Ross Gay’s Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude—Finalist for the 2015 National Book Award in Poetry—is a sustained meditation on that which goes away-- loved ones, the seasons, the earth as we know it -- that tries to find solace in the processes of the garden and the orchard. Robin Coste Lewis’s Voyage of the Sable Venus—Finalist for the 2015 National Book ...

Seven-time James Beard Award–winning author Madhur Jaffrey shares the delectable, healthful, vegetable- and grain-based foods enjoyed around the Indian subcontinent, in Vegetarian India: A Journey Through the Best of Indian Home Cooking. In conversation with chef Ayesha D’Mello.

Sixty-five of the world’s leading writers open up in By the Book: Writers on Literature and the Literary Life by Pamela Paul, editor of the New York Times Book Review.  This year, Paul returns to the Fair for “By the Book, Live @ MBF,” a panel of distinguished authors who’ll join Paul to discuss all things literary: Sloane Crosley is a bestselling author ...

Unwind at the Street Fair and find inspiration while browsing through a selection of artist’s books and hand-picked art and literary magazines. For a detailed schedule of events taking place in the lounge, stop by the space or check out @exilebooks.

In Geek Heresy: Rescuing Social Change from the Cult of Technology, computer scientist Kentaro Toyama cures us of the manic rhetoric of digital utopians and reinvigorates us with a deeply people-centric view of social change. Martin Ford warns of a future in which good jobs might become obsolete, in Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless ...

Do you love your computer, but just can’t get enough of the distinct click of the typewriter? The digital age may have arrived, but the nostalgic desire for the typewriter remains strong. Come together with fellow typing enthusiasts on The Porch and bring your typewriter for a celebration of its beautiful machinery and what you create with it.  Join us ...

Miami Dade College Museum of Art + Design presents the second installment of its BAZAAR BAR, a one day market place showcasing and selling unique items crafted by a variety of local artists, designers, and makers. FREE and open to the public. For more information, email: museum@mdc.edu or contact the museum at 305.237.7760. Participating vendors: Archive of Adornment, hand-crafted jewelry ...

Journalist Brett Sokol and photographer Charles Hashim discuss We Are Everywhere And We Shall Be Free: Charles Hashim’s Miami 1977-1982, which collects previously unseen photos from the late 1970s and early 1980s, capturing “The Magic City” as its old social conventions came apart at the seams. Joining them is Miami Beach-based photographer and author, Andrew Kaufman, whose Arty Gras, a ...

My Rise 2 Fame: The Tell All Autobiography of a Hip Hop Legend is the explicit autobiography and untold story of Christopher “Fresh Kid Ice" Wong Won, the historic co-founder of hip hop's most infamous group 2 Live Crew. “Fresh Kid Ice" will be in conversation with co-author Jacob Katel.

Pulitzer Prize-winner, and the longest-jailed correspondent for protecting her sources, Judith Miller turns her reporting skills on herself with the intensity of her professional vocation, in The Story: A Reporter's Journey.

In Collaboration with Voices of Our Nation Arts Foundation (VONA) and the MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Miami Voices of Our Nation Arts Foundation (VONA), which now makes its home at the University of Miami, was formed with the mission of facilitating the emergence of writers of color by supporting individual writer growth, creating a platform for ...

Bob Morris’s memoir, Bobby Wonderful: An Imperfect Son Buries His Parents, recounts two poignant deaths and one family's struggle to find the silver lining in them. Homer Hickam’s novel, Carrying Albert Home is the funny, sweet, and sometimes tragic tale of a young couple and a special alligator on a crazy 1,000-mile adventure. Scott Simon’s memoir, Unforgettable: A Son, a ...

Adam Levin, a longtime consumer advocate and identity fraud expert, offers strategies for dealing with personal cyber-attacks in Swiped: How to Protect Yourself in a World Full of Scammers, Phishers, and Identity Thieves.

Graphic novelist and author Leanne Shapton (co-editor of Women in Clothes) and fashion curator and exhibition-maker Judith Clark (The Concise Dictionary of Dress) discuss the ways their books offer new perspectives and add to the current conversation on the meaning of exhibiting, wearing, and writing about clothes.

Just as the sound of the steel pan — fashioned in Trinidad and Tobago and the only musical instrument invented in the 21st century — has proliferated worldwide, so has the voice of Caribbean literature evolved in the last 100 years. Join this panel, led by prolific writer Michael Anthony and followed by the poetry and prose of other writers representing the ...

