In Min Jin Lee's bestselling novel, Pachinko, four generations of a poor Korean immigrant family fight to control their destiny in 20th-century Japan, exiled from a home they never knew. Set in St. Petersburg on the eve of the Russian Revolution, Janet Fitch’s latest novel, The Revolution of Marina M., depicts a young woman of privilege who aches to break ...

Join Carol Fitzgerald of Bookreporter.com as she takes the audience on a tour of great book club reads for fall and winter and interviews author Ann Hood about her newest books The Book that Matters Most: A Novel and Morningstar: Growing Up with Books. In Hood’s novel The Book That Matters Most, a lonely woman who joins a book club ...

Poet Gustavo Adolfo Aybar explores baseball in his poetry collection, We Seek Asylum, as an allegorical meditation on the battle for the soul of the Dominican Republic. Actor, writer, and poet Yrsa Daley-Ward’s collection, bone, details her experiences as a first-generation black British woman working through abuse, vulnerability, and redemption. Poet and performer Aja Monet’s My Mother Was A Freedom ...

Drawing on extensive research and interviews, the host of Hardball, Chris Matthews, returns with Bobby Kennedy: A Raging Spirit, a gripping, in-depth, behind-the-scenes portrait of one of the great figures of the American twentieth century. Overlooked by his father, and overshadowed by his war-hero brother, Bobby Kennedy was the perpetual underdog. But RFK would prove himself to be the rarest ...

Achy Obejas’s short story collection, The Tower of the Antilles focuses on Cuban characters, and poignantly captures how history and fate intrude on even the most ordinary of lives. Siel Ju's first novel in short stories is Cake Time, which grapples with urgent, timeless questions: why intelligent girls make terrible choices, where to negotiate a private self in an increasingly ...

On the 25th anniversary of Hurricane Andrew, photographer Barry Fellman presents, HURRICANE, featuring powerful images that Fellman captured immediately following this devastating storm’s touchdown. Fellman is joined by meteorologist Bryan Norcross, who contributed to HURRICANE.

Elizabeth Kostova's suspenseful novel, set in Bulgaria, The Shadow Land, spans the past and the present—and unearths the troubled history of a gorgeous but haunted country. In Bradford Morrow's novel, The Prague Sonata, a young musicologist whose concert piano career was cut short by an injury sets out on an unforgettable search to locate the remaining movements of a mysterious ...

James Allen Hall's collection of essays, I Liked You Better Before I Knew You So Well, recounts his journey to queerness, which persisted despite a youth marred by violence, addiction, and homophobia.

Professor Erica Armstrong Dunbar's Never Caught: The Washington’s Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge is the powerful and surprising narrative of Ona Judge, George and Martha Washington’s runaway slave who risked it all to escape the nation’s capital and reach freedom. The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in ...

On Saturday and Sunday, we will have the following on-going roving and pop-up performances taking place throughout Children’s Alley, throughout the day Look out—look up is more like it—for the ever-fabulous stilt walkers. They really stand out in a crowd! Cirko Teatro presents the hilarious local favorite El show de Enriqueta y Agapito. Pavillion Productions treats us to bilingual renditions ...

David Callahan’s The Givers: Wealth, Power, and Philanthropy in a New Gilded Age provides a fascinating investigation of a power shift in American society that has implications for us all. Sponsored by

Guided Meditation Session from Innergy Meditation Studios--Breathe, chill, and be still with the blissfully centered instructors from Innergy. Sponsored by

In One Nation After Trump: A Guide for the Perplexed, the Disillusioned, the Desperate, and the Not-Yet Deported, Norman Ornstein explains Trump’s rise and the danger his administration poses to our free institutions. PURCHASE TICKETS TICKETS AVAILABLE MONDAY, NOVEMBER 6 AT 10 A.M. Free tickets will be required for admission to this presentation. Seating with a ticket is on a ...

The National Poetry Series was established in 1978 to recognize and promote excellence in contemporary poetry by ensuring the publication of five books of poetry annually through participating publishers. In addition, the National Poetry Series has partnered with Miami Book Fair to award the Paz Prize in Poetry and bilingual publication for a book of poems written in Spanish. This ...

Far from the cliché images of dilapidated palazzos and 1950s-era cars, Hermes Mallea's Havana Living Today: Cuban Home Style Now presents a vibrant, creative, and forward-looking city through the lens of an eclectic collection of domestic interiors. Caribbean antiques expert, art historian, and adventurer Dr. Michael Connors presents the breadth of the island's most intriguing destinations and architectural treasures, in Cuba: ...

