In Running with Raven, Laura Lee Huttenbach tells the incredible story of Robert “Raven” Kraft, a lonely outcast, who, in 1975, made a New Years’ resolution to run eight miles on South Beach every day. Over forty years, 125,000 miles, seven hurricanes, chronic back pain and several hospitalizations later, he hasn’t missed a single day. Huttenbach also tells the stories ...

Four working poets draw inspiration from specific landscapes: Jim Daniels’ Rowing Inland takes readers back to the Metro Detroit of his youth and then accelerates toward the future. Michael Hettich maps out worlds of surprising unpredictability in memory of The Frozen Harbor. In Red Deer, Anne Marie Macari explores the prehistoric caves of France and Spain, communing with the lives ...

Woody Allen biographer Eric Lax follows the legendary director throughout the creation of a film—from  inception to premiere, and presents his reflections on some of the finest artists in the history of cinema. From Start To Finish: Woody Allen and the Art of Moviemaking.

As he travels across twelve countries and reports from the front lines, acclaimed journalist Jeff Goodell employs fact, science, and on-the-ground journalism to show vivid scenes from what already is becoming a water world, in The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World. In Extreme Cities: The Peril and Promise of Urban Life ...

Award-winning historian Maya Jasanoff presents The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World, in which she reveals Conrad as a prophet of globalization. In Dig If You Will the Picture: Funk, Sex, God and Genius in the Music of Prince, Ben Greenman presents a unique and kaleidoscopic look into the life, legacy, and electricity of the pop legend Prince ...

A Visit from the Goon Squad author Jennifer Egan’s first historical novel, Manhattan Beach, is set in a world populated by gangsters, sailors, divers, bankers, and union men.

In How the Right Lost Its Mind, radio host Charles Sykes presents an impassioned, regretful, and deeply thoughtful account of how the American conservative movement came to lose its values. 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 “first come, first ...

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 ...

What does it take to write an honest memoir? Melanie Brooks’ Writing Hard Stories: Celebrated Memoirists Who Shaped Art from Trauma (Beacon Press) describes more than a dozen celebrated authors’ treks through dark memories and breakthrough moments. Join Brooks and two of the writers profiled in Writing Hard Stories—Edwidge Danticat and Richard Blanco—for an honest discussion of what it takes ...

In his novel Gangster Nation, the sequel to Gangsterland, Tod Goldberg traces how the things we most value in our lives―home, health, even our spiritual lives―have been built on the enterprises of criminals. Nelson George's To Funk and Die in LA, the fourth book in the D Hunter crime-fiction series, brings the ex-bodyguard to the City of Angels on a ...

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

11:00 a.m. / Rm. 2106 (Bldg. 2, 1st Floor) Madison Smartt Bell's latest novel is the metaphysical thriller Behind the Moon, in which a girl fleeing from a violent sexual encounter in the desert tumbles into a cave and falls into a fever dream inspired by ancient drawings on the cave walls. In conversation with City Lights Editor Elaine Katzenberger.

Larry Smith's Six Words Fresh Off the Boat: Stories of Immigration, Identity, and Coming to America, marries the phenomenon of Larry Smith's successful Six-Word Memoirs with ABC and 20th Century Fox Television's hit comedy Fresh Off the Boat. The 52 micro-memoirs in Beth Ann Fennelly's genre-defying Heating & Cooling offer bright glimpses into a richly lived life, combining the compression ...

Megan Abbott's novel, You Will Know Me, answers the question: Just how far will a parent go to achieve their child's dream? Rivers Solomon’s novel An Unkindness of Ghosts, follows the journey of a girl on antiquated space vessel she is desperate to escape that is ferrying the last fragments of humanity to a mythical Promised Land. Ivy Pochoda's latest novel, ...

In 2017, the public library is an American institution frequently under threat. The disruptive forces at work are political, fiscal and technological. Technology promises admittance to a virtual library that is polyglot and global in breadth and depth. Yet in Washington, the Trump Administration earlier this year proposed dramatic funding cuts that call into question the federal government’s role in ...

Jen Karetnick’s guidebook, The 500 Hidden Secrets of Miami, gives readers an insider's tour of the Magic City. Kirsten Hines and James A. Kushlan present South Florida’s Biscayne Bay, its keys, the coral reef, and the national park that protects them are celebrated in Biscayne National Park. Terri Mashour’s Backcountry Trails of Florida: A Guide to Hiking Florida's Water Management ...