The closet has been sealed, but what strange creature snuck past the doorknob? It’s Lord of the Hat—a hybrid creature who's part Gollum, part Cat in the Hat!  Hang on for hilarious disasters, in Obert Skye's Lord of the Hat (Creature From My Closet).

Celebrity chef Doreen Colondres’s cookbook, La Cocina No Muerde (The Kitchen Doesn’t Bite) shares her secrets of how to stock your kitchen, how to shop wisely and bring home in-season ingredients, how to involve children in the process, and how to perfect techniques. In Lorena Garcia's New Taco Classics, one of America’s favorite chefs gives a healthy and exciting twist ...

As old worlds fall apart and new dangerous worlds emerge, a call to action is issued to the bravest survivors. It’s time for some heart-pounding sci-fi survival stories with Rick Yancey’s The Infinite Sea and Michael Buckley’s Undertow. Presented in partnership with:

Show what you know about endangered animals in the Geo-Party Quiz Show with National Geographic Kids! All performances on the Once Upon a Time Children's Stage are sponsored by

James Grippando's Cash Landing is set in Miami, where a band of amateur thieves pull off one of the biggest airport heists in history with deadly consequences. Paul Levine brings together all three of the heroes from his two South Florida-based, legal-thriller series — Lassiter, Solomon and Lord — in Bum Rap. Serge Storms, the Sunshine State’s favorite psychotic killer ...

Author of The Butler, Wil Haygood, details the life and career of one of the most transformative legal minds of the past one hundred years, in Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America. The 1906 rampage of black soldiers stationed in Brownsville, and President Roosevelt’s controversial response to it, is the subject of Harry Lembeck’s Taking ...

From the founders of the world’s largest visual and concrete poetry archive, Marvin and Ruth Sackner, comes The Art of Typewriting, a definitive overview of typewriter art. Richard Polt’s The Typewriter Revolution: A Typist's Companion for the 21st Century is the connoisseur's guide to the typewriter.

Shrinks: The Untold Story of Psychiatry tells the fascinating story of psychiatry's origins, demise, and redemption, by a former president of the American Psychiatric Association, Dr. Jeffrey A. Lieberman.        

The City of Miami Beach turned 100 years old this year, and long before Art Basel, South Beach’s cultural richness rooted the city in the world’s consciousness. Tom Austin, a 2015 South Florida Knight Arts Challenge finalist for “Beyond Basel: The zine History of South Beach,” moderates an irreverent multi-media panel presentation on contemporary South Beach. With Nathaniel Sandler, founder ...

In The Reproach of Hunger: Food, Justice, and Money in the Twenty-First Century, David Rieff answers the question: Can we provide enough food for 9 billion (2 billion more than today) in 2050?

In Jennifer Tseng’s novel, Mayumi and the Sea of Happiness, a disenchanted wife and librarian issues a library card to a shy seventeen-year-old boy and swiftly succumbs to a sexual obsession that subverts the way she views her life. In Thrity Umrigar’s latest novel, The Story Hour, an experienced psychologist carefully maintains emotional distance from her patients, but when she ...

From punk-rock innovators, the inspirational Helen Keller, and game changer Isadora Duncan, meet incredible history makers, in Brad Meltzer’s I Am Helen Keller, Kate Schatz’s Rad American Women A-Z, and Eric Morse’s What is Punk?

Jam-out with Guitars Over Guns. All performances on the Once Upon a Time Children's Stage are sponsored by

Rosemary Parkinson brings the fragrant, vibrant flavors of the Caribbean to Miami with Barbados Bu’n Bu’n. This cooking demonstration includes a tasting and is ticketed. Seating is limited. Books will be available for sale and to be signed by the authors. Tickets for this event are no longer available online. Please visit the ticket booth at the venue for more ...

In the inaugural edition of Freeman's, the new biannual of unpublished writing, former Granta editor and National Book Critics Circle President John Freeman brings together the best new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry about that electrifying moment when we arrive. Join John Freeman and contributors Aleksandar Hemon, Garnette Cadogan, and Honor Moore for a discussion of the “arrival” of an essential map to ...

Heroes confront gods; ancient wonders are unearthed; gods battle their immortal peers; and battles rage amongst men, demigods and gods alike, in John Rocco’s Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes; George O’Connor’s Ares: Bringer of War; and Peter Lerangis’ Seven Wonders Book 4: The Curse of the King. Presented in partnership with:

From renowned actress and poet, Amber Tamblyn, Dark Sparkler is a book of poems that explores the lives of more than twenty-five actresses lost before their time. In Hustle, the speaker of David Tomas Martinez’s poems steals cars, runs away, sits in understudy at the bar, fathers a child before seventeen, and works welding frigates. Jonathan Moody’s second book, Olympic ...