Author of The Adderall Diaries, Stephen Elliott, gathers personal essays, reportage, and profiles written over fifteen years to tell a powerful story about outsiders and underdogs, in Sometimes I Think About It. In his memoir, The Abu Dhabi Bar Mitzvah: Fear and Love in the Modern Middle East, armed only with college Arabic and restless curiosity, Adam Valen Levinson set ...

Drawing on recommendations from book editors, critics, translators, and authors from across the globe, Freeman’s: The Future of New Writing includes pieces from a select list of poets, fiction writers, and essayists whose work boldly breaks new ground against a climate of nationalism and siloed thinking, influenced by work from outside their region and genre. Aged twenty-five to seventy, the ...

Danny Goldberg lived through the 60s and remembers it well. The former chairman of Warner Bros. and Atlantic Records has written In Search of the Lost Chord: My Life Inside the Rock and Roll Business (Akashic), a mosaic of seminal moments in the psychedelic, spiritual, rock-and-roll, and political protest cultures of 1967. Goldberg is joined in conversation with renowned journalist ...

In Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America, Yale law professor James Forman, Jr. explains why the war on crime that began in the 1970s was supported by many African American leaders in the nation’s urban centers, and how that support would have devastating consequences for residents of poor black neighborhoods. Lauren-Brooke Eisen's Inside Private Prisons: An ...

Multi-ethnicity, Racelessness, Indigenismo. These are some terms of identity that have masked the ways that anti-Blackness and ambivalence, if not full resistance to Latin America’s African roots, have evolved in nations across the region. With attention to its historic roots, contemporary manifestations, and present-day movements, these authors offer compelling insight into the ways that race, identity and politics have intersected ...

Do your part to address the absence of creative literacy programs in prisons—without getting arrested. Formerly incarcerated students, family members, and writing partners from the community will read writings (in English and Spanish) by Exchange for Change’s incarcerated writers. “Exchange” with them by recording responses to their work. Sponsored by

Get a glimpse at surreal tales where children grow up to be robots, toys come alive, and a surfboard carries friends into a supernatural mystery, and gods struggle with real desires. These top creators share insight about why fantasy can be the best tool to teach kids about reality, with Janet Lee and Jim McCann (Return of the Dapper Men), ...

From Jami Attenberg, the New York Times best-selling author of The Middlesteins, comes All Grown Up, a wickedly funny novel about a thirty-nine-year-old single, childfree woman who defies convention as she seeks connection. In Lauren Grodstein's poignant novel, Our Short Story, a dying mother struggles to play out her last days in the "right" way for her son. Three decades ...

In World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech, Franklin Foer reveals the existential threat posed by big tech, and in his brilliant polemic gives us the toolkit to fight their pervasive influence. Jonathan Taplin’s Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy is a stinging polemic that traces the destructive monopolization ...

Laleh Khadivi’s timely coming-of-age novel, A Good Country tracks the progression of a fourteen-year-old son of Iranian immigrants from straight-A student, to happy-go-lucky stoner, to religious radical. Set across a backdrop of refugee migration that spans Africa, America and Australia, Harriet Levin Millan's How Fast Can You Run is the inspiring story of Michael Majok Kuch and his journey to ...

Elliot Ackerman’s Dark at the Crossing is a contemporary love story set on the Turkish border with Syria. In Daniel Alarcón’s story collection, The King Is Always Above the People, migration, betrayal, family secrets, doomed love, and uncertain futures are transformed into deeply human stories with high stakes. Lisa Ko's powerful debut, The Leavers, winner of the 2016 PEN/Bellwether Prize ...

Larry Pressler’s memoir, Neighbours in Arms: An American Senator's Quest for Disarmament in a Nuclear Subcontinent, exposes the enormous power wielded by the military-industrial complex, and how it controls significant aspects of the American presence in the Indian subcontinent.

Joyce Maynard presents her memoir of finding strength in the midst of great loss, in The Best of Us. To the New Owners: A Martha's Vineyard Memoir is Madeleine Blais's recollection of summers spent at her in-laws bucolic cottage. In her memoir The Wine Lover’s Daughter, Anne Fadiman examines her relationship with her father, Clifton Fadiman, a renowned literary critic, ...

