Esta presentación en persona también será transmitida en MiamiBookFair.com. En una charla profunda y amena la reconocida la escritora y guionista cubana Wendy Guerra conversa con el periodista José Manuel Rodríguez acerca de cómo un diario íntimo puede convertirse en novela, y de qué forma esas novelas narran y asientan el tiempo de la autora […]
Alan Moore is widely regarded as the best and most influential writer in the history of comics. Illuminations: Stories is his first short story collection and spans 40 years of his work. In "A Hypothetical Lizard," two concubines in a brothel of fantastical specialists fall in love with tragic ramifications. In "Not Even Legend," a […]
In Fire Island: A Century in the Life of an American Paradise, poet and scholar Jack Parlett tells the story of this iconic destination – its history, meaning, and cultural significance – through the lens of the artists and creators who sought refuge there. Figures as divergent as Walt Whitman, Oscar Wilde, James Baldwin, Patricia […]
In Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch: A Novel, Rivka Galchen tells the story of Katharina Kepler, an illiterate widow living in a small town in the German duchy of Württemberg in 1618 who is accused of being a witch. And as the tale of a community becoming implicated in collective aggression and hysterical […]
In A Silent Fire: The Story of Inflammation, Diet, and Disease, writer and gastroenterologist Shilpa Ravella investigates hidden inflammation’s emerging role as a common root of modern disease – and how we can prevent, treat, or even reverse it. Using fascinating case studies, Ravella reveals how we can reform our relationships with food and our […]
Robert Harris’ Act of Oblivion: A Novel, his first historical novel set predominantly in America, follows General Edward Whalley and his son-in-law, Colonel William Goffe, part of the group who murdered King Charles I. Richard Nayler, secretary of the regicide committee, is charged with bringing these traitors to justice – and he’ll stop at nothing […]
In Hell Followed with Us by Andrew Joseph White, 16-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cult that raised him – the fundamentalist sect that unleashed Armageddon and decimated the world’s population. Desperately, he searches for a place where the cult can’t get their hands on him, or more importantly, on the […]
In Eric Gansworth’s newest novel, My Good Man, Brian, a 20-something reporter on the Niagara Cascade’s City Desk, is navigating life as the only Indigenous writer in the newsroom, and being lumped into reporting on stereotypical stories that homogenize his community, the nearby Tuscarora reservation. But when a mysterious roadside assault lands Tim, the brother […]
Before Mr. Lemoncello became everyone’s favorite game maker, he was a kid who liked to roll the dice … Luigi has a knack for games and puzzles. But sometimes it feels like the cards are stacked against him. UNTIL a carnival arrives in town and Luigi gets the CHANCE OF A LIFETIME – the opportunity […]
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 […]
Woman Without Shame: Poems by Sandra Cisneros is a moving collection of songs, elegies, and declarations that chronicle her pilgrimage toward rebirth and the recognition of her prerogative as a woman artist. Three-term U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo selected her best poems for Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years, beginning […]
Spanning continents and generations, Melissa Fu’s Peach Blossom Spring: A Novel offers a bold look at the history of modern China, told through the story of one family. An American daughter wants to understand her heritage; her Chinese father refuses to talk about his childhood. But how can Lily learn who she is if she […]