In The Time of Our Lives: Collected Writings, Peggy Noonan, one of the most brilliant and influential political thinkers and writers of our time presents her best writing, collected in one indispensable volume. Tickets for this event are no longer available online. Please visit the ticket booth at the venue for more information on availability of tickets. Free tickets will be required ...

By embarking on a quest to dunk a basketball at the age of 34, journalist Asher Price investigates the limits of human potential — starting with his own — in the memoir, Year of the Dunk: A Modest Defiance of Gravity. William Finnegan’s memoir Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life is deeply rendered self-portrait of a lifelong surfer by the acclaimed ...

Underground and Zippy the Pinhead cartoonist Bill Griffith uncovers his mother’s hidden past in his first graphic memoir, Invisible Ink: My Mother's Love Affair With A Famous Cartoonist.

Matthew Gavin Frank takes readers on a richly illustrated culinary tour of the United States through fifty signature dishes, and a radical exploration of our gastronomic heritage in The Mad Feast: An Ecstatic Tour Through America's Food. My Organic Life: How A Pioneering Chef Helped Shape the Way We Eat Today is the story of an unheralded culinary pioneer, Nora ...

Former Jerusalem bureau chief for Newsweek and the Daily Beast, Dan Ephron, analyzes the single most consequential event in Israel’s recent history, in Killing a King: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Remaking of Israel. Rita Gabis comes to terms with an unthinkable revelation about her family story, in A Guest at the Shooter's Banquet: My Grandfather's SS Past, ...

Sponsored by the Green Family Foundation. After more than two centuries of political strife, successive coups d’état, authoritarian governments, international interventions, and natural disasters, President Duvalier’s pronouncement that “It is the destiny of the people of Haiti to suffer," seems valid. Moderator Hector Duarte Jr. and Haitian authors M.J. Fievre, Fabienne Josaphat, and Katia D. Ulysse will discuss Haiti’s recent ...

Paul Holdengräber, director of the New York Public Library’s conversation series "Live from the NYPL," interviews poet, novelist, essayist, and critic Ben Lerner.

Justin Taylor's Flings: Stories is a piercing collection of short fiction that illuminates our struggle to find love, comfort, and identity. New Yorker cartoonist Marisa Acocella Marchetto’s graphic novel, Ann Tenna, is a wildly imaginative story of an influential gossip columnist brought face-to-face with her higher self. 

Story Pirates turn your ideas into hilarious and unexpected performances. All performances on the Once Upon a Time Children's Stage are sponsored by

In Christopher Yates’s debut novel, Black Chalk, a group of six friends at Oxford University begin to play an elaborate variant of Truth or Dare which devolves into a vicious struggle, with tragic results. In Nina Revoyr’s novel, Lost Canyon, four backpackers embark on a trip in the Sierra Nevada that quickly becomes a disaster. Maggie Mitchell’s Pretty Is: A ...

Alan Jackowitz’s No, I'm Not Drunk!: Taming My Parkinson's With Humor, Music and Charity is the memoir of a man who takes his Parkinson’s diagnosis in stride (albeit shuffly), and discovers he is able to make a difference in the world. The Forgotten Child, Anne Ford’s fourth book concerning children with learning disabilities, addresses the sensitivities of non-learning disabled siblings.

Celebrity in Chief: A History of the Presidents and the Culture of Stardom, from White House correspondent and presidential historian Kenneth T. Walsh, takes a detailed and comprehensive look at the history of America’s presidents as “celebrities in chief” since the beginning of the Republic. Peter Slevin tells the inspiring story of a modern American icon in Michele Obama: A ...

Acclaimed novelist and screenwriter Richard Price discusses his life and work with novelist, critic and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Lorraine Adams. Price is the author of eight novels, including Clockers, Freedomland, and Samaritan. He won a 2007 Edgar Award for his writing on the HBO series The Wire, and under the pen name Harry Brandt is the author of The Whites: A Novel, an ...

Dance and groove to Latin Grammy Award-winners Lucky Diaz and the Family Jam Band! All performances on the Once Upon a Time Children's Stage are sponsored by

From co-founder Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s first book to the new poetry collection of the 2015-16 U.S. Poet Laureate, Juan Felipe Herrera, City Lights has earned its reputation for publishing cutting-edge fiction, poetry, memoirs, literary translations and books on vital social and political issues. Now sixty years old, City Lights is considered one of America’s major alternative presses. Join in this celebration ...

