Author MADELINE MILLER will deliver the 2024 NEA Big Read Miami keynote address, followed by a conversation with author and illustrator GEORGE O’CONNOR on the themes found in the book, including the retelling of myths and the persistence of thousand-year old tales. Miller has been a force in bringing mythology to the masses with her bestselling novels Song of […]
La Feria del Libro de Miami del Miami Dade College, el Consulado de la República Argentina en Miami, el Instituto Cultural de México y la Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española invitan al HOMENAJE A OCTAVIO PAZ. Conversación entre la Directora del Instituto Cultural de México, ministra y artista plástica ADRIANA TORRES SÁNCHEZ y la […]
Karime Bourzac, fundadora de Ediciones Furtivas, promotora cultural, y traductora; Jorge Luis Arcos, poeta y ensayista; y Alejandro Querejeta Barceló, periodista, escritor y profesor universitario se dan cita en una conversación en torno a Cuaderno de rimas, de Manuel Díaz Martínez, editado por Ediciones Furtivas este año 2023. La charla es un homenaje al autor, quien […]
Months into his new job at The Washington Post, journalist MARTIN BARON received news that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos would buy the paper. Two years later, Donald Trump won the presidency. Collision of Power: Trump, Bezos and The Washington Post explores the nature of tech, media, and power in the 21st century. Moderating is MATT […]
In Muppets in Moscow: The Unexpected Crazy True Story of Making Sesame Street in Russia, NATASHA LANCE ROGOFF shares how a dedicated Moscow team brought Sesame Street to Russian children after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Despite many odds, Lance Rogoff and her team remained determined to bring laughter and learning to children across […]
MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM’s Day: A Novel tracks the lives of a Brooklyn, New York, family as they endure the pandemic lockdown and their veneer of domestic bliss begins to crack. In ANDRE DUBUS III’s Such Kindness: A Novel, Tom Lowe has invested his identity in his work with his back and hands – until he injures […]
Weaving together stories of average traders and victims, colorful crypto “visionaries,” Hollywood’s biggest true believers, anti-crypto whistleblowers, and government operatives, BEN MCKENZIE’s Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud is an on-the-ground look at a perfect storm of irresponsibility and criminal fraud. In The End of Reality: How Four Billionaires are […]
Join us for a special conversation with Miami-Dade County Poet Laureate RICHARD BLANCO and his friend, mentor, and MacArthur “Genius” Fellow CAMPBELL MCGRATH. In Homeland of My Body: New & Selected Poems, Blanco has collected more than 100 poems from his previous books that represent his evolution as a writer grappling with identity, love, the […]
PABLO BRESCIA’s Diego Maradona: A Socio-Cultural Study tells the story of one of the greatest soccer players in history, who also became a culturally constructed political figurehead. In Charlie Chaplin vs. America: When Art, Sex, and Politics Collided, SCOTT EYMAN offers an insightful portrait of a genius and his fall from grace in an America […]
ASKOLD MELNYCZUK, novelist, short story writer, and co-editor of From Three Worlds, an anthology of Ukrainian writers, presents a panel on the war in Ukraine with guests HÉCTOR ABAD FACIOLINCE, Salvo mi corazón, todo está bien; CAROLYN FORCHÉ, What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance; CHRISTOPHER MERRILL, On the Road […]
In Optical Illusions: The False Promise of Optimization, COCO KRUMME explores how optimization has taken over the world – and the urgent case for a new approach. In Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech, BRIAN MERCHANT discusses how automation changed our world and how it’s shaping our future. Moderated […]
In The Bill of Obligations: The Ten Habits of Good Citizens, DR. RICHARD HAASS offers a provocative guide to reenvisioning citizenship if American democracy is to survive. The United States faces dangerous threats from Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, terrorists, climate change, and future pandemics, but, writes Haass, the greatest danger comes not from abroad […]