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Havana and Haiti: Two Cultures, One Community

Sunday, November 15, 2015 @ 12:00 pm - Sunday, November 22, 2015 @ 1:30 pm EST

Sponsored by the Green Family Foundation. Carl Juste’s compelling and dynamic images from Haiti and Cuba take over the walls at The Swamp!  A Haitian-born American who grew up in Miami, and whose mother was born and spent her childhood in Santiago de Cuba, Juste uses his unique perspective to aim his lens at the space where the metaphorical borders ...

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12:00 pm
Free

DJ Lolo, Bookleggers and games on The Porch!

Tuesday, November 17, 2015 @ 12:00 pm EST

Scene-maker and SWEAT Records owner, DJ Lolo, sets the groove for a dance party on The Porch, as Bookleggers set up their mobile library/exchange. Your first book is free, exchange a book for another, or buy extras for just $2!   

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1:00 pm

An Evening With Alexandra Fuller (cancelled)

Tuesday, November 17, 2015 @ 1:00 pm EST

Due to personal reasons, Alexandra Fuller has had to cancel her appearance at Miami Book Fair. Please check back for more details. Alexandra Fuller has written five books of non-fiction, including her widely praised and award-winning debut, Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood. Fuller has also written extensively for magazines and newspapers including the New Yorker ...

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2:00 pm
Free

El arte y los libros: Luis G. Fresquet, Sergio Castiglione y Gisela Savdie

Tuesday, November 17, 2015 @ 2:00 pm EST

Art makes its way to the Book Fair through caricature and photography. Luis García Fresquet, el reconocido diseñador gráfico, ilustrador y caricaturista cubano, es el talento tras la leyenda de Yo, tú, él y el humor y Don Ufano: un humor situado en la galaxia. Sergio Castiglione, arquitecto argentino y galardonado fotógrafo, nos invita a descubrir su libro Espejos urbanos ...

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World’s Smallest Poetry Reading: An O, Miami Party

Tuesday, November 17, 2015 @ 2:00 pm EST

In celebration of Eight Miami Poets, a new volume of young and emerging poets in Miami-Dade County published by Jai-Alai Books, O, Miami is aiming small – Guinness-World-Record-for-Smallest-Poetry-Readings small. Each poet in the book will read their poems one at a time to one person at a time from inside specially made booths. Wait your turn with drink specials and ...

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3:00 pm

An Evening With Jeanette Winterson

Tuesday, November 17, 2015 @ 3:00 pm EST

Jeanette Winterson is one of the most admired and discussed British novelists of her generation. Beginning with her first book, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, a semi-autobiographical novel about a sensitive teenage girl rebelling against conventional values, Winterson has explored the boundaries of physicality and the imagination, gender polarities, and sexual identities. In her latest novel, The Gap of ...

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Novela corta cubana a vuelo de pájaro con Jorge Enrique Lage

Tuesday, November 17, 2015 @ 3:00 pm EST

The Cuban novella from a new perspective. Presentación de la antología La zona & la mezcla: Nueve novelistas cubanos, preparada por el escritor cubano Jorge Enrique Lage, editor de la revista El cuentero y de la editorial Caja China, y autor de Carbono 14, una novela de culto, y La autopista, the movie. Presentado por Ladislao Aguado.

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