Upcoming Events

Books & Books and Miami Book Fair are thrilled to host Chuck Palahniuk, known for his thought-provoking and unconventional storytelling. Join us as we celebrate the release of his latest book! Chuck will be discussing Not Forever, But for Now (Simon & Schuster, $26.99). A hilarious horror satire about a family of professional killers responsible for the most atrocious events in history and the young brothers that are destined to take over. Please note: This event is at Miami Dade College Wolfson Campus,…

La Feria del Libro de Miami continúa su serie Inditoriales Hispanoamericanas, esta vez con el panorama de la edición independiente en Israel con la editorial El Ático. La editora Elizeth Schluk conversará con los autores Virginia Sandro, Iñaki Biggi, Fabián Broitman, Ariel Cababié, Pablo Feldman, Celsa Burgueño, Noel Santiesteban, José Luis Imán, Noa Drezner. ____________ ELIZETH SCHLUK Nació el 24 de septiembre en Durazno, Uruguay. Novelista, editora, hispanista. Su primer libro, Otra vida, fue premiado en Israel y se la reconoció como sobresaliente por el comité de evaluación de artistas inmigrantes.…

This class is sold out. If you would like to be added to the waitlist, please email Alannys Milano at amilano@mdc.edu. September 30, 2023, 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. EST (3 hours) Virtual via Zoom (link provided after registering) Registration $65 It’s entirely possible to write factually about complex family history and ancestral harms while making space for creativity. Come explore ways of integrating empiricism, feeling, and imagination. Bring a pen, notebook, and index cards.…

Saturdays, September 23 — November 4, 2023, from 3:00 p.m.—4:00 p.m. EST Join us online for Speak Up, a teen creative writing program supporting the artistic and professional growth of teens. In this FREE virtual creative writing workshop mini-series, teens will partner with experienced teaching artists to empower the creative writing process, from drafting to performance to publishing, to boost literacy and empower youth in Miami through community-based writing activities. The program is open to all teens (ages 13-19) and is as free of charge as it is free of homework.…

Mauricio Macri presenta, “Para qué. Aprendizajes sobre liderazgo y poder para ganar el segundo tiempo” “Uno nunca sabe en qué momento va a encontrar su verdadera vocación. Pero si hay algo que aprendí es a no aceptar lo dado y estar siempre abierto. Es como el amor, se trata de una vibración que sólo se siente en el corazón. No hay que resignarse a vivir sin amor o a no encontrar la vocación. Están allí, esperándonos en algún lugar.…

Tuesdays, October 3, 10, 17, 24 (4 weeks)  7:00 – 9:00 p.m. EST (2 hours) In Person, MDC Wolfson Campus In this four-week workshop, we will look at how image and detail can be used to deepen meaning in creative nonfiction. The first session will focus on generating topics from image and detail. The remaining sessions will cover how image and detail can be used to strengthen dialogue, descriptions of setting and place, and characterization.…

La Feria del Libro de Miami del Miami Dade College, el Consulado de la República Argentina en Miami, el Consulado General de Ecuador en Miami y la Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española invitan al filme “MEDARDO”. Un filme sobre la vida del poeta ecuatoriano MEDARDO dirigido por Nitsy Grau, basado en hechos reales y filmado en Guayaquil. Producida y actuada por JULIO ORTEGA y la actriz venezolana LUPITA FERRER. Contará con la presencia de la Cónsul de Ecuador María Josefa Coronel,…

Saturdays, September 23 — November 4, 2023, from 3:00 p.m.—4:00 p.m. EST Join us online for Speak Up, a teen creative writing program supporting the artistic and professional growth of teens. In this FREE virtual creative writing workshop mini-series, teens will partner with experienced teaching artists to empower the creative writing process, from drafting to performance to publishing, to boost literacy and empower youth in Miami through community-based writing activities. The program is open to all teens (ages 13-19) and is as free of charge as it is free of homework.…

La Feria del Libro de Miami del Miami Dade College, el Consulado de la República Argentina en Miami, el Instituto Cultural de México y la Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española invitan al HOMENAJE A JUAN RULFO. Conversación entre la Directora del Instituto Cultural de México, ministra y artista plástica ADRIANA TORRES SÁNCHEZ y la actriz y periodista ADRIANA BIANCO, quienes comentarán sobre la vida y obra del escritor mexicano JUAN RULFO.   Adriana Bianco (Argentina). Actriz, escritora y periodista que reside en Miami.…

Community, craft, and rapid-fire creativity meet at our First Draft workshop series, monthly virtual salons where writers get social, share their work, and leave with great stories. Instructor: Talia Lakshmi Kolluri Theme: The Magic of the Natural World Talia Lakshmi Kolluri is a mixed South Asian American writer from Northern California. Her debut collection of short stories, WHAT WE FED TO THE MANTICORE (Tin House 2022), is a finalist for the 2023 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction and was longlisted for the 2023 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction,…

Saturdays, September 23 — November 4, 2023, from 3:00 p.m.—4:00 p.m. EST Join us online for Speak Up, a teen creative writing program supporting the artistic and professional growth of teens. In this FREE virtual creative writing workshop mini-series, teens will partner with experienced teaching artists to empower the creative writing process, from drafting to performance to publishing, to boost literacy and empower youth in Miami through community-based writing activities. The program is open to all teens (ages 13-19) and is as free of charge as it is free of homework.…

