Miami Book Fair and the Geek Girl Brunch Miami chapter team up for a Sunday brunch like no other. Grab a mimosa, your best superhero outfit, and get geeky over books and bacon with a visiting comics author. This exclusive event is for the coolest geeks out there and you can be one too! For more information on Miami’s Geek Girl ...

A trained helper monkey is bought in to assist a successful architect paralyzed in a car accident and haunted by the death of his young assistant in Katharine Weber’s Still Life With Monkey: A Novel. Deborah Eisenberg’s stories gently compel us to confront the most disturbing truths about ourselves in Your Duck Is My Duck: Stories.

The BreakBeat Poets: Black Girl Magic edited by Mahogany L. Browne, focuses on some of the most exciting Black women writing today, breaking up the myth of hip-hop as a boys’ club and asserting the truth that the cypher is a feminine form. In Bullets into Bells: Poets & Citizens Respond to Gun Violence compiled by Brian Clements, poems focusing ...

The Case Against Impeaching Trump seeks to reorient the debate over impeachment to the same standard that Alan Dershowitz has continued to uphold for decades: the law of the United States of America, as established by the Constitution. David A. Kaplan’s The Most Dangerous Branch: Inside the Supreme Court's Assault on the Constitution takes us inside the secret world of ...

In My Baseball Journey, Felipe Alou and journalist Peter Kerasotis recount Alou’s journey from a tiny shack in the Dominican Republic to becoming the first Dominican to play and manage in major league baseball.

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Martin Amado’s One-Day Room Makeovers: How to Get the Designer Look for Less with Three Easy Steps is the ultimate guide to creating a gorgeous home that reflects your best, most beautiful self.

Tal Keinan’s God Is in the Crowd: Twenty-First Century Judaism is a bold proposal for discovering relevance in Judaism and ensuring its survival, from a pioneering social activist, business leader, and fighter pilot in the Israeli Air Force.

Ben Fountain’s Beautiful Country Burn Again: Democracy, Rebellion, and Revolution is a sweeping work of reportage set over the course of 2016, that recounts a surreal year of politics. James Miller’s Can Democracy Work?: A Short History of a Radical Idea, from Ancient Athens to Our World is a  new history of the world’s most embattled idea. Rendezvous with Oblivion: ...

Meg Cabot’s Royal Crown: From the Notebooks of a Middle-School Princess is a new spinoff of the popular Princess Diaries YA book series.

From the National Book Award finalist Elliot Ackerman, comes Waiting for Eden, a breathtakingly spare and shattering new novel that traces the intersection of three star-crossed lives. In Gone So Long: A Novel, by Andre Dubus III, a father, estranged for the worst of reasons, is driven to seek out the daughter he has not seen in decades. Leif Enger’s ...

Glynnis MacNicol embarks on a revealing journey of self-discovery that continually contradicts everything she’d been led to expect about her fortieth year in the memoir No One Tells You This: A Memoir. Tessa Fontaine's astonishing memoir of pushing past fear, The Electric Woman, follows the author on a life-affirming journey of loss and self-discovery through her time on the road with the last traveling American sideshow and her relationship with an adventurous, ...

Les Standiford and his book Center of Dreams to the following pairing: Jim Ross, In Season: Stories of Discovery, Loss, Home, and Places in Between; Julie Hauserman, Drawn to the Deep: The Remarkable Underwater Explorations of Wes Skiles; and Jose Manuel Garcia, Voices from Mariel: Oral Histories of the 1980 Cuban Boatlift. Sponsored by

Blain Roberts’s and Ethan J. Kytle’s Denmark Vesey's Garden: Slavery and Memory in the Cradle of the Confederacy is a deeply researched book that uncovers competing histories of how slavery is remembered in Charleston, South Carolina—the heart of Dixie. Tera W. Hunter’s Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century is the first comprehensive history of ...

Bob Eckstein on The Illustrated History of the Snowman and The World’s Greatest Bookstores: 100 Postcards, and Bob Mankoff, The New Yorker Encyclopedia of Cartoons: A Semi-serious A-to-Z Archive.

Beneath a Ruthless Sun: A True Story of Violence, Race, and Justice Lost and Found is the gripping true story of a small town with a big secret by Gilbert King. The Corporation: An Epic Story of the Cuban American Underworld by T.J. English is an epic story of gangsters, drugs, violence, sex, and murder rooted in the streets. When ...

Michael Beschloss’s Presidents of War is a fresh, magisterial, intimate look at a procession of American leaders as they took the nation into conflict and mobilized their country for victory. 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 ...

