Slate Podcasts Live at Miami Book Fair: Mom and Dad Are Fighting

Adam Mansbach is the New York Times bestselling author of Go the Fuck to Sleep and You Have to Fucking Eat; the novel The End of Jews, a dozen other books, and the movie Barry. His work which has been translated into more than forty languages, has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, Esquire, and The Believer and on National Public Radio's All Things Considered and This American Life. Dave Barry and Alan Zweibel are his only friends, which explains why they banded together for the helpful A Field Guide to the Jewish People: Who They Are, Where They Come From, What to Feed Them…and Much More. Maybe Too Much More (Flatiron Books). The authors dissect every holiday, rite of passage, and tradition, unravel a long and complicated history, and tackle the tough questions that have plagued Jews and non-Jews alike for centuries. Fuck, Now There Are Two of You (Akashic Books) is a loving monologue about the new addition to the family, addressed to a big sibling and shot through with Adam's trademark profane truth-telling.

Dan Kois is an editor at Slate, founding host of the podcast Mom and Dad Are Fighting, and a contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine. He is the author of How to Be a Family: The Year I Dragged My Kids Around the World to Find a New Way to Be Together (Little, Brown and Company). In this "funny and honest" (Pamela Druckerman) memoir, Slate editor Dan Kois sets out with his family on a journey around the world to change their lives together. Dan Kois and his wife always did their best for their kids. Busy professionals living in the D.C. suburbs, they scheduled their children's time wisely, and when they weren't arguing over screen time, the Kois family-Dan, his wife Alia, and their two pre-teen daughters-could each be found searching for their own happiness. But aren't families supposed to achieve happiness together? In this eye-opening, heartwarming, and very funny family memoir, the fractious, loving Kois' go in search of other places on the map that might offer them the chance to live away from home-but closer together. Over a year the family lands in New Zealand, the Netherlands, Costa Rica, and small-town Kansas. The goal? To get out of their rut of busyness and distractedness and to see how other families live outside the East Coast parenting bubble. A journalistic memoir filled with heart, empathy, and lots of whining, How to Be a Family will make readers dream about the amazing adventures their own families might take.

Jamilah Lemieux is a renowned cultural critic and writer with a focus on issues of race, gender and sexuality. She formerly served as the Vice President of News and Men’s Programming for iOne Digital, where she helped spearhead the creation of CASSIUS, a progressive digital lifestyle platform, and as the Senior Editor for EBONY magazine, she played a key role in launching the publication’s website in 2012 and modernizing the brand voice and identity. In 2018, she launched The Lemieux Group, a consulting firm that provides communications, public relations and crisis management services. Lemieux’s written work has been featured via a host of print and digital platforms, including Essence,The Guardian, Colorlines, The Washington Post, The Columbia Journalism Review, The Nation and The New York Times. In 2018, she was prominently featured in Lifetime’s critically acclaimed docuseries, Surviving R. Kelly. She has appeared as a commentator on various news programs for CNN, ABC, CBS, BET, Buzzfeed, MTV2, and MSNBC, as well as Comedy Central's The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore and The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, Vice’s Desus and Mero, TMZ and The Breakfast Club.

Pamela Paul is the editor of The New York Times Book Review and oversees books coverage at The New York Times, which she joined in 2011 as the children's books editor. She is also author and editor of five books. Paul and Maria Russo’s How to Raise a Reader (Workman Publishing Company) combines clear, practical advice with inspiration, wisdom, tips, and curated reading lists to show how to instill the joy and time-stopping pleasure of reading. The book is divided into four sections, from baby (Even newborns benefit from the experience of hearing stories) through teen,  each illustrated by a different artist, and offers something useful on every page, whether it’s how to develop rituals around reading, build a family library, or ways to engage a reluctant reader. A fifth section, “More Books to Love: By Theme and Reading Level,” is full of expert recommendations. Throughout, the authors debunk common myths, assuage parental fears, and deliver invaluable lessons in a positive and easy-to-act-on way.