del viaje con lo marginal, el fanatismo y el amor. Gerardo Fernández Fe, novelista, poeta, ensayista y traductor cubano llega con Hotel Singapur, novela en la que las historias de vida de varios personajes se […]
El periodista cubano Pedro Corzo, quien trabaja en Radio Martí, en WLRN y en El Nuevo Herald, presenta junto al periodista Orlando Gutiérrez la obra Armando Sosa Fortuny, mártir de la libertad, que reúne testimonios y una semblanza sobre este preso político cubano que pasó cuarenta y tres años de su vida en las cárceles […]
Creador y presentador desde 1962 de Sábado gigante, el programa de variedades de más larga duración en la historia de la televisión, el legendario Don Francisco ha recibido desde un Premio Emmy hasta el título de Embajador de UNICEF. Este año llega a la Feria para presentar el libro en que reunió sus memorias personales […]
In The Impossible: Poems, Deborah DeNicola explores landscapes of her own passion, her mother’s decline, and her father’s life, death, and imagined afterlife with hard-earned wisdom, transforming the personal into something beyond universal – the possibility that each life, encompassing its own suffering, questing, and small ecstasies, is really a stage toward a greater “becoming.” […]
When her Florida apartment is damaged by the ferocity of Hurricane Irma, Denise Duhamel turns to Dante and terza rima, reconstructing the form into the long poem “Terza Irma.” Throughout her new poetry collection, Second Story: Poems, she investigates our near-catastrophic ecological and political moment, hyper aware of her own complicity, resistance, and agency. With […]
In Extremely Lightweight Guns: Poems, Nikki Moustaki explores femininity in contexts that grapple with violence, mental illness, loss, love, and relationships. She probes these themes through various provocative narratives, settings, and forms, from prose to diary-like entries. In her debut collection Tortillera: Poems, Caridad Moro-Gronlier not only applies the homophobic Spanish-language term for lesbians to […]