Angela Saini’s Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story, investigates the gender wars in biology, psychology, and anthropology, and delves into cutting-edge scientific studies to uncover a fascinating new portrait of women’s brains, bodies, and role in human evolution. Kate Harding presents 23 Leading Feminist Writers on Protest and Solidarity, in Nasty Women: Feminism, ...

August Kleinzahler's Sallies, Romps, Portraits, and Send-Offs: Selected Prose, 2000-2016 gathers the best of sixteen years’ worth of essays, remembrances, and reviews in this scabrous and essential collection. In The Tunnel at the End of the Light: Essays on Movies and Politics, Jim Shepard explores how we enter conversations with specific genres and films in order to construct and refine ...

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. Hailed as "one of the great poets of the past hundred years," Paul Muldoon’s Selected Poems 1968–2014 offers forty-six years of his work drawn from twelve individual collections. In Fast, Pulitzer Prize winning poet Jorie Graham’s first collection in ...

Denise Duhamel takes on celebrity, sex, reproduction, and religion in her new poetry collection, Scald. In Magdalene, Marie Howe imagines the biblical figure of Mary Magdalene as spiritual, sensual, and searching for meaning in a contemporary landscape. Patricia Smith’s volume, Incendiary Art, confronts the role of witness regarding tyrannies against the black male body and the tenacious grief of mothers.

Political commentator Van Jones offers a blueprint for transforming our collective anxiety into meaningful change, in Beyond the Messy Truth: How We Came Apart, How We Come Together. 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 may come to the ...

Gin Phillips’s Fierce Kingdom is an electrifying book about the primal and unyielding bond between a mother and her son, and the lengths she’ll go to protect him. Hannah Tinti’s The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley is a coming-of-age literary thrill ride about the price we pay to protect the people we love most.

Chantel Acevedo’s latest work of historical fiction, The Living Infinite, is based on the true story of the Spanish princess Eulalia, an outspoken firebrand at the Bourbon court during the troubled and decadent final years of her family's reign. Cristina García's novel, Here in Berlin, is a portrait of a city through snapshots, an excavation of the stories and ghosts ...

Free Bass: A live freestyle improvisation with Afrobeta. Everyone is invited to rock the mic! Improvisation is a social activity and it can create a collective story when a group is passing around the mic and sharing. The space created encourages listening and immediacy because you have to listen to the beat and be in the moment to think on ...

Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich’s memoir, The Fact of a Body, is the story of how a crime was constructed—and how we grapple with our own personal histories.

Attorney Alan Bell's illness leads him to the fight of—and for—his life, in Poisoned: How a Crime-Busting Prosecutor Turned His Medical Mystery into a Crusade for Environmental Victims. In his work of speculative nonfiction, Another Fine Mess: Life on Tomorrow's Moon, Pope Brock asks: if we’re given a second chance on the moon, will we use it to create at ...

A washed-up ex-journalist looking for a missing girl in San Francisco is framed by a Guatemalan hit man for a series of murders, in Bradley Spinelli's crime thriller, The Painted Gun. In Robert Arellano’s Havana Lunar, Dr. Mano Rodriguez takes an undercover assignment to the most dangerous city in Latin America: Miami.

Jared Beck and Pamela Miner present River and Road: Fort Myers Architecture from Craftsman to Modern, a visual and narrative history of the architectural evolution and urban development of Southwest Florida as shown in Fort Myers, Florida. Sponsored by:

Marcia Kadanoff, co-author of Maker City: A Practical Guide for Reinventing American Cities, a comprehensive collection of case studies and how-to information useful for city leaders, civic innovators, nonprofits, and others engaged in urban economic development. In conversation with Ric Herrero, founder of MANO, co-producer of Maker Faire Miami. Sponsored by:

Janet Capron's memoir, Blue Money, is an intimate, no-holds-barred portrait of her experiences as a prostitute in early-70s New York City. My Fair Junkie: A Memoir of Getting Dirty and Staying Clean is Amy Dresner's darkly funny and revealing debut memoir of her twenty-year battle with sex, drugs, and alcohol addiction, and what happens when she finally emerges on the ...

C. Morgan Babst's debut novel, The Floating World, is a dazzling story of family, home, and grief, which takes readers into the heart of Hurricane Katrina. Laura Lee Smith's novel, The Ice House, follows the beleaguered MacKinnons as they weather the possible loss of the family business, a serious medical diagnosis, and the slings and arrows of familial discord.