Since the days of Alex Haley's transformative series Roots, there has been an intense interest among African-American and African-Caribbean peoples in their genealogies and family histories. Photographer and visual documentarian Marvin Elliott Ellis, author and genealogist Melvin Collier, and historian and preservationist Sonia Jacobs Dow will discuss and share successful techniques and strategies to trace your genealogy and family history.

Electric Kif captures the energy of execution in their fusion of cosmic funk, rock, soul, and jazz. Their powerful live show brings an unparalleled energy and sound every night for music lovers in the Magic City.

In Changing the Subject: Art and Attention in the Internet Age, Sven Birkerts, one of America’s most distinguished, eloquent writers about poetry and fiction examines what is lost by our wholesale acceptance of digital innovation, and what is regained when we immerse ourselves in a good book. In the thirty essays collected in Where Have You Been?: Selected Essays, Michael ...

A discussion on putting personally and politically difficult topics from real life on the comics page. Jennifer Hayden’s graphic novel about her life and her experience with breast cancer is the aptly named The Story of My Tits. Leah Hayes' graphic novel, Not Funny Ha-Ha, presents two young women from different backgrounds as they go through the process of having ...

As the invisible Berlin Wall across the straits between Cuba and Florida begins to crumble, the more subtle and poetic voices of those who have been experiencing Cuba for a lifetime  — loving, grieving, and dreaming in Cuban — are being shut out. In response, writers Ruth Behar and Richard Blanco joined their minds and hearts to create a blog, ...

Evil villains are overthrown and reemerge, secret puzzles hold the key to preserving the Disney magic, friendships are created, and villains are vanquished, in Melissa De La Cruz's The Isle of the Lost (A Descendants Novel) and Ridley Pearson's Kingdom Keepers: The Return Book One Disney Lands. Presented in partnership with:

Breaking and popping with Miami’s b-boy dance crew Flipside Kings! All performances on the Once Upon a Time Children's Stage are sponsored by

In Virgin Territory, acclaimed food writer-journalist and Mediterranean expert Nancy Harmon Jenkins explores the seductive world of extra-virgin olive oil; in The Four Seasons of Pasta, she has teamed with her daughter master-chef Sara Jenkins for a unique round-the-year cookbook celebrating simple, easy pasta dishes from Italy and elsewhere.

In award-winning writer Jesse Ball’s fifth novel, A Cure for Suicide—a Longlist selection for a 2015 National Book Award in Fiction—a woman "examiner" and a man, her "claimant," move into a small house where the examiner teaches the claimant the most simple functions and monitors his progress, until an encounter at a party raises doubts about everything he has learned. ...

Everyone’s favorite dog, Rocket, is back for another lesson in writing and reading—and he brought all his friends! Practice your ABC’s with Tad Hills’ R is for Rocket: An ABC Book.  

Sponsored by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Get the view from the front lines of literary publishing, as John Gosslee of Fjords Review and C&R Press, P. Scott Cunningham of Jai-Alai Books, Ralph Hamilton of Rhino, and Miguel Pichardo of Gulf Stream discuss what editors look for in submitted work, the shifting literary landscape, what it takes ...

Are you completely and utterly normal, average and just plain standard? Perfect! Ordinary kids become covert spies, monster slayers, and Apocalyptic mutant hunting heroes, in Gitty Daneshvari’s The League of Unexceptional Children, Max Brallier’s The Last Kids on Earth, and Michael Tanner & Greg Smith’s Junior Braves of the Apocalypse.

Two-time New York City police commissioner Ray Kelly opens up about his remarkable life, taking us inside fifty years of law enforcement leadership, in Vigilance: My Life Serving America and Protecting Its Empire City.

In Collaboration with Wordier Than Thou It’s rare to meet someone living in Florida who was actually born and raised in Florida. It’s such a transient state, and everyone has their own reasons for coming here – love, money, or simply the need for a fresh start. Several Florida-based authors will share their stories of what drew them to the ...

Ashlee Vance’s biography, Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future, provides an inside look at the life of one of Silicon Valley’s most audacious entrepreneurs. Eileen Pollack's The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science Is Still a Boys' Club, presents a bracingly honest exploration of why there are still so few women in the hard ...

B.A. Shapiro’s The Muralist: A Novel traces the life and mysterious disappearance of a brilliant young artist on the eve of World War II. In The Jazz Palace: A Novel, acclaimed author Mary Morris returns to her Chicago roots in this sweeping novel that brilliantly captures the dynamic atmosphere and the dazzling music of the Jazz Age. Paula McLain’s Circling ...