A Dedicated Life: Journalism, Justice and a Chance for Every Child is a memoir from a lifelong champion of children, David Lawrence, Jr., who became a leading national advocate for children and was instrumental in founding the Children's Movement of Florida. Sponsored by

FanTastic! Hoist your geek flag high at this reading of Miami’s best fanfiction. You might just bump into a fellow Jedi from Dagobah. Sponsored by

Mary Jo McConahay’s The Tango War: The Struggle for the Hearts, Minds and Riches of Latin America During World War II tells the gripping and little-known story of the fight for the allegiance of Latin America during World War II. Lisandro Perez’s Sugar, Cigars, and Revolution tells the dramatic story of the origins of the Cuban community in nineteenth-century New ...

John Leland’s Happiness Is a Choice You Make: Lessons from a Year Among the Oldest Old is an extraordinary look at what it means to grow old and a heartening guide to well-being. The End of Old Age: Living a Longer, More Purposeful Life, Dr. Marc Agronin, the acclaimed author of How We Age, presents a hopeful and practical model ...

Spirit of Place, the first published monograph of the work of Chad Oppenheim and his studio, takes the reader to a world where boundaries are blurred between nature and architecture, heightening our awareness of the beauty that surrounds us. In conversation with Cathy Leff.

Rena Rossner's debut fantasy, The Sisters of the Winter Wood invites you to enter a world filled with magic, folklore, and the dangers of the woods. Sam Miller’s sci-fi novel Blackfish City is a remarkably urgent tale of political corruption, organized crime, technology run amok, the consequences of climate change, gender identity, and the unifying power of human connection.

In Rebecca Serle’s captivating The Dinner List: A Novel, Sabrina arrives at her thirtieth birthday dinner to find not just her best friend, but also three significant people from her past, and well, Audrey Hepburn. Joanna Cantor’s Alternative Remedies for Loss is a slyly funny coming-of-age novel about a young woman fumbling her way into the mysteries of loss and ...

Webcomics USED to be about finding a way to break in to print, but nowadays the web is all you need to make a living AND tell stories that publishers think “don’t have a market.” Dean Haspiel (The Red Hook), Ngozi Ukazu (Check, Please), Carolyn Nowak (Girl Town), and Farel Dalrymple (It Will All Hurt) will talk about how they build ...

John Freeman’s Maps charts legacies of ruin and construction, illness and memory, empire and experience from Rio de Janeiro to Rome. Barbara Hamby hits the road hard in this contemporary Bird Odyssey, from Siberia to New Orleans with Elvis, Tolstoy, Homer, and more. Aimee Nezhukumatathil creates a thorough registry of the earth’s magic in Oceanic, studying the many forms of ...

Heirs of the Founders: The Epic Rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster by H.W. Brands chronicles the careers of three second-generation American founding fathers. Tom Clavin’s Valley Forge recounts perhaps the most underappreciated chapter in American history—the inspiring, account of the Continental Army winter camp where George Washington turned the tide of the American Revolution.

In A Kind of Mirraculas Paradise: A True Story About Schizophrenia Sandy Allen translates the autobiography of their schizophrenic uncle, artfully creating a gripping coming-of-age story that illuminates the experience of living with schizophrenia like never before. Jean Guerrero’s Crux: A Cross-Border Memoir explores a daughter’s quest to understand her charismatic and troubled father, an immigrant who crosses borders both ...

A Chicago reporter with a second job as undercover agent for the U.S. government, is officially in Paris doing a story on American ambulance drivers in the early days of WWI, but his intelligence handler, James Polk Trask, soon broadens his mission in Robert Olen Butler’s Paris in the Dark. B.A. Shapiro’s new novel The Collector’s Apprentice is an unforgettable tale ...

Celeste Ng’s novel, Little Fires Everywhere is a riveting novel that traces the intertwined fates of the picture-perfect Richardson family and the enigmatic mother and daughter who upend their lives. In Havana, Cuba, a widow tries to come to terms with her husband’s death in Laura van den Berg’s surreal story of psychological reflection and metaphysical mystery The Third Hotel: ...

Rowan Moore Gerety’s Go Tell the Crocodiles explores the efforts of ordinary people to provide for themselves where foreign aid, the formal economy, and the government have fallen short. In Squeezed: Why Our Families Can't Afford America, Alissa Quart examines the lives of many middle-class Americans who can now barely afford to raise children.

Tristram Korten’s Into the Storm: Two Ships, a Deadly Hurricane, and an Epic Battle for Survival tells the true story of two doomed ships and a daring search-and- rescue operation that shines a light on the elite Coast Guard swimmers trained for the most dangerous ocean missions. Eric Jay Dolin, Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America's Most Notorious ...