Obama: An Intimate Portrait is the definitive visual biography of Barack Obama's historic Presidency, captured in unprecedented detail by his White House photographer, Pete Souza—featuring a foreword from the President himself. The collection reproduces Souza's most iconic photographs, some of which have never been published. These photographs document the most consequential hours of the Presidency—Including the historic image of President ...

Jefferson Morley’s biography, The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton, tells the story of one of the most powerful unelected officials in the United States government in the mid-20th century. Nicholas Reynolds’s biography, Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy, tells the stunning untold story of Ernest Hemingway's dangerous secret life –including his role as a Soviet agent code-named ...

Victor Hernandez Cruz—two time World Heavyweight Poetry Champion—presents his latest collection, Beneath the Spanish, which tracks the way that languages intersect and inform each other, and how language and music shapes experience. Sponsored by:

Whether you're planning a romantic picnic for two, a child's birthday party, a holiday gathering, or a simple weeknight family dinner, Lidia Bastianich's Lidia's Celebrate Like an Italian: 220 Foolproof Recipes That Make Every Meal a Party will have you calling to your guests: "Tutti a tavola a mangiare!" Sponsored by:

Edwidge Danticat’s memoir, The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story, is at once a personal account of her mother dying from cancer and a deeply considered reckoning with the ways that other writers have approached death in their own work.

A meld of Johann Sebastian Bach with folk rhythms from Venezuela. Sponsored by

In Pen Center USA-award winner Victor Lodato's novel, Edgar and Lucy, a boy with his mysterious, tragic past begins a journey into a secret wilderness where nothing is clear, not even the line between the living and the dead. Jenny Zhang’s Sour Heart: Stories is a sly debut story collection that conjures the experience of adolescence through the eyes of ...

En français, avec interprétation simultanée en anglais/In French, with simultaneous interpretation into English Dans le cadre de ReadCaribbean, une série très appréciée de présentations se déroulant toute l’année, cette table ronde (stoïque, provocante, parfois gênante, mais certainement enthousiasmante) porte sur la littérature et l’histoire caribéennes. Divers auteurs d’Haïti, de la Guadeloupe, de la Martinique et de la Guyane Française discuteront ...

Woman Walk the Line: How the Women in Country Music Changed Our Lives, edited by Nashville-based writer and artist development consultant Holly Gleason, presents deeply personal essays from award-winning writers on femme fatales, feminists, groundbreakers, and truth tellers. Gleason is joined by Atlantic recording artist, Aubrie Sellers, and Wendy Pearl, former Director of Communications at the Country Music Association.

Following the death of Eileen Myles’s beloved pit-bull Rosie, Myles launches a heartfelt and fabulist investigation into the true nature of the bond between pet and pet-owner, in Afterglow (a dog memoir).

In Bad Guys, Bullets, and Boat Chases: True Stories of Florida Game Wardens, former water and land patrol officer Bob H. Lee reveals that the life of a game warden is a lot more exciting—and dangerous—than most people think. In Before the Pioneers: Indians, Settlers, Slaves, and the Founding of Miami, FSU history professor Andrew K. Frank pieces together the ...

In Carl Hiaasen's Razor Girl, a lovely and loveable con woman and a disgraced detective team up to find a redneck reality TV star. In Testimony, Scott Turow returns with a page-turning legal thriller about an American prosecutor's investigation of a refugee camp's mystifying disappearance. Sponsored by: At this time, there are currently no tickets available for this presentation. If you ...

Storyteller and playwright James Judd's collection, Now I Know: Essays and Monologues, gathers together eleven of his Snap Judgment stories featuring "spectacular public embarrassments and utter failures."

In William Heffernan’s The Scientology Murders: A Dead Detective Novel, Detective Harry Doyle's murder investigation forces him to penetrate one of the most private institutions in the country in order to track down those responsible. Inspired by an actual case, James Grippando's Most Dangerous Place: A Jack Swyteck Novel, explores the fine line between victim and perpetrator, innocence and guilt, ...

A powerful narrative and a brilliant defense of American values, Russell Shorto's Revolution Song makes the compelling case that the American Revolution is still being fought today and that its ideals are worth defending. Richly illustrated and meticulously researched, David Baron's American Eclipse: A Nation's Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the ...

Alex Daly, a crowdfunding expert who has raised over $20 million for her clients' campaigns, shows you how to get it done, in The Crowdsourceress: Get Smart, Get Funded, and Kickstart Your Next Big Idea. CEO consultant Helen Rothberg’s The Perfect Mix: Everything I know About Leadership I Learned as a Bartender reveals memorable insights about leadership developed while she worked ...