Story Pirates turn your ideas into hilarious and unexpected performances. All performances on the Once Upon a Time Children's Stage are sponsored by

The debate over U.S. immigration policies is polarizing, and often simplistic. Discover the complex, disturbing, and heartbreaking stories of those caught up in the real-life struggle to get to, and stay, in America, with Mirta Ojito, Hunting Season: Immigration and Murder in an All-American Town; Rachèle Magloire, director of the documentary Deported; Margaret Regan, Detained and Deported: Stories of Immigrant Families ...

Experts from the fields of history and ethnic studies consider the economies, cultural identities, and political struggles that have bridged and divided the experiences of Caribbean people. Join Ada Ferrer (Freedom's Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution); Alaí Reyes-Santos (Our Caribbean Kin: Race and Nation in the Neoliberal Antilles); Matthew J. Smith (Liberty, Fraternity, Exile: Haiti and ...

Rebellion, revenge, and twists of fate take center stage as covert plans are put in place to exact revenge and kick some butt, in the fantasy-drenched, history-inspired worlds of Victoria Aveyard’s The Red Queen and Ryan Graudin’s Wolf by Wolf Presented in partnership with:

The American Diabetes Association teams up with best-selling author Linda Gassenheimer to cook up Quick and Easy Chicken, an affordable, easy-to-follow collection of chicken recipes, and Delicious One-Pot Dishes, family friendly dishes that are a snap to prepare--both designed for people with diabetes or prediabetes.

Sponsored by The de Groot Foundation. Stacy Schiff’s newest book is The Witches: Salem, 1692, a historical examination of the Salem Witch Trials and their impact on American society and politics. Tickets for this event are no longer available online. Please visit the ticket booth at the venue for more information on availability of tickets. Free tickets will be required for admission ...

Sponsored by the Green Family Foundation. In Marie Mutsuki Mockett’s Where the Dead Pause, and the Japanese Say Goodbye: A Journey, Mockett is guided through rituals of grief by a colorful cast of Zen priests and ordinary Japanese. M.J. Fievre’s coming-of-age memoir, A Sky the Color of Chaos, brings to life the horrors and the beauty of growing up in ...

Sponsored by the Green Family Foundation. Miami-based Iris PhotoCollective’s upcoming book, Havana Haiti: Two Cultures One Community, is a photo-journalism and essay project that portrays the complex connections between Haiti and her neighbor, Cuba. Iris PhotoCollective co-founder Carl Juste and project director Luis Rios will be joined by prominent photo journalists and writers André Chung, Edwidge Dandicat, Carol Guzy, CW ...

A scholar and writer uses Dante’s Divine Comedy to shepherd him through the dark wood of grief and mourning, in Joseph Luzzi’s In a Dark Wood: What Dante Taught Me About Grief, Healing, and the Mysteries of Love. Journalist,  essayist, and bestselling author Michael Paterniti presents seventeen wide-ranging essays collected for the first time in Love and Other Ways of ...

Paul Holdengräber, director of the New York Public Library’s conversation series "Live from the NYPL," interviews Adam Phillips, whom the New Yorker calls "Britain's foremost psychoanalytical writer," about his latest book, Becoming Freud: The Making of a Psychoanalyst, in which Phillips presents the largely undocumented story of Freud's earliest years.

Dance and groove to Latin Grammy Award winners Lucky Diaz and the Family Jam Band! All performances on the Once Upon a Time Children's Stage are sponsored by

Adventurers young and brave uncover family secrets and meet their destinies in David Teague’s Connect the Stars and Paul Durham's The Luck Uglies: Fork Tongue Charmers.

The graphic novel Battle Lines has been called “a Civil War comic Hollywood can learn from” by the Atlantic and “a remarkable achievement both as a work of history and visual literature” by Salon. Learn about its making from its authors, award-winning historian Ari Kelman (A Misplaced Massacre) and historical graphic novelist Jonathan Fetter-Vorm (Trinity). Moderated by Battle Lines editor Joan Hilty.  

The Tropes of War: Visual Hyperbole and Spectacular Culture by Andrea Greenbaum examines the remnants of war that construct the narratives of returning soldiers, and documents how those who record their memories endeavour to excavate these broken pieces.

From ABC News nutrition and wellness correspondent David Zinczenko, comes Zero Belly Cookbook: 150+ Delicious Recipes to Flatten Your Belly, Turn Off Your Fat Genes, and Help Keep You Lean for Life!, a collection of recipes that will teach anyone how to lose weight fast, and get healthier in just minutes a day.

