Stories We Share: A Nu Reads Celebration

In collaboration with the Jewish Book Council’s Nu Reads, Miami Book Fair presents Stories We Share: A Nu Reads Celebration. This inaugural event in our new Jewish literary series, Stories We Share: A Celebration of Jewish Voices, will spotlight Nu Reads, a bi-monthly subscription box curated by the Jewish Book Council that delivers exceptional Jewish literature straight to your door. Join us for an evening of storytelling, community, and shared Jewish joy. The program will begin with a panel discussion, followed by a reception with music, mingling, and refreshments. Books will be available for purchase from Books & Books, and Nu Reads book boxes will also be available for sale.

Participating Authors

• MAYA ARAD is the author of twelve books of Hebrew fiction, as well as studies in literary criticism and linguistics. Born in Israel in 1971, she received a PhD in linguistics from University College London and for the past twenty years has lived in California where she is writer in residence at Stanford University’s Taube Center for Jewish Studies.

• ALLEGRA GOODMAN is the author of seven novels, including the national bestseller Isola, which was a Reese’s Book Club pick, and Sam, which was a Read with Jenna selection; two short story collections; and a novel for young readers. Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker and elsewhere, and has been anthologized in The O. Henry Awards and Best American Short Stories. She lives with her family in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Goodman’s latest novel This Is Not About Us was chosen as the third official Nu Reads book selection.

• RACHEL KADISH is an award-winning fiction writer and essayist. Her work has been read on National Public Radio and has appeared in The New York Times, Paris Review, and Ploughshares; her most recent novel, The Weight of Ink, was a U.S.A. Today bestseller and recipient of a National Jewish Book Award. She teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the Jewish Theological Seminary and in Harvard University’s Division of Continuing Education. Kadish currently serves on the board of Jewish Book Council.

• TOVA MIRVIS is the nationally bestselling author of four novels, We Would Never, Visible City, The Outside World and The Ladies Auxiliary. Her memoir The Book of Separation was a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice and excerpted in the New York Times Modern Love Column. Her essays have appeared in publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe Magazine and Real Simple, and her fiction has been broadcast on NPR. Mirvis is currently the Nu Reads writer-in-residence.

• STACEY MINDICH (Moderator)