Tongo Eisen-Martin is a revolutionary poet influenced by poets such as Gil Scott-Heron, Allen Ginsberg, and Audre Lorde. In Heaven is All Goodbyes, politics, surrealism, and spiritualism converge with gangsterism, revolution, and perseverance in poems addressing state violence, police brutality, the prison industrial-complex, as experienced by African Americans throughout history. In conversation with author and journalist Kathie Klarreich.

Today, media are struggling to maintain credibility as they cover everything from local breaking news to a combative White House that has weaponized criticism of the media. In response, some journalists have positioned themselves as both objective truth-tellers and advocates for the communities they serve, two sides of the journalism coin that supposedly cannot coexist. The credibility gap between media ...

Bethany Ball's debut novel, What To Do About The Solomons, is a hilarious multigenerational family saga set in Israel, New York, and Los Angeles that explores the secrets and gossip-filled lives of a kibbutz community near Jerusalem. Laura Davis Hubers's novel, The Velveteen Daughter, reveals the true story of the author of one of the most beloved children's books of ...

Jeffrey Eugenides' story collection, Fresh Complaint, presents characters in the midst of personal and national emergencies, including a poet turned embezzler, and a clavichord player whose dreams founder under the obligations of marriage and fatherhood.

M. Evelina Galang’s Lolas’ House tells the stories, in unprecedented detail, of sixteen surviving Filipino "comfort women," kidnapped by the Imperil Japanese Army during World War II and forced into sexual slavery. In Survivor Café: The Legacy of Trauma and the Labyrinth of Memory, Elizabeth Rosner depicts the efforts to understand the intergenerational inheritance of trauma, as well as the ...

Writing Class Radio creators and hosts, Andrea Askowitz and Allison Langer, bring the podcast out of the studio for some on-the-spot verbal/musical improvisation. Based on a prompt, you’ll tell a story, then listen to what a musician has to “say” about it. It’s call and response like you’ve never heard! Sponsored by

Bhu Srinivasan’s Americana: A 400-Year History of American Capitalism is a thrilling alternative history of modern America that reframes events, trends, and people we thought we knew through the prism of the value that this nation holds dearest: capitalism. Jack Davis’s The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea colorfully reinstates the Gulf region within the American narrative—from the age ...

Laddee Hubbard's The Talented Ribkins, in which Johnny Ribkins must draw on his family’s unusual collection of superpowers to save himself from the mobster whose money he’s stolen. Simeon Marsallis's As Lie Is to Grin is a trippy and transgressive tale that bends the recognizable world in startling ways to broaden our understanding of what it means to be young, ...

Dan Wakefield is editor of Kurt Vonnegut: Complete Stories, a collection of Vonnegut’s short fiction, including five never before published stories. Jim Shepard’s short story collection The World to Come offers ten stories that span borders and centuries with unrivaled mastery.

Award-winning cookbook author, Cree LeFavour's debut memoir is Lights On, Rats Out, an exploration of her early twenties when she, as a graduate student in psychology, habitually burned herself with cigarettes, then developed an intimate relationship with her psychiatrist. In The Mighty Franks, former Los Angeles Times book critic Michael Frank presents the story of his eccentric Hollywood family, especially ...

Shara McCallum’s fifth poetry book, Madwoman, explores the world of relationships, race, and colonialism through the lens of her Jamaican womanhood. Canouan Suite and Other Pieces reflects Philip Nanton’s storytelling humor, setting text in creative tension with Caribbean artwork. In Voices Carry, Mervyn Taylor presents poems that travelers unpack like suitcases from Pakistan, Haiti, Jamaica, and Trinidad, far from what ...

Alex Segura's latest book in the Pete Fernandez Miami Mystery Series is Dangerous Ends, which pushes Pete Fernandez into a battle with a deadlier, more complex threat, as he tries to shake off the demons haunting Miami's own, sordid past. Lightwood is Steph Post’s story of a man caught in a complicated web of thievery, brutality and betrayal. Simone Kelly's ...

Victor LaValle’s novel, The Changeling, is a dark fairy tale of New York, in which a father quest for his wife and child takes him to a forgotten island, a graveyard full of secrets, a forest where immigrant legends still live, and finally back to a place he thought he had lost forever. Lisa Ko's powerful debut, winner of the ...

Bob Kealing's Elvis Ignited: The Rise of an Icon in Florida follows the performer through his four transformative and tumultuous Florida tours in fifteen months spanning 1955-1956. In A People's History of Overtown Vol. 1, and Inside the Music Biz with Henry Stone Jake Katel brings a once-vibrant district of Miami back to life through the voices of those who ...