Acclaimed author Mary Gordon's novel, There Your Heart Lies, is a deeply moving story about an American woman’s experiences during the Spanish Civil War, the lessons she learned, and how her story will shape her granddaughter’s path. Colm Tóibín’s House of Names: A Novel is a retelling of the story of Clytemnestra—spectacularly audacious, violent, vengeful, lustful, and instantly compelling—and her ...

In Intuitive Alphabet, Michele Oka Doner turns her keen eye to the glyphic forms embedded in shells, sponges, and other natural forms she found, collected, and curated during her frequent walks on the beach. In her art book Everything is Alive, one is led through the artistic processes behind some of her prominent art installations. Oka Doner will be joined in conversation by New Yorker staff ...

Frank Bidart's latest collection, Half-light: Collected Poems 1965–2016, encompasses all of Bidart’s previous books, and also includes a new collection, Thirst.  Mai Der Vang’s Afterland recounts with devastating detail the Hmong exodus from Laos and the fate of thousands of refugees seeking asylum. Chen Chen’s When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities investigates inherited ...

Elastic Bond – Groove to psychedelic trip-trop that blends funk, hip-hop, soul, and latin. Sponsored by

Perhaps the best way to understand Russia is by understanding the men who have led it. Join two master biographers as they discuss two of modern day Russia’s most fascinating and influential leaders:  New York Times reporter and biographer Steven Lee Myers, author of The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin, and William Taubman, Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer and ...

University of Miami law professor Donald Jones’ Dangerous Spaces: Beyond the Racial Profile (Intersections of Race, Ethnicity, and Culture) is an eye-opening, unapologetic explanation of what racial profiling is in modern-day America: the systematic targeting of communities and placing of suspicion on specific populations.

Master biographer Walter Isaacson brings to life the astounding creative genius of Leonardo da Vinci, based on thousands of pages from Leonardo’s astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work. Sponsored by: At this time, there are currently no tickets available for this presentation. If you were unable to obtain tickets, and would like to attend this event, you ...

In Alisyn Camerota's novel, Amanda Wakes Up, a woman who lands the coveted morning anchor slot must decide what she’s willing to give up to get ahead—and what she needs to hold on to save herself. In Mary Simses’s latest novel, The Rules of Love and Grammar, a woman finds love and closure, and rediscovers herself, when she returns to ...

Melvin A. Goodman's Whistleblower at the CIA: An Insider's Account of the Politics of Intelligence is a rare insider's account of the inner workings of America's intelligence community. Pulitzer Prize-winning Daniel Golden's Spy Schools: How the CIA, FBI, and Foreign Intelligence Secretly Exploit America's Universities exposes how academia has become a major target of foreign and domestic espionage―and why that ...

Idra Novey’s Ways to Disappear is a novel about the disappearance of a famous Brazilian novelist and the young translator who turns her life upside down to follow her author's trail. In Yasmine El Rashidi's debut novel, Chronicle of a Last Summer, a young Egyptian woman recounts her personal and political coming of age. Set in the vibrant coastal and ...

Dylan Thuras and Ella Morton co-author Atlas Obscura, a modern-day atlas that celebrates over 700 of the strangest and most curious places in the world.

Althea McDowell Altemus’s memoir, Big Bosses: A Working Girl’s Memoir of Jazz Age America, edited by Professor of History Robin F. Bachin, presents a one-of-a-kind peek inside the excitement & challenges of being a woman and a professional during the roaring ‘20s. Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital is a riveting history of New ...

Catch these loud-and-proud readings from the contributors to the forthcoming Burrow Press anthology, We Can’t Help It If We’re From Florida: New Stories from a Sinking Peninsula. Sponsored by

Dr. Sylvia Tara’s groundbreaking book, The Secret Life of Fat brings cutting-edge research together with historical perspectives to reveal fat’s true identity: an endocrine organ that, in the right amount, is critical to our health. Florencia Ramirez’s Eat Less Water tells the story of water served on our plates: an eye-opening account of the under-appreciated environmental threat of water scarcity, ...

Acclaimed author George Saunders’s latest novel, Lincoln in the Bardo, long-listed for the Man Booker Prize, is set in 1862. The Civil War is less than one-year old. President Lincoln’s beloved eleven-year-old son, Willie, dies and is laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery. From that seed of historical truth, Saunders spins an unforgettable story of familial love and loss ...

In his 2016 New York Times op-ed piece "Death in Black and White," Michael Eric Dyson moved a nation. Now he continues to speak out in Tears We Cannot Stop, a provocative and deeply personal call for change. Dyson argues that if we are to make real racial progress we must face difficult truths, including being honest about how black ...