Barbara Young, Brett Sokol, Beth Dunlop and Francesco Casale on Robert Huff: Cross Section, a book, with essay by Beth Dunlop, that offers a cross section of the drawings, paintings, sculpture and public artworks of Miami-based artist. Robert Huff. In Huff's work, love of the natural world and the man-made world are juxtaposed. His passion for "place" turned to genuine concern for the environment ...

Jon Michael Varese’s The Spirit Photographer is a stunning novel of historical suspense about a charismatic conman haunted—perhaps literally—by a ghost from his past.

Come meet Ample Samples! Members of Suenalo, Afrobeta, Shenzi, Aaron Lebos Reality, PRD Mais and The Goodnites are led by OIGO's Adrian Gonzalez in an epic jam session that juxtaposes classic rock and pop songs with afrobeat and Caribbean rhythms. Sponsored by

James Mustich’s 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die moves across cultures and through time to present an eclectic collection of titles, each described with the special enthusiasm readers summon when recommending a book to a friend. The Joys of Travel: And Stories that Illuminate Them is a collection of Thomas Swick’s personal essays about what he has identified as ...

More than just a girl-centric comic series, Lumberjanes immediately garnered critical acclaim as an all-ages female-led and female-authored title packed with adventure and non-stop entertainment. Join co-creator and Boom! editor Shannon Watters and contributing authors Gabby Rivera and Carolyn Nowak for a journey to Miss Qiunzella Thiskwin Penniquiqul Thistle Crumpet's Camp for Hardcore Lady Types as they explore all the ...

With a Cuban Song in the Heart features the artwork from 280 album covers from Iván Acosta's collection of over 5,000 long-playing discs. From unlikely images of historical newsmakers (Fidel Castro drinking a Coca-Cola on a public bus) to a roster of jet-setting celebrities, Ramiro Fernández’s Cuba Then is a welcome new edition of this seductive and lush photographic survey ...

Sarah Weinman’s nonfiction book The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel That Scandalized the World investigates the true crime that inspired Nabokov to write his classic novel. In conversation with Ron Charles.

The Improbable Wendell Willkie: The Businessman Who Saved the Republican Party and His Country, and Conceived a New World Order from David Levering-Lewis examines the life of influential politician Wendell Willkie. In conversation with Kai Bird, executive director of the Leon Levy Center for Biography.

Fatima Farheen Mirza’s A Place for Us is a deeply moving and resonant story of love, identity, and belonging. Lillian Li’s Number One Chinese Restaurant: A Novel is an exuberant and wise multigenerational debut novel about the complicated lives and loves of people working in everyone’s favorite Chinese restaurant. After the death of her beloved grandmother, a Cuban-American woman travels ...

Daniela Lamas’ You Can Stop Humming Now: A Doctor's Stories of Life, Death, and in Between contains beautifully crafted stories about what life is like for patients kept alive by modern medical technology. Dr. Sandeep Jauhar’s Heart: A History tells the colorful and little-known story of the doctors who risked their careers and the patients who risked their lives to ...

In Everything Trump Touches Dies: A Republican Strategist Gets Real About The Worst President Ever, Rick Wilson skewers the disease that is destroying the conservative movement and burning down the GOP: Trumpism. As nativism, xenophobia, vile racism, and assaults on the rule of law threaten the very fabric of our nation, Max Boot’s The Corrosion of Conservatism presents an urgent ...

Ruth Behar explores the sacrifices of her exiled Cuban ancestors alongside her own vulnerabilities in Everything I Kept/Todo Lo Que Guardé. Loretta Collins Klobah reveals the secret heart of Puerto Rico in Ricantations, where shiny modernity gives way to spirit presences before and after Hurricane Maria. I Even Regret Night: Holi Songs of Demerara is Rajiv Mohabir’s translation of the only known literary ...

Mona Hanna-Attisha tells the dramatic story of the Flint water crisis—an inspiring tale of scientific resistance by a relentless physician who stood up to power in What the Eyes Don't See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City. In the first full account of this American tragedy, Anna Clark's The Poisoned City recounts the gripping story ...

Carol Fulp’s Success Through Diversity: Why the Most Inclusive Companies Will Win explores how investing in a racially and ethnically diverse workforce will help make contemporary businesses more dynamic, powerful, and profitable. Crystal M. Fleming’s How to Be Less Stupid About Race is your essential guide to breaking through the half-truths and ridiculous misconceptions that have thoroughly corrupted the way ...

