Sandra Beasley on tales from an allergic life, Peter Selgin on his life as an artist, Mireya Mayor on her journey from NFL cheerleader to National Geographic explorer
Saturday, Nov. 19, 5:00 p.m., Room 3410 (Building 3, 4th Floor)
Author(s) and Guest(s)
Sandra Beasley
In Sandra Beasley's poetry collection, I Was the Jukebox (Norton, $14.95), animals, flowers and mythological creatures speak their minds in a series of tell-it-like-it-is soliloquies, illustrating a complex and imaginative landscape in which, according to the poet Marie Howe, “desire pushes defeat against a wall, and the spirit climbs up from underground.” Beasley is also the author of the memoir and cultural history, Don't Kill the Birthday Girl: Tales from an Allergic Life (Crown, $23.00). Like millions of other Americans, Beasly suffers from food allergies so severe, she dubbed herself "Allergy Girl." With candor, wit, and a journalist’s curiosity, Sandra draws on her own experiences while covering the scientific, cultural, and sociological terrain of allergies.
Peter Selgin
In his memoir, Confessions of a Left-Handed Man: An Artist's Memoir (University of Iowa Press, $19.95), Peter Selgin describes his formative years in Connecticut watching mental giants clash at Mensa gatherings, enduring Pavlovian training session with a grandmother bent on "curing" his left-handedness, and his non-linear path to an artistic life. Winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Fiction for his story collection Drowning Lessons, Selgin has also published a novel and two works on the fiction writer's craft.
Mireya Mayor
Pink Boots and a Machete: My Journey From NFL Cheerleader to National Geographic Explorer (National Geographic, $26.00) is Mireya Mayor's empowering autobiography detailing how she evolved from a "girly girl" daughter of overprotective Cuban immigrants and NFL cheerleader to Fulbright Scholar to field scientist and ultimately, quintessential adventurer. "Entertaining reading for the intrepid at heart," says Kirkus Reviews. Mayor is currently a host on Nat Geo WILD! channel with her own series “Wild Nights with Mireya Mayor.”
Schedule
Location
Miami Book Fair International * Miami Dade College
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, FL 33132
Room 3410 (Building 3, 4th Floor)
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