In Jessica Shattuck’s novel, The Women in the Castle, the widow of a resister murdered in a failed assassination attempt on Adolph Hitler plans to uphold the promise she made to her husband’s brave conspirators: to find and protect their wives. Rachel Kadish's The Weight of Ink is a sophisticated work of historical fiction about women separated by centuries, and ...

In his refreshingly honest memoir, Thanks, Obama: My Hopey, Changey White House Years, former presidential speechwriter David Litt brings us inside Obamaworld. The People Are Going to Rise Like the Waters Upon Your Shore is Jared Yates Sexton’s firsthand account of the events that shaped the 2016 presidential election and powered Donald Trump into the White House.

Christmas comes early to The Fair with The Man Who Invented Christmas, distributed by Bleecker Street, and coming to theaters everywhere starting Wednesday, November 22nd. The film tells the story of how a broke and desperate Charles Dickens came to write and publish A Christmas Carol, the masterpiece that transformed Christmas into the merry family event we celebrate today. Don’t ...

Uma Galera embodies the melting pot of cultures and sounds of Miami—from ska to funk to latin—sometimes all in the same song! Sponsored by

Award-winning Producer/Director of the documentary on James Baldwin, I Am Not Your Negro, Raoul Peck, in conversation with Edwidge Danticat, Yanick Lahens, and Russell Banks on Haiti and the photography of Thony Belizaire.

A young boy’s murder unleashes chaos in the life of a schoolteacher and a small New England town in Patricia A. Smith's novel A Year of Needy Girls. Rivers Solomon’s novel An Unkindness of Ghosts, follows the journey of a girl on antiquated space vessel she is desperate to escape, that is ferrying the last fragments of humanity to a ...

Christopher M. Finan presents a social history of alcoholism in the United States, from the seventeenth century to the present day, in Drunks: An American History. In Jewish Comedy: A Serious History, Jeremy Dauber traces the origins of Jewish comedy and its development from biblical times to the age of Twitter.

Drug and alcohol treatment specialist Ben Cort presents the potential downside of getting high legally, in Weed, Inc.: The Truth About the Pot Lobby, THC, and the Commercial Marijuana Industry.

It’s Ted Talk meets happy hour! Developed by Eric Thurm, writers, comics, and artists have a few (okay, maybe more than a few), then present slideshows about stuff they’re really into. Featuring: George O'Connor, Denise Duhamel, Hanif Abdurraqib, and Roxanna Elden. Sponsored by

Set in Harlem and Brooklyn, social justice advocate Khary Lazarre-White's first novel, Passages, tells the story of Warrior, a young black man living in a world where nothing is safe, not even his mind, which is haunted by the spirits of ancestors and of the demons of the system of oppression.

The funny poignant essays in Ada Calhoun’s Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give explore the bedrooms of modern coupledom for a nuanced discussion of infidelity, existential anxiety, and the many other obstacles to staying together. Dani Shapiro’s memoir, Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage, opens the door to her house, her marriage, and her heart, and invites us to witness her own marital ...

Exactly 30 years ago, Miami New Times was born in a tiny office on South Beach. One of the aims of its founders was to publish long-form, narrative stories that would make a difference and provide a voice for the community. Surprise! It worked. Writers of magazine-length stories trained at the paper. They developed a variety of writing styles that ...

Former U.S. Poets Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winners Robert Hass and Charles Simic read from their latest books and discuss the necessity of poetry. In A Little Book on Form, Hass examines what makes a poem tick, and how the formal imagination actually operates in poetry. Scribbled in the Dark, Simic’s latest volume, is rich with his signature sardonic sense ...

Safia Elhillo’s The January Children mythologizes family histories until they break open, using them to explore aspects of Sudan’s history of colonial occupation, dictatorship, and diaspora. Magic City Gospel by Ashley M. Jones is a love song to Birmingham that takes readers on an historical, geographical, cultural, and personal journey through Alabama. In A Lesser Love, E. J. Koh’s poetry ...

Sixth in Wiliam C. Gordon's series of noir mysteries featuring newspaper reporter Samuel Hamilton, Unfinished confronts the question: how much hurt can be repaired when betrayal, kidnapping, and violence touch a person's life? Clownfish Blues, the latest installment of Tim Dorsey’s bestselling Serge A. Storm series, features Serge and company getting mixed up with villains who are gaming the Florida ...