Sed / Suburbano Ediciones y Kathy Serrano presentan “Húmedos, sucios y violentos”. Los microcuentos de Húmedos, sucios y violentos […] son como un puño a la cara. Primero, la sacudida; luego, el desconcierto, la ofuscación; y al final, más tarde, cuando las emociones se han asentado, el moretón. (Pilar Quintana). Kathy Serrano, escritora, actriz, directora de teatro peruano-venezolana. Máster en Artes por el Instituto Estatal Ruso de Artes Escénicas de San Petersburgo. Sus cuentos y microrrelatos han aparecido en diversas revistas y antologías nacionales e internacionales.…

Saturdays, September 23 — November 4, 2023, from 3:00 p.m.—4:00 p.m. EST Join us online for Speak Up, a teen creative writing program supporting the artistic and professional growth of teens. In this FREE virtual creative writing workshop mini-series, teens will partner with experienced teaching artists to empower the creative writing process, from drafting to performance to publishing, to boost literacy and empower youth in Miami through community-based writing activities. The program is open to all teens (ages 13-19) and is as free of charge as it is free of homework.…

SEd / Suburbano Ediciones y Ricardo Sumalavia presentan “Historia de un brazo”, “Una novela ‘rara’ sobre el duelo, la paternidad y el sexo, con un héroe improbable: un tercer brazo con vida y mente propias que se convierte en el protagonista de una trama asombrosa”. (Luis Hernán Castañeda). Ricardo Sumalavia (Lima, 1968). Doctor en Letras por la Universidad de Burdeos. Vivió en Corea del Sur y Francia. Actualmente es profesor y director del Centro de Estudios Orientales de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.…

Saturdays, September 23 — November 4, 2023, from 3:00 p.m.—4:00 p.m. EST Join us online for Speak Up, a teen creative writing program supporting the artistic and professional growth of teens. In this FREE virtual creative writing workshop mini-series, teens will partner with experienced teaching artists to empower the creative writing process, from drafting to performance to publishing, to boost literacy and empower youth in Miami through community-based writing activities. The program is open to all teens (ages 13-19) and is as free of charge as it is free of homework.…

Books & Books, Miami Book Fair, and Sacred Space present AN EVENING WITH YUNG PUEBLO We are so thrilled to announce that Yung Pueblo will join us for an in-person discussion in celebration of the release of The Way Forward (Andrews McMeel Publishing, $16.99). In this third and final installment of his poetic trilogy, Yung Pueblo expands upon favorite themes while guiding readers further, toward a life lived authentically, intuitively, and in harmony with others.…

Saturdays, September 23 — November 4, 2023, from 3:00 p.m.—4:00 p.m. EST Join us online for Speak Up, a teen creative writing program supporting the artistic and professional growth of teens. In this FREE virtual creative writing workshop mini-series, teens will partner with experienced teaching artists to empower the creative writing process, from drafting to performance to publishing, to boost literacy and empower youth in Miami through community-based writing activities. The program is open to all teens (ages 13-19) and is as free of charge as it is free of homework.…

In Thicker than Water, Kerry Washington provides an intimate view into her public and private worlds – as an artist, advocate, entrepreneur, mother, daughter, wife, and Black woman. Chronicling her upbringing and life’s journey thus far, she reveals how she faced a series of challenges and setbacks, effectively hid childhood traumas, met extraordinary mentors, managed to grow her career, and crossed the threshold into stardom and political advocacy, ultimately discovering her truest self and, with it, a deeper sense of belonging.…

Jada Pinkett Smith revisits lessons learned in the course of a difficult but riveting life journey in Worthy, a bracingly honest memoir that takes readers on a rollercoaster ride from the depths of suicidal depression to the heights of personal rediscovery and authentic feminine power. With no holds barred, Pinkett Smith reveals her unconventional upbringing in Baltimore – as the child of two addicts to a promising theater student and a violent interlude as a petty drug-dealer – followed by a parallel rise to stardom alongside her close friend,…

From legendary singer and social justice activist Joan Baez comes an album of drawings that feel like a long, funny letter from an old friend. Since retiring from active performing, Baez has focused her formidable talents on painting and drawing, and this collection of her work – lovingly loose and charming sketches on recurring themes such as politics, relationships, women, animals, and family – shows another, insightful side of her. Each section, organized thematically, includes an introductory piece by the artist.…

As David Brooks observes, “There is one skill that lies at the heart of any healthy person, family, school, community organization, or society: the ability to see someone else deeply and make them feel seen – to accurately know another person, to let them feel valued, heard, and understood.” And yet we don’t always do this well. All around us, people feel invisible, unseen, misunderstood. In How to Know a Person, Brooks sets out to help us do better,…

New York Times bestselling author Abraham Verghese is back with his long-awaited new book, The Covenant of Water: A Novel. Spanning the years between 1900 and 1977 and set in Kerala on South India’s Malabar Coast, the story follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning – and in Kerala, water is everywhere. Against this backdrop of foreboding is a 12-year-old girl, grieving her father and on her way to her wedding by boat,…

Intergalactic visions, deadly threats, and explosive standoffs between mostly good and completely evil converge in Walter Mosley’s dystopian fantasy Touched. Martin Just wakes up one morning after what feels like – and might actually be – a centuries-long sleep, with two innate pieces of knowledge: Humanity is a virus destined to destroy all existence and he is the cure. Just begins slipping into an alternate consciousness and discovering new physical strengths, strengths he’ll need to violently defend himself,…