Meteorologist Bryan Norcross presents My Hurricane Andrew Story: The story behind the preparation, the terror, the resilience, and the renowned TV coverage of the Great Hurricane of 1992. Sponsored by:

Rachel Pearson’s No Apparent Distress: A Doctor’s Coming-of-Age on the Front Lines of American Medicine, is a brutally frank memoir about doctors and patients in a health care system that puts the poor at risk. Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation, edited by John Freeman, presents some of the literary world’s most exciting writers, who ...

Marked, Unmarked, Remembered: A Geography of American Memory combines powerful photographs by award-winning photojournalist Andrew Lichtenstein with meditations on meaning and landscape by Alex Lichtenstein, Editor of the American Historical Review. Photojournalist and educator Michael Carlebach's new photo collection, Some of Us, presents people and places across the country caught like reflections in a quickly passed mirror that remind us ...

In A Man and His Presidents: The Political Odyssey of William F. Buckley Jr., Alvin S. Felzenberg sheds light on little-known aspects of the most influential American conservative writer, activist, and organizer in the postwar era. In The Gifted Generation: When Government Was Good, a sweeping history of the post-World War II decades, David Goldfield examines the generation immediately after ...

Erica Armstrong Dunbar's Never Caught: The Washington’s Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge is the powerful and surprising narrative of George and Martha Washington’s runaway slave. In Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America, James Forman, Jr. explains why the war on crime that began in the 1970s was supported by many African American leaders ...

Chen Chen’s poetry collection, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities, winner of the 2016 A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize, investigates inherited forms of love and family—all from Asian American, immigrant, and queer perspectives. Danez Smith’s Don’t Call Us Dead is an astonishing collection of poetry, one that confronts America— where every day is ...

Alissa Nutting's novel, Made for Love, is at once an absurd, raunchy comedy and a dazzling, profound meditation marriage, monogamy, and family. Based on her experience as Hunter S. Thompson's assistant, Cheryl Della Pietra novel Gonzo Girl proves that the road to hell is paved with good intentions--and tequila, guns, and cocaine. Weike Wang’s Chemistry: A Novel is a luminous ...

In her collection of short stories, Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado bends genre to shape startling narratives that map the realities of women’s lives and the violence visited upon their bodies. In Lambda Award-winning Sylvia Brownrigg’s novel, Pages for Her, two former lovers meet at a conference and find that the passion and understanding between them has ...

Annabelle Gurwitch's new hysterically funny and slylyinsightful essay collection is Wherever You Go, There They Are: Stories About My Family You Might Relate To. In her debut essay collection, Would Everybody Please Stop?: Reflections on Life and Other Bad Ideas, humorist and performer Jenny Allen reports from the potholes midway through life’s journey. With sidesplitting commentary, Steve Rushin creates a ...

Salman Rushdie’s novel The Golden House is a modern American epic set against the panorama of contemporary politics and culture; an eccentric billionaire moves into a cloistered neighborhood in Greenwich Village; and meanwhile, like a bad joke, a comic book villain makes a bid for the White House. At this time, there are currently no tickets available for this presentation. If ...

Unistiq —Slammin’ sounds from some of the alumni of Miami’s high-impact arts-based mentoring program Guitars Over Guns. Sponsored by

Meryl Gordon brings readers an illuminating biography of this last scion of the gilded age of American wealth, in Bunny Mellon: The Life of an American Style Legend. My Life with Frank Sinatra is a candid and eye-opening inside look at the final decades of Sinatra's life, told by his long-time manager and friend, Eliot Weisman.

Kathleen McAuliffe’s This Is Your Brain on Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society is both a journey into cutting-edge science and a revelatory examination of what it means to be human.

Ali Noorani’s There Goes the Neighborhood explores the changing story of America through interviews with civic leaders about the immigration crisis. Helen Thorpe’s The Newcomers follows the lives of twenty-two immigrant teenagers throughout the course of the 2015-2016 school year as they adapt to American culture and the English language.

Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History is journalist Katy Tur’s darkly comic, fascinatingly bizarre, and often scary story of how America sent a former reality show host to the White House. In Conversation with Tony Dokoupil. At this time, there are currently no tickets available for this presentation. If you were unable to obtain tickets, and ...

Undefeated: From Tragedy to Triumph recounts Marc Buoniconti's journey from a paralyzing football injury to a life devoted to helping those suffering from catastrophic injury.

