This program is being livestreamed from MDC’s Wolfson Campus. For more information about this in-person program, please visit MiamiBookFair.com. In Hold the Line: The Insurrection and One Cop’s Battle for America’s Soul, former Metropolitan Police Department officer and current CNN analyst Michael Fanone tells the story of the day insurrectionists stormed the Capitol – a day he nearly lost his […]
With more than 365 photographs taking you through a single year, A Book of Days offers a new way to experience the expansive mind of Patti Smith – visionary poet, writer, and performer. Including photos from her Instagram account, vintage images, and archives, the book charts her passions, devotions, obsessions, and whims, and opens with […]
Esta presentación en persona también será transmitida en MiamiBookFair.com. ¿Entramos en una nueva era puritana? ¿Existe un nuevo activismo liberticida? Hay temor a expresarse, en la universidad y en la empresa, y a cómo será interpretada una canción, una obra literaria o un artículo de opinión. Las libertades de expresión y creación parecen en recesión […]
In Koshersoul: The Faith and Food Journey of an African American Jew, culinary and cultural historian Michael W. Twitty explores the crossroads of Jewish and African diaspora cuisine – and issues of memory, identity, and food. The question that most intrigues him is not just who makes the food, but how the food makes the […]
Michelle Huneven’s Search: A Novel follows Dana, restaurant critic, food writer, and member of a progressive Unitarian Universalist church in Southern California, as she writes a memoir-with-recipes about her work on the committee tasked with finding a new minister for the congregation – a search that boils down a stark choice between two very different […]
Julia Armfield’s Our Wives Under the Sea: A Novel follows marine biologist Leah, who left for a routine expedition months earlier, only this time, her submarine sank to the sea floor. Now Leah is changed. When she finally surfaces and returns home, her wife, Miri, knows something is wrong. Barely eating and lost in her […]
In Count the Ways: A Novel, bestselling author Joyce Maynard follows the arc of the lives of Eleanor and Cam. From their meeting at a crafts fair in Vermont in the early 1970s, to having three children and a family life of softball games in the summer, snow days by the fire, and small traditions […]
Para celebrar el centenario del escritor portugués José Saramago, la Feria del Libro de Miami organiza un homenaje al Premio Nobel de Literatura 1988 y autor de obras tan importantes como Memorial del convento, Todos los nombres y El hombre duplicado, al que han sido invitadas Pilar del Río, esposa y traductora de buena parte […]
Guillermo “Willie” Schavelzon, uno de los agentes literarios más importantes del mundo, quien fundó en 1998 la agencia literaria Schavelzon Graham con sede en Barcelona, y que representa a casi cien autores, presenta El enigma del oficio, libro en el que hace un recorrido por su larga carrera. Conversa con él la escritora, periodista y […]
The Last Human collects four extraordinary poetry books – Sea Change, Place, Fast, and Runaway – by Pulitzer Prize winner Jorie Graham, presenting a body of work that stands as a “lyric record” of the calamitous decades that began the 21st century. To read these four books in a single volume is to experience vastly complex […]
Make your own way through history! Readers will tackle seventy-one comic-creating challenges, with help from some of their favorite characters from the series! With each challenge, young cartoonists will learn new skills, from sound effects and character creation to building their own ten-page comic. This hardcore comics workbook will get kids writing their own thrilling, […]
In Swagger: Super Bowls, Brass Balls, and Footballs: A Memoir, Hall of Fame coach and TV analyst Jimmy Johnson offers a candid account of his life experiences. More than a highlight reel, Swagger reveals Johnson's lessons learned both as a man and as a coach – from the revelations following his mother's death to coaching […]