In Harness the Sun, Philip Warburg takes readers on a far-flung journey that explores America’s solar revolution. In his bracing response to climate change, Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization, Roy Scranton combines memoir, reportage, philosophy, and  Zen wisdom to explore what it means to be human in a rapidly evolving world. Wen ...

Sponsored by TD Bank. In Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush, Pulitzer Prize-winner Jon Meacham charts the thoughts, decisions, and emotions of a modern president who may have been the last of his kind. From the Oval Office to Camp David, from his study in the private quarters of the White House to Air Force ...

Sponsored by The Lillian Fine Memorial Literary Endowment. Lily King discusses her novel, Euphoria, with her editor, Elisabeth Schmitz. Euphoria is the national, best-selling breakout story of three young, gifted anthropologists of the ‘30s caught in a passionate love triangle that threatens their bonds, their careers, and, ultimately, their lives.  

James Beard award-winners, Nathalie Dupree and Cynthia Graubart demo how to master the art of southern vegetables. This cooking demonstration includes a tasting and is ticketed.  Seating is limited. Books will be available for sale and to be signed by the authors. Tickets for this event are no longer available online. Please visit the ticket booth at the venue for ...

Storytelling in English and Spanish with Carrie Sue Ayvar. All performances on the Once Upon a Time Children's Stage are sponsored by

Clifford Thompson’s Twin of Blackness is a culturally important memoir that traces an artist’s evolution in the post-civil rights era. Julie Marie Wade’s Tremolo: An Essay seamlessly weaves together the writer’s search for sexual self-knowledge with insights into the poetry of Galway Kinnell. Award-winning poet Michael White presents Travels in Vermeer, Longlisted for a 2015 National Book Award in Nonfiction, ...

Veteran Washington, D.C. attorney Ronald Goldfarb and contributors to After Snowden: Privacy, Secrecy, and Security in the Information Age discuss the legal, political, and journalistic ramifications of national security leaks.  

Sponsored by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Today, there is more awareness in the vital role that independently owned businesses play in the economic and cultural life of the country. The same goes for publishing. What makes publishing with an indie press a different, perhaps even better experience for authors? Publishing industry all-stars Helene Atwan, Director of ...

In A Moment of Silence, New York Times bestselling author Lisa “Sister Souljah" Williamson returns to the story of Midnight, a young man searching for love and fulfillment across the globe.

Delou Africa presents "Movements and Rhythms of Africa." All performances on the Once Upon a Time Children's Stage are sponsored by

Sponsored by The de Groot Foundation. Renowned journalist Ted Koppel reveals that a major cyberattack on America’s power grid is not only possible but likely, and that the United States is shockingly unprepared, in Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath. Tickets for this event are no longer available online. Please visit the ticket booth at the ...

Ilyasah Shabazz, third daughter of Malcolm X, activist, producer, motivational speaker, and author, is the co-author of X: A Novel—a Longlist selection for the 2015 National Book Award in Young People’s Literature—follows Malcolm from his childhood to his imprisonment for theft at age twenty, when he found the faith that would lead him to forge a new path and command a ...

(Corner of NE 3rd Street and 2nd Avenue) The Working Poet Radio Show (WPRS) is a podcast and interview series dedicated to the working lives of creative people. Inspired by late-night talk shows, Joseph Lapin — journalist, author and host of WPRS — explores the poetry that powers the creative impulse. Join Lapin and his guests: comics author Derf Backderf, ...

Sponsored by Miami Book Fair's Literati Society. Acclaimed stage and screen actors Paul Giamatti and David Strathairn join theater director and translator Bryan Doerries to celebrate his new book, The Theater of War, through dramatic readings and conversation. The Theater of War powerfully illustrates his experience engaging military personnel, veterans, and communities visited by trauma with the redemptive and therapeutic power of classic Greek plays. ...

There are few names as recognizable and in the Miami music scene as Afrobeta, the electro-pop duo who have become a staple on EDM stages around the world. AfroBeta’s infectious beats deliver a universal message.

Join The Rock Bottom Remainders and Miami Book Fair’s distinguished roster of authors for the first EVER open-to-the-public authors’ party. Gather in the plaza outside the newest Books & Books location, the Carnival Tower at the Arsht, for a live performance by the Rock Bottom Remainders, the one-and-only band comprised of literary legends. This year’s roster of hard rockin’ writers ...