Lydia Millet’s Sweet Lamb of Heaven: A Novel, nominated for the National Book Award for Fiction, blends domestic thriller and psychological horror, as a mother flees her estranged husband. Witty, biting, and terrifyingly timely, Radio Free Vermont is Bill McKibben's fictional response to the burgeoning resistance movement.

The State Of – Power duo Nabedi Osorio (drums) and Steph Taylor (keys) blend pop/rock that ranges from originals to iconic covers. Sponsored by

Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the geographic area of the book. Now, two of Trinidad’s top writers masterfully curate this literary retrospective of the nation’s best writing over the past century. With co-editor ...

C.M. Clark documents a dystopian journey along the fabled Silk Road in The Five Snouts that is at once alien, mesmerizing, and familiar. In Maria Sings, Catherine Esposito Prescott follows the main character through cancer treatment, raising questions of femininity and the desire to heal. Rudi Goblen’s A Bag of Halos and Horns is inspired by love, family, and mass ...

How to Be a Muslim: An American Story is a memoir about Haroon Moghul’s struggle to forge an American Muslim identity in the aftermath of 9/11. In his book of essays, They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us, Hanif Abdurraqib uses music and culture as a lens through which to view our world, so that we might better understand ...

Former Navy SEAL Leif Babin offers a compelling narrative with powerful instruction and direct application of the SEAL's principles to business management, in Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win.

In Robin Benway’s Far From the Tree, being the middle child has its ups and downs, but for Grace, an only child who was adopted at birth, discovering that she is a middle child is a different ride altogether. In Samantha Mabry’s All the Wind in the World, a couple on the run may have to pay a frighteningly high price for ...

In Ann Hood's memoir, Morningstar: Growing Up with Books, she recounts how she learned to channel her imagination, ambitions, and curiosity by devouring ever-growing stacks of books. My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues, is New York Times Book Review Editor Pamela’s Paul’s memoir about her reading journal, and what her reading choices reveal about ...

Award-winning playwright and screenwriter Kia Corthon's first novel is The Castle Cross the Magnet Carter, in which four boys from small-town America will culminate in an explosive and devastating encounter between their two families. Set in rural Georgia during the Depression, Eleanor Henderson's epic novel, The Twelve-Mile Straight, a lynching touches off an exploration of racialized violence, social division, and ...

Patricia Posner’s biography, The Pharmacist of Auschwitz, tells the little-known story of a Bayer pharmaceutical salesman from Romania who became the chief pharmacist at the largest Nazi death camp during World War II—Auschwitz . Victor Ripp's memoir Hell's Traces: One Murder, Two Families, Thirty-Five Holocaust Memorials tells the story of the two families’ divergent paths during and in the aftermath ...

Akhil Sharma's collection of short stories, A Life of Adventure and Delight, provides an intimate, honest assessment of human relationships between mothers and sons, sons and lovers, and husband and wives. Jessie Chaffee's vivid, visceral debut, Florence in Ecstasy, gives us an arresting new vision of a woman’s attempt to find meaning―and find herself―in an unstable world. Karen Shepard’s collection ...

Panda Kitchen spokeswoman, author, television personality, and owner of Chef Adrianne’s Vineyard Restaurant and Wine Bar, Adrianne Calvo discusses her techniques for achieving maximum flavor. In You're Next! Turn Your Disappointment into Destiny, Julie Voudry and Elaine Duran share their captivating stories and the principles they applied to go from cake klutzes to television personalities. Using Linda Gassenheimer's The 12-Week ...

In An American Family: A Memoir of Hope and Sacrifice, Khizr Khan, the Gold Star father who electrified viewers around the world when he offered to lend Donald Trump his own pocket Constitution, presents a stirring, timeless, and urgent defense of the rights, dignities, and values enshrined in the American system. PURCHASE TICKETS TICKETS AVAILABLE MONDAY, NOVEMBER 6 AT 10 ...

Magic City Hippies – Miami-based Indie Funk band, dusted with a taste of hiphop, and baked in an oven of Soul. Sponsored by

The memoir, Cuba 18, U.S. 50, tells the story of Dr. Roland Ochoa’s transition from a Cuban TV child star to a management professor in the U.S.

Veteran publicist Justin Loeber presents a scrappy, humorous, real-life, kick-in-the-pants wake-up call with his new book, Get Out of Your Own Way Guide to Life: 10 Steps to Shift Gears, Dream Big, Do it Now!

Immigration attorney Naresh M. Gehi guides readers through the seemingly daunting process of obtainining a visa to the U.S., in Immigration For Everyone!