Described by the New York Times as “a remarkably revealing glimpse into the world of a muzzled yet irrepressibly ebullient neighbor,” Anthony DePalma’s The Cubans: Ordinary Lives in Extraordinary Times is carefully researched volume that delivers a moving portrait of the resiliency and courage of people in Cuba navigating a post-Castro reality. Joining him is his wife, Miriam Rodriguez […]
Alice Feeney’s His & Hers boasts dueling multiple narrators who reveal unexpected sides of the same story at the center of a murder case. With a brilliantly constructed plot that keeps readers guessing at every turn, it’s a deliciously tension-filled, twisting, and gripping narrative. She’s discussing her characters’ motivations and inner shadows – and the […]
In The Greenway Imperative: Connecting Communities and Landscapes for a Sustainable Future, Charles Flink argues that open green spaces are increasingly critical. They serve as essential infrastructure with many benefits, including boosting the economies of cities and towns. He has plenty to chat about with Meg Daly, founder and president of Friends of The Underline, […]
Join artist, educator, and curator Barry Fellman; Richard Florida, urbanist scholar and author of The Rise of the Creative Class; Alberto Ibargüen, president and CEO of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation; Miami Light Project writer-in-residence and arts journalist Jordan Levin, whose work has appeared in the New York Times and Miami Herald. […]
Grades 9 – 12 Kat Cho’s Gumiho #2: Vicious Spirits picks up right after the events of Wicked Fox – Jihoon is still grieving the loss of his grandmother, and Miyoung is distant as she grieves over her mother’s death and learns to live without her fox bead. The only one who seems ready to […]
Grades 9 – 12 Moderated by Ismery Pavon, program coordinator at Miami Book Fair. In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson explores their childhood, adolescence, and college years in New Jersey and Virginia. From the memories of getting their teeth kicked out by bullies at age 5, to […]
Grades 9 – 12 Moderated by Brittany King, Dream Defenders. From Traci Chee comes We Are Not Free, the collective account of a tight-knit group of young Nisei, second-generation Japanese American citizens, whose lives are irrevocably changed by the mass U.S. incarcerations of World War II. In Daniel Nayeri’s Everything Sad is Untrue: (a true […]
Grades PreK – 3 Introduced by Cierra Bragan, Miami Mom Collective. Author Isaac Fitzgerald and illustrator Brigette Barrager join forces for How to Be a Pirate. When the neighborhood boys tell CeCe that she can't be a pirate, she asks grandpa. He has the tattoos. As he shares the stories of his tattoos, Grandpa and […]
At a time in which many poems feel like sophisticated parlor games, Memory’s Blue Sedan by Jesse Millner brings us back to the ground, the soil of true poetry, in which living things grow and flourish in all their various complexities. His haunted and haunting poems are awesome in their commingling of autobiography, history, and […]
John Murillo’s second book, Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry, is a reflective look at the legacy of institutional, accepted violence against Blacks and Latinos, and the personal and societal wreckage wrought by long histories of subjugation. A sparrow trapped in a car window evokes a mother battered by a father’s fists; a workout at an iron gym […]
With a powerful and poignant introduction from Julia Alvarez, Resistencia: Poems of Protest and Revolution, edited by Mark Eisner and Tina Escaja, is an extraordinary collection, rooted in a strong tradition of protest poetry and voiced by icons of the movement and some of the most exciting writers today. The poets of Resistencia explore feminist, […]
Special introduction by Daniel Halpern, founder of HarperCollins imprint Ecco and the National Poetry Series. 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 […]