The Writer’s Voice: Tom Franklin on Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter, and Nelson George on The Plot Against Hip Hop
Sunday, Nov. 20, 1:30 p.m., Auditorium (Building 1, 2nd Floor, Room 1261)
Author(s) and Guest(s)
Tom Franklin
Tom Franklin's literary mystery, Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter (Harper, $14.99), is set in small-town Mississippi, where two boys from utterly different backgrounds share a dark secret. Twenty years later, a missing youg girl forces both men to face a past they'd rather forget. Franklin is the author of Poachers: Stories, Hell at the Breech, and Smonk.
Bradford Morrow
In Bradford Morrow's novel, The Diviner's Tale (Harcourt/Houghton Mifflin, $26.00), Cassandra Brooks comes upon the shocking vision of a young girl hanged from a tree. When she returns with authorities to the site, the body has vanished, leaving in question Cassandra’s credibility, if not her sanity. Soon she is locked in a mortal chess match with a real-life killer who has haunted her since before she can remember. Morrow's awards include an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim Fellowship, O. Henry and Pushcart Prizes. Bradford Morrow's appearance is cancelled.
Nelson George
Nelson George's noir novel, The Plot Against Hip Hop (Akashic, $15.95), is set in the world of hip hop culture. When the stabbing murder of an esteemed music critic is dismissed by the NYPD as a gang initiation, bodyguard/security expert D Hunter suspects there's much more to his death. George is the author of Hip Hop America and The Death of Rhythnm & Blues.
Schedule
Location
Miami Book Fair International * Miami Dade College
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, FL 33132
Auditorium (Building 1, 2nd Floor, Room 1261)
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