Francine Klagsbrun presents the definitive biographer of one of the most notable women of our time, in Lioness: Golda Meir and the Nation of Israel, which brings to life the iron-willed leader, chain-smoking political operative, and tea-and-cake-serving grandmother who became the fourth prime minister of Israel. Jonathan Eig’s unauthorized biography, Ali: A Life, is a groundbreaking story about race, about ...

Roben Farzad's Hotel Scarface: Where Cocaine Cowboys Partied and Plotted to Control Miami tells the wild, true story of the Mutiny, the hotel and club that embodied the decadence of Miami’s cocaine cowboys heyday—and an inspiration for the blockbuster film, Scarface. In conversation with Billy Corben.

David Weisberg’s The American Plan is the inaugural volume of three-novel series chronicling the rise and fall of Sun Belt America, from the Korean War through the financial debacle of 2008. In Leni Bogat’s Murder in the House of the Muse, part of his Jeremy Wadlington-Smythe series, Jeremy, an accomplished orchestral conductor with a unique view of his mission, finds ...

Beverly Daniel Tatum, a renowned authority on the psychology of racism, argues that straight talk about our racial identities is essential in Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race. In Kent Spriggs’s, Voices of Civil Rights Lawyers: Reflections from the Deep South, 1964-1980, twenty-six lawyers reveal the abuses they endured and ...

In Florida Soul: From Ray Charles to KC and the Sunshine Band, John Capouya shows that Florida made valuable contributions to soul, on par with notable soul capitals Memphis, Detroit, Chicago, and Philadelphia. Join Capouya and a panel that includes producer and songwriter Willie Clarke of Miami's pioneering Deep City Records; singer Helene Smith, this city's first soul queen; Marlon Johnson, co-director of the documentary Deep City: The ...

Counter-terrorism expert Malcom Nance’s The Plot to Hack America: How Putin's Cyberspies and WikiLeaks Tried to Steal the 2016 Election examines how Putin’s spy agency used the promise of power to cultivate Donald Trump and his closest aides to become unwitting assets of the Russian government.

French Horn Collective plays gypsy jazz, swing, and original French music. C’est magnifique! Sponsored by

Come cook with Justin Fox Burks and find a new love for delicious dishes that just happen to be vegetarian, in The Chubby Vegetarian: 100 Inspired Vegetables for the Modern Table. Whether you’re a CrossFit enthusiast, a working mom, a weekend golfer—or even NBA star Dwyane Wade, Eating Well to Win: Inspired Living Through Inspired Cooking, by Chef Richard Ingraham, ...

Launched in 2016, Jitney Books is a new Miami micro-press with a bold vision of combining the talent of local artists and writers, and producing quality literature. Today, with revolutions in technology and online ordering, this might seem like an easy task. But the story behind the founding of Jitney Books—and that of the writers themselves—is one of struggle, complicated ...

Elizabeth Silver’s memoir, The Tincture of Time: A Memoir of (Medical) Uncertainty, is set against the unexplained stroke of the author’s newborn daughter and recounts her daughter’s first year. Hospice consultant and expert in quality of life at the end of life, Melanie P. Merriman, presents her poignant and timely memoir, Holding the Net: Caring for My Mother on the ...

Author of Black Hawk Down, Mark Bowden's Hue 1968 is the story of the the Tet Offensive, a turning point in the American War in Vietnam. Cultural commentator Kurt Andersen shows how "Fake News" is just the ultimate expression of our national character, in Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History. PURCHASE TICKETS TICKETS AVAILABLE MONDAY, NOVEMBER 6 AT ...

Marsha S. Bordner's presents the memoir of her husband, Harold H. Brown, in Keep Your Airspeed Up: The Story of a Tuskegee Airman, which recounts the journey of an African American man who, through dedication to his goals and vision, rose through the despair of racial segregation to great heights of accomplishment. Joe Starita's A Warrior of the People: How ...

In The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote, veteran investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson pulls back the curtain on the shady world of opposition research and reveals the dirty tricks those in power use to influence your opinion. Ken Stern’s memoir, Republican Like Me: How I Left the ...

Since 1990, South Florida Writers Association (SFWA) has provided a forum to encourage literary excellence among writers of all genres in the South Florida area. Don’t miss this showcase of local talent, all of whom are members of the SWFA. With Don Daniels, Rhyme and Punishment; Zorina Frey, Thecla: A Dark Romance; Steve Liebowitz, Devorah: Book One of the Covenant ...