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In Conversation: On Justice on the Brink: The Death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Rise of Amy Coney Barrett, and Twelve Months That Transformed the Supreme Court

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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 […]

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In Conversation: On A Quilt for David & Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing Up with the AIDS Crisis

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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 […]

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An Evening With Sebastian Junger & Bryan Christy: On Freedom

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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, […]

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In Conversation: On One Friday in April: A Story of Suicide and Survival

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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 […]

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El poder de lo cotidiano en la novela

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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 […]

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De cárceles y sueños de libertad

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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 […]

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Un café con Don Francisco

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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 […]

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Hard-Earned Wisdom: Two Poets on Small Ecstasies & Difficult Loves

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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.” […]

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Three Poets on Hurricanes, History & the Converse MFA

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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 […]

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Loaded Terms: Poets on Identity & Truth

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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 […]

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2020 National Poetry Series Winner Trevor Ketner

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The National Poetry Series was established in 1978 to recognize and promote excellence in contemporary poetry by ensuring the publication of five books of poetry annually through participating publishers. In addition, the National Poetry Series has partnered with Miami Book Fair to award the Paz Prize in Poetry, which ensures bilingual publication for a book […]

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FSG Celebrates 75 Years of Poetry: Frank Bidart & Yusef Komunyakaa

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In Against Silence: Poems, Frank Bidart writes of the cycles we cannot escape and the feelings we cannot forget. Our history is not a tabula rasa, but a repeating, refining story of love and hate, of words spoken and cruelties enacted. Moving among the dead and the living, the figures of his life and of […]

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