For the first time in human memory, early death is now the exception rather than the rule. Perri Klass’ A Good Time to Be Born: How Science and Public Health Gave Children a Future celebrates the doctors, nurses, public health advocates, and scientists who brought new approaches and scientific ideas that made it happen. She’s […]
Special introduction by Natalie Satakovski, 2020 Gulf Stream Literary Magazine editor-in-chief. Gulf Stream Literary Magazine champions vibrant and eclectic literature and art. Based in Miami, it publishes emerging and established writers from the USA and beyond. Join contributors Melissa Goode, whose work has also appeared in SmokeLong Quarterly and Best Australian Short Stories; Sara McNally, […]
Live Q&A on Tuesday, November 17 at 9 p.m. The Baddest Bitch in the Room is Sophia Chang's memoir of her career in the music business, working with such acts as Wu-Tang Clan and A Tribe Called Quest, but also her candid accounts of marriage, motherhood, aging, marginalization, and martial arts. Fearless and unpredictable, Sophia Chang prevailed in […]
Event starts Tuesday, November 17 @ 8:30 p.m. EST Finalistas de Cuentomanía 2020 Gloria Noriega, Pedro Medina León, José Ignacio Chascas Valenzuela y Gastón Virkel presentan a los finalistas de la edición 2020. Finalistas de Cuentomanía 2020, con Pedro Galván, Javier Lentino, Daniel Reschigna y Diana Rodríguez Gloria Noriega, fundadora/productora ejecutiva, Pedro Medina León, fundador/productor […]
In Farmer, Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History, Dr. Paul Farmer shares his firsthand experience with the worst Ebola outbreak ever experienced, a substantive account of a frightening, fast-moving episode and its implications. He’s speaking with fellow physician-writer Daniela Lamas, author of You Can Stop Humming Now: A Doctor's Stories of […]
Grades 9 – 12 Moderated by Aurora Dominguez, YA book reviewer at Frolic Media. In Cinderella Is Dead, Kalynn Bayron takes us 200 years past the day that Cinderella found her prince, but the fairy tale is over, and we learn that there's more to Cinderella's story than we ever knew. Filled with mystery and […]
Grades 9 – 12 Moderated by Meagan Albright, Nova Southeastern University Library. In Renée Ahdieh’s The Beautiful #2: The Damned, Sébastien Saint Germain is now cursed and forever changed. The treaty between the Fallen and the Brotherhood has been broken, and war between the immortals seems imminent. And just as Bastien and Celine begin to […]
Grades 3 – 7 Moderated by Ellen Book, children’s librarian at Miami-Dade Public Library System. Inspired by real figures in American history, Katherine Factor and Kyandreia Jones present two new books in the interactive Choose Your Own Adventure: Spies gamebook series, putting you in the shoes of Civil War heroine Mary Bowser (Jones), or America’s […]
Grades 3 – 7 Moderated by Jennifer Jhon, editor of South Florida Family Life Magazine. Lev Grossman on The Silver Arrow, Kate and her younger brother Tom lead dull, uninteresting lives. And if their dull, uninteresting parents are anything to go by, they don’t have much to look forward to. Why can’t Kate have thrilling adventures and […]
The Burning Where Breath Used to Be by Jen Karetnick is an all-consuming trek through a distinct sensibility – nothing escapes its notice, and nothing fails to be fuel for her fires. These poems witness, converse, debate, and reckon with the world in daring, inventive, and prescient ways. Sponsored by
Titled for the influential singer left almost voiceless by a terrible syndrome, the poems in Kazim Ali’s The Voice of Sheila Chandra bring sweet melodies and rhythms as the voices blend and become multitudinous. There’s an honoring of not only survival, but of persistence, as this part research-based, pensive collection contemplates what it takes to […]
Homie: Poems is Danez Smith’s magnificent anthem about the saving grace of friendship. Rooted in the loss of one of Smith’s close friends, this book comes out of the search for joy and intimacy within a nation where both can seem scarce and getting scarcer. In poems of rare power and generosity, Smith acknowledges that […]