An epidemic of violence is sweeping the country: musicians are being murdered onstage in the middle of their sets by members of their audience in Destroy All Monsters: The Last Rock Novel by Jeff Jackson. From Martin Solares, a writer whose work has been praised as “Latin American fiction at its pulpy phantasmagorical finest,” Don’t Send Flowers is a novel ...

Brenda Ann Kenneally’s Upstate Girls: Unraveling Collar City creates an eye-opening portrait of the rise and fall of the American working class, and a shockingly intimate visual history of Troy, New York that arcs over five hundred years. Andy Sweet’s photographs of a bygone era of Jewish life come to life in Shtetl in the Sun: Andy Sweet’s South Beach ...

Boy Erased: A Memoir of Identity, Faith and Family tells the story of Garrard Conley who was forced to make a life-changing decision: either agree to attend a church-supported conversion therapy program that promised to “cure” him of homosexuality; or risk losing family, friends, and the God he had prayed to every day of his life.  Now a motion picture ...

Lip Service: True Stories Out Loud presents “Stranger than Fiction.” Lip Service, South Florida’s best showcase for true, personal stories invites you to tell your strangest story (500-words max). Email submissions@lipservicestories.com if you want to participate. Sponsored by

Sandra Gail Lambert’s A Certain Loneliness is a meditative and engaging memoir-in-essays that explores the intersection of disability, queerness, and female desire with frankness and humor. Through the eyes of an alcoholic rocket engineer's daughter, Linda Buckmaster’s Space Heart paints a picture of an era of endless optimism and television cowboys amid the looming Soviet threat.

Former U.S. Poets Laureate Billy Collins and Juan Felipe Herrera read from their latest books and discuss the necessity of poetry. In The Rain in Portugal, Collins contemplates everything from the whimsical—Shakespeare flying first class—to the elegiac—his reaction to the death of Seamus Heaney. In Jabberwalking, Herrera shares the secrets of how to turn the wonders of the world into ...

When you’re young and plunged into unimaginable peril, you can live a hundred adult lifetimes in one wild adventure. From a missing-children epidemic in turn-of-the-century Hong Kong to an ‘Inglorious Bastard-child” in Nazi Germany, to youth gangs in a futuristic wilderness of monsters, Anne Opotowsky and Aya Morton (His Dream of the Skyland), Geoff Moore (Son of Hitler) and Farel ...

From award-winning novelist Mary Morris, Gateway to the Moon: A Novel tells the remarkable story of a remote New Mexican town coming to grips with a dark history it never imagined. In Linda Spalding’s A Reckoning: A Novel, it’s 1855 when a Northern abolitionist arrives on a Virginia farm, creating havoc among the slaves.

Ellen G. Friedman's The Seven, A Family Holocaust Story is an account of the displacement of Polish Jews in the aftermath of World War II. Meri-Jane Rochelson’s biography Eli’s Story: A Twentieth-Century Jewish Life tells the story of a man whose life and memory spanned two world wars, several migrations, an educational odyssey, and the massive disruption of the Holocaust.

In The Power of Presence: Be A Voice in Your Child's Ear Even When You're Not With Them, Joy Thomas Moore explores seven pillars of presence that all parents can use to positively influence their children. In conversation with Ana Veciana Suarez.

From MSNBC correspondent Steve Kornacki, The Red and the Blue: The 1990s and the Birth of Political Tribalism is a lively and sweeping history of the 1990s. In conversation with Carlos Lozada. 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 ...

In No Turning Back: Life, Loss, and Hope in Wartime Syria, prize-winning journalist Rania Abouzeid tells the tragedy of the Syrian War through the dramatic stories of four young people seeking safety and freedom in a shattered country. In The Land Between Two Rivers Tom Sleigh examines the urgency of our global refugee crisis and our capacity as artists and ...

In The Family Tabor: A Novel by Cherise Wolas, a man is haunted by the long-buried secret that drove him, decades ago, to relocate his young family to the California desert. Melanie Hobson’s Summer Cannibals is a bold and gripping literary debut about three very different sisters who return to their family home to face imminent tragedy and their tumultuous ...

JOE HAGAN’s Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner & Rolling Stone Magazine is a delicious romp through the heyday of rock and roll and a revealing portrait of the man at the helm of the iconic magazine that made it all possible. ANDREW FRIEDMAN’s Chefs, Drugs and Rock & Roll transports readers back in time to witness ...

Duy Doan examines the ambiguities and tensions that mark our efforts to know our histories, our loved ones, and ourselves in We Play a Game. Joseph Legaspi’s Threshold explores the fