In Investing in Income Properties: The Big Six Formula for Achieving Wealth in Real Estate, real estate guru Kenneth Rosen lays out the fundamentals for building real estate wealth.JFK and Bobby, Arnie and Jack...and David! opens with the riveting story of David Pearson's experience in the White House the night of November 22, 1963, as he was asked to help in the preparations for President John F. Kennedy’s funeral.

MICHAEL ISIKOFF’s and DAVID CORN’s Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin’s War on America and the Election of Donald Trump tells the incredible, harrowing account of how American democracy was hacked by Moscow as part of a covert operation to influence the U.S. election and help Donald Trump gain the presidency. TICKETS AVAILABLE OCTOBER 29, 2018 at 10 A.M. ...

Pamela Paul leads a conversation with Miami Book Fair presenting authors Jacqueline Woodson, Laura Lippman, Curtis Sittenfeld, and Andrew Sean Greer, based on her wildly beloved NYT’s column,  “By the Book.”

Abbi Jacobson’s I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff is a hilarious and poignant collection about love, loss, work, comedy, and figuring out who you really are when you thought you already knew. in conversation with Paul W. Downs of Comedy Central's Broad City.

The opiate crisis has made headlines across the country as journalists and editors seek to humanize the story of users and source the mountain of prescription drugs that are being consumed. Was the crack crisis covered differently? Did the race and social status of the users in each epidemic, and the urban vs. corporate manufacture of the drugs, impact the ...

In The Shallows, Stacey Lynn Brown explores complex legacies of family, race, and illness in the American South. At the core of Libby Burton’s Soft Volcano lie the marks of woe and time left upon the body after love is strained or abandoned. Jodie Hollander charts a story of familial understanding and reconciliation in My Dark Horses. Erika Meitner plumbs ...

A new twist on keto: The fat-burning power of ketogenic eating meets the clean green benefits of a plant-centric plate in Will Cole’s Ketotarian: The (Mostly) Plant-Based Plan to Burn Fat, Boost Your Energy, Crush Your Cravings, and Calm Inflammation. Celebrate the gorgeous and delicious possibilities of plant-based southern cuisine in Timothy Pakron’s Mississippi Vegan: Recipes and Stories from a ...

Alexander Chee’s How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays explores the author’s education as a man, writer, and activist — and how we form our identities in life and in art.  In conversation with essayist and journalist Garnette Cadogan.

Celebrate the 2018 National Book Award Nominees and Finalists in Fiction, in recognition of some of the most outstanding works of fiction published in the U.S. this year. Moderated by Ellen Book. Sponsored by

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In Fame, Justine Bateman examines this contemporary obsession, fed by entertainment shows, magazines, websites that report the latest sightings, heartbreaks, and triumphs of the famous to a seemingly insatiable public.

From Florida’s king of mayhem bestselling author Tim Dorsey—comes The Pope of Palm Beach: A Novel, a diabolically madcap adventure featuring the indomitable Serge A. Storms. When the body of the president of the pre-eminent black fraternity at the University of Florida, is discovered hogtied in the swamps of the Suwanee River Valley, the death sets off a firestorm that ...

Join MBF/de Groot Prize winner, MARCI VOGEL, and finalists, NIKI TULK and BRANDEN BOYER-WHITE, for this reading from their winning works. Vogel’s novella, Death and Other Holidays, was published this fall by Melville House. DENNIS JOHNSON and VALERIE MERIANS of Melville House; author JIM SHEPARD, judge for the MBF/de Groot Prize for Novella; and principals of de Groot Foundation, CHARLES ...

Bernice L. McFadden’s novel Praise Song for the Butterflies is a contemporary story that offers an eye-opening account of the practice of ritual servitude, and its toll on women, in West Africa. Ingrid Rojas Contreras’ Fruit of the Drunken Tree: A Novel is a mesmerizing debut set in Colombia at the height Pablo Escobar's violent reign about a sheltered young ...

In Simon Winchester’s The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World, the revered New York Times bestselling author traces the development of technology from the Industrial Age to the Digital Age to explore the single component crucial to advancement—precision. As psychologically thrilling as it is historically seminal, Stacy Schiff’s The Witches: Suspicion, Betrayal, and Hysteria in 1692 Salem unveils ...

We all know the classic heavy hitters in the superhero game — we’ve seen them time and time again in storylines new and old. We love them, but sometimes we just need something new. Join Gabby Rivera (America Chavez series) and Kwanza Osajyefo (Black AF: America’s Sweetheart) as they explore a refreshing vision for stories untold with new superheroes joining ...

Glory Edim’s Well-read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves is an inspiring collection of essays by black women writers, curated by the founder of the popular book club, Well-read Black Girl. Mahogany L. Browne, one of the editors behind The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 2: Black Girl Magic, presents some of the most exciting Black women writing today. 

With eloquence and fervor, Rebecca Traister tracks the history of female anger as political fuel in Good and Mad: How Women's Anger is Reshaping America. Mona Charen’s Sex Matters: How Modern Feminism Lost Touch with Science, Love, and Common Sense tracks the price we have paid for denying sex differences and stoking the war of the sexes.

Michael Ondaatje’s Warlight: A Novel is set in the decade after World War II and told through a small group of unexpected characters and two teenagers whose lives are indelibly shaped by their unwitting involvement. Sponsored by

Natalie Hopkinson’s book A Mouth Is Always Muzzled: Six Dissidents, Five Continents, and the Art of Resistance is a meditation in the spirit of John Berger and bell hooks on art as protest, contemplation, and beauty in politically perilous times.  Jessica Nydia Pabón-Colón’s Graffiti Grrlz reconsiders the intersections of feminism, hip hop, and youth performance and establishes graffiti art as ...

Celebrate the 2018 National Book Award Nominees and Finalists in Poetry, in recognition of some of the most outstanding poetry collections published in the U.S. this year. Moderated by Denise Duhamel.  Sponsored by

Exchange for Change give you the opportunity to address the absence of creative literacy programs in prisons. Come out and read pieces written (in Spanish and English) by currently incarcerated prisoners, then “exchange” your written or audio response to their work. Also, hear readings from the inaugural issue of Exchange for Change’s literary magazine, Don't Shake the Spoon. Sponsored by

Adam Gopnik’s At the Strangers' Gate: Arrivals in New York captures the romance of New York City in the 1980s. Daniel Mendelsohn’s memoir, An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic is a deeply moving tale of a father and son's transformative journey in reading—and reliving—Homer's epic masterpiece. TICKETS AVAILABLE OCTOBER 29, 2018 at 10 A.M. Click here to ...

The intersection of comics and medicine is creating one of the most exciting new genres for the graphic story. From navigating mental illness and physical disability to the epidemic of myths and misinformation around Big Pharma and public health, Rachel Lindsay (RX), Kriota Willberg (Draw Stronger), Liana Finck (Passing for Human). Moderated by Joan Hilty.  

Criminal psychologist Kieran Finnegan is accosted by a desperate woman who shoves an infant into her arms and then flees, only to be murdered minutes later in Heather Graham’s crime thriller A Dangerous Game. Former Congressman Steve Israel’s Big Guns: A Novel is a comic tale about the mighty firearm industry, a small Long Island town, and Washington politics.

From prizewinning journalist and immigration expert Alfredo Corchado, Homelands: Four Friends, Two Countries, and the Fate of the Great Mexican-American Migration tells the sweeping story of the great Mexican migration from the late 1980s to today. Laura Wides-Muñoz’s The Making of a Dream: How a group of young undocumented immigrants helped change what it means to be American examines the ...

Debra Dean’s Hidden Tapestry: Jan Yoors, His Two Wives, and the War That Made Them One, tells the remarkable true story of Belgian-American artist Jan Yoors— childhood vagabond, wartime resistance fighter, New York bohemian— and the two women who agreed to share his life. The Life of Saul Bellow: Love and Strife, 1965-2005 (Vol. 2) by Zachary Leader examines the ...

Deborah Baker’s The Last Englishmen: Love, War, and the End of Empire is a sumptuous biographical saga, both intimate and epic, about the waning of the British Empire in India.

In Alyson Hagy’s Scribe, with the country under civil war, a woman who barters letter-writing for supplies receives an unusual request for a letter from a man with hidden motives. Maria Dahvana Headley’s The Mere Wife: A Novel is a modern retelling of the literary classic Beowulf, set in American suburbia. Aaron Thier’s The World Is a Narrow Bridge is ...

Laura Valeri’s The Dead Still Here, a collection of short stories, is at once provocative and lucid, and offers various angles of characters looking for a relationship to hold. Set in Cuba mostly after the fall of the Soviet Union, the stories in Dariel Suarez’ A Kind of Solitude explore the themes of isolation and perseverance.  Adrian Todd Zuniga’s Collision ...

In If You See Me, Don't Say Hi: Stories Neel Patel gives voice to our most deeply held stereotypes about first generation Indian Americans and then slowly undermines them. In the nine expansive, searching stories of Jamel Brinkley’s A Lucky Man, fathers and sons attempt to salvage relationships with friends and family members and confront mistakes made in the past. ...

The founders never anticipated a realpolitik in which the most powerful man in America is a reality TV star with autocratic impulses, kleptocratic policies, and an itchy Twitter finger. What role should citizens of good faith play when confronted by a leader who neither understands, nor abides by, the rule of law? This will be a spirited and provocative conversation ...

Three bestselling masters of mythology discuss the power of the graphic story to tell old tales in new ways. Join Jaime Hernandez (The Dragon Slayer), George O'Connor (The Olympians), and Johnnie Christmas (Angel Catbird, Firebug).  Moderated by Madeline Miller. 

The Remyz performs a fusion of funk and blues by a group of local talented young musicians with jazz, R&B, and gospel roots. Sponsored by

It's the summer of 1894, and an infidelity case has brought PI Mary Handley to a far corner of Brooklyn: Coney Island in Lawrence H. Levy’s Last Stop in Brooklyn: A Mary Handley Mystery. In Eileen Pollack’s The Bible of Dirty Jokes, when Ketzel Weinrach’s beloved brother Potsie goes missing in Las Vegas, she not only must try to find ...

Gabriell Birkner’s and Rebecca Soffer’s brutally honest and inspiring Modern Loss invites us to talk intimately and humorously about grief, helping us confront the humanity (and mortality) we all share.

In Varina: A Novel, Charles Frazier returns to the time and place of Cold Mountain, vividly bringing to life the chaos and devastation of the Civil War.

A young Swedish immigrant finds himself penniless and alone in California in Hernan Diaz’s historical novel, In the Distance.  A finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in fiction, Diaz will be in conversation with novel and short story master, Jim Shepherd.

People often say that poetry is dead, but these four Florida authors prove that poetry is very much alive and well. P. Scott Cunningham explores contradiction and revelation in Ya Te Veo, remixing everything from Garth Brooks to Wu-Tang Clan. The poems in Steve Kronen’s Homage to Mistress Oppenheimer tackle the spaces between science and God, between the apocalyptic and ...

In The Incomplete Book of Running, Peter Sagal, the popular game show host of NPR’s Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me shares lessons, stories, advice, and warnings gleaned from running the equivalent of once around the earth.

Jonah Goldberg’s Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics is Destroying American Democracy argues that for the West to survive, we must renew our sense of gratitude for what our civilization has given us and rediscover the ideals that led us out of the bloody muck of the past – or back to ...

Celebrate the 2018 National Book Award Nominees and Finalists in Nonfiction, in recognition of some of the most outstanding works of nonfiction published in the U.S. this year. Moderated by Fernand Amandi. Sponsored by

Unloved and unwanted in civilized society, the Bastards eke out a hard life in the desolate no-man's-land called the Lots in Jonathan French’s The Grey Bastards: A Novel. In I Find Your Lack of Faith Disturbing: Star Wars and the Triumph of Geek Culture, A. D. Jameson takes geeks and non-geeks alike on a surprising and insightful journey through the science ...

Joe Clifford’s novel The One That Got Away is a dark, psychological thriller, featuring a compelling, conflicted heroine and a page-turning narrative that races toward its final, shocking conclusion. Teresa Dovalpage’s novel Death Comes in Through the Kitchen is set in Havana during the Black Spring of 2003, a charming but poison-laced culinary mystery reveals the darker side of the ...

Mark Eisner’s Neruda: The Poet's Calling is the most definitive biography to date of the poet Pablo Neruda, a moving portrait of one of the most intriguing and influential figures in Latin American history. In conversation with Thad Ziolkowski, Associate Director of The Leon Levy Center for Biography.

Jamie Quatro’s Fire Sermon is a tour de force that charts with bold intimacy and immersive sensuality the life of a married woman in the grip of a magnetic affair. R.O. Kwon’s The Incendiaries: A Novel is a powerful, darkly glittering novel of violence, love, faith, and loss, as a young woman at an elite American university is drawn into ...

All life stories are unique, but when your origin tale sometimes seems too strange for words, how do you tell it? Whether it’s being a quiz-show prodigy, searching for your cat and your soul, learning human connection from your shadow, or transitioning gender, Michael Kupperman (All the Answers), Maggie Thrash (Lost Soul Be At Peace), Liana Finck (Passing for Human), ...

Dr. Laurie Nadel’s The Five Gifts: Discovering Hope, Healing and Strength When Disaster Strikes is like an emergency “Go-Kit” for the mind, packed with information and insight that can minimize and prevent long-term psycho-spiritual damage from a traumatic event.

In Rochelle Weinstein’s novel, Somebody’s Daughter, a private and humiliating indiscretion goes viral and thrusts a seemingly perfect family into the center of a shocking public scandal. Laura Lippman meets Megan Abbott in Lauren Doyle Owens’ The Other Side of Everything: A Novel, a suspenseful literary debut about three generations of neighbors whose lives intersect in the aftermath of a ...

Sekajipo for the People delivers powerful acoustic hip hop that melds poetry, storytelling, and live music. Sponsored by

In her most recent book, Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War, Karen Abbott, tells the spellbinding true story of four women — a socialite, a farm girl, an abolitionist, and a widow — who risked everything to become spies during the Civil War.  Gregory J. Wallance’s The Woman Who Fought an Empire tells the improbable ...

Ivy & Bean are back! Worried about becoming a spoiled only child, Ivy needs a baby sister, quick! Luckily, Ivy and Bean know just where to get one in Annie Barrows’ One Big Happy Family. Judy Moody discovers that she might have royal blood! But what to do about those other pesky family secrets? Find out in Meghan McDonald’s Judy Moody and ...

The Obama White House staff invites us behind-the-scenes of history for a deeply personal and moving look at the presidency and how a president's staff can change the nation in West Wingers: Stories from the Dream Chasers, Change Makers, and Hope Creators Inside the Obama White House. With contributors Rumana Ahmed, Julie Chavez Rodriguez, Cecilia Muñoz, and Stephanie Valencia.

David Grann’s The White Darkness tells a powerful true story of adventure and obsession in the Antarctic. The master of legal fiction, John Grisham, presents The Reckoning, which ranges from the Jim Crow South to the jungles of the Philippines during World War II; from an insane asylum filled with secrets to the courtroom where a killer’s defense attorney will ...

With unforgettably vivid characters, mesmerizing language and page-turning suspense, Madeline Miller’s Circe is an intoxicating epic of family rivalry, palace intrigue, love and loss, as well as a celebration of indomitable female strength in a man's world. In Emily Wilson’s fresh, authoritative version of the first English translation of The Odyssey by a woman, this stirring tale of shipwrecks, monsters, ...

The seductive pull of love — it’s an endlessly powerful force in literature, creating some of the funniest, bleakest, and most haunting scenarios we can imagine as writers and artists. Pull up a chair with Dean Haspiel and Jonathan Ames (The Alcoholic) and Nate Powell (Come Again) to find out what dark beasts lie on the edges of desire. Moderated ...

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 for Poetry, which ensures bilingual publication for a book of poems written in Spanish. ...

What If This Were Enough?: Essays by Heather Havrilesky is an impassioned collection tackling our obsession with self-improvement and urging readers to embrace the imperfections of the everyday. In Joyful: The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Extraordinary Happiness, designer and TED star Ingrid Fetell Lee explains how to cultivate a happier, healthier life by making small changes to ...

Powerhouse reggae band Jahfe reflects Miami’s diverse music scene. Sponsored by

We all know now that comics aren’t JUST for kids anymore. But what about comics that are distinctly… adult? Join purveyors of the finest “sexy” comics, Sarah Mirk (Open Earth), Ryan Maniulit (Hardwire & Friction), EdMo (NSFW) and Jess Fink (Chester 5000) as they talk to you about what makes comics the perfect medium for porn, how they got their ...

The task of the biographer is to resurrect the dead–or so we think–to bring back to life a figure who has receded from our consciousness. This has been the life’s work of two of our most distinguished biographers. Stacy Schiff has reached back (with the exception of her book on Vera Nabokov) to the remote reaches of time, from Cleopatra ...

In Dustin Parsons Exploded View: Essays on Fatherhood & Work with Figures & Graphs “graphic” essays play with the conventions of telling a life story and with how illustration and text work together in print. In Furnishing Eternity: A Father, a Son, a Coffin, and a Measure of Life, David Giffels confronts mortality, survives loss, and finds resilience through an ...

As things are just starting to look up for two teenage boys, a chain of events alters their understanding of love, friendship, and fate in Kwame Alexander’s latest YA book, Swing. Jacqueline Woodson's children’s book The Day You Begin reminds us that we all feel like outsiders sometimes—and how brave it is that we go forth anyway. Sponsored by

In bestselling and Emmy-nominated writer George Pelecanos' "taut and suspenseful" new novel, The Man Who Came Uptown, an ex-offender must choose between the man who got him out and the woman who showed him another path. In conversation with award-winning book critic for the Washington Post, Ron Charles.

A young Swedish immigrant finds himself penniless and alone in California in Hernan Diaz’s novel, In the Distance, a finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in fiction. As the first wave of pioneers travel westward to settle the American frontier, two women discover their inner strength when their lives are irrevocably changed by the hardship of the wild west in ...

What is the role of the writer under the present conditions, both nationally and globally? These three writers discuss how they grapple with America in the world, and their commitment to exploring literature from a social justice viewpoint. A conversation with Tom Sleigh, John Freeman,Edwidge Danticat and Ru Freeman. Moderated by Tom Sleigh.

Ada Calhoun’s Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give is a collection of seven essays celebrating the beauty of the imperfect marriage. Fueled by urgency and the emotional intensity of Kim Brooks’s own story, Small Animals: Parenthood in the Age of Fear, is a riveting examination of the ways our culture of competitive, anxious, and judgmental parenting has profoundly altered the experiences of parents ...

Edward Tenner’s The Efficiency Paradox questions our ingrained assumptions about efficiency, persuasively showing how relying on the algorithms of digital platforms can in fact lead to wasted efforts. In Creating Things That Matter: The Art and Science of Innovations That Last, David Edwards—world-renowned inventor and Harvard professor of the practice of idea translation—reveals that the secret to creating things of ...

A Theory of Love: A Novel by Margaret Bradham Thornton draws on a metaphor of entanglement theory to ask: when two people collide, are they forever attached no matter where they are? Lady Be Good marks Amber Brock's mesmerizing return, sweeping readers into the world of the mischievous, status-obsessed daughter of a hotel magnate and the electric nightlife of three ...

Combat Hippies perform a stage reading of their current production, AMAL, a theater/spoken word piece that reveals the impact of war on combatants and noncombatants, shares experiences of veterans’ adjustment to life after war, and those of civilians from war-torn countries. Sponsored by

In three dazzling new works of New York City history, Pete Tomasi (The Bridge), and Ted Fox and James Otis Smith (Showtime at the Apollo) reveal the amazing true stories of the Brooklyn Bridge, the Apollo Theater, and the endlessly changing visual and cultural landscape of the Big Apple. Moderated by Joan Hilty. 

Founder of the international movement, Daybreaker, Radha Agrawal presents Belong: Find Your People, Create Community, and Live a More Connected Life, a creative blueprint for bringing this most important dimension back into our lives. Born of moral indignation, informed by decades of study, and seasoned by a life of devoted self-cultivation, Monk Yun Rou’s Mad Monk Manifesto has the answers ...

Mark Leibovich‘s Big Game: The NFL in Dangerous Times is a merciless probing of America's biggest cultural force, pro football. We Matter: Athletes and Activism features interviews by former NBA star Etan Thomas with over fifty athletes, executives, media figures, and more. In Against Football, Steve Almond details why, after forty years as a fan, he can no longer watch ...

A provocative and deeply moving account from one of the most compelling religious thinkers at work today, Elaine Pagels’s Why Religion? explores the spiritual dimension of human experience. TICKETS AVAILABLE OCTOBER 29, 2018 at 10 A.M. Click here to purchase tickets! Free tickets will be required for admission to this presentation. Seating with a ticket is on a “first come, ...

Fatimah Asghar’s If They Come for Us grapples with questions of sexuality, race, violence, and healing. Marcelo Hernandez Castillo examines the fallout of immigration, the illusion of the American dream, and the latent anxieties of living in a queer brown undocumented body in Cenzontle. Tiana Clark delves in to the physical and psychic traumas of the South through personal and ...

Rudy Rucker presents his wondrous and epic speampunk phenomenon, The Hollow Earth. Christopher G. White analyzes how writers, artists, filmmakers, televangelists, and others have used the scientific idea of invisible dimensions to make supernatural phenomena such as ghosts and miracles seem more reasonable in Other Worlds: Spirituality and the Search for Invisible Dimensions. Adam Frank tells the story of humanity’s ...

Proud: My Fight for an Unlikely American Dream by Ibtihaj Muhammad is a memoir from the first African American Muslim to win an Olympic medal for fencing.

In Brad Meltzer’s The Escape Artist, a man goes on a quest to locate his daughter’s friend who was reportedly killed in a mysterious plane crash, but is discovered to be alive, and in peril. Now a major motion picture starring Joaquin Phoenix, Jonathan Ames’s You Were Never Really Here is a toxic shot of a thriller, laced with corruption, ...

Ron Stallworth’s Black Klansman is an amazing true story that reads like a crime thriller, and a searing portrait of a divided America. R.J. Young's Let It Bang: A Young Black Man’s Reluctant Odyssey Into Guns explores the quest, funny and searing, of a young black man learning to shoot—a fascinating odyssey into race, guns, and self-protection in America.

Visionary Women: How Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters Changed Our World, by Andrea Barnet. Moderated by Miriam Pawel.

University presses play a vital role in book publishing, but many people don’t know how their work differs from that of larger publishers. University press directors and authors will talk about how UPs strive to amplify voices, disciplines, and communities of diverse types. University presses publish authors from around the world and right here at home in southern Florida, writing ...

Celebrate the 2018 National Book Award Nominees and Finalists in Translated Literature, in recognition of some of the most outstanding works of translated literature published in the U.S. this year. Moderated by Marci Vogel. Sponsored by

Enrique Fernández’s Pretty to Think So weaves questions of sex, mortality, and identity with a lyricism that readers will not soon forget. Fernandez’s Cortadito: Wanderings through Cuban Cuisine is a dissertation on Cuban cuisine seen through the author's memories of growing up in pre-revolutionary Cuba and learning the meaning and importance of the food and cooking of one’s roots.

Virginia Sole-Smith’s The Eating Instinct: Food Culture, Body Image, and Guilt in America is an exploration, both personal and deeply reported, of how we learn to eat in today’s toxic food culture.

Surf rock and crazy good times from the best thing to come out of Key West - Patrick & the Swayzees. Sponsored by

The Waves is Slate's show about gender, feminism, relationships, politics, culture, news, and cats. Each week hosts Hanna Rosin, Noreen Malone, Christina Cauterucci, and others talk through the week's news and culture as seen through the lens of gender and feminism. The hosts will be joined by special guests Rebecca Traister and Celest Ng, as well as leading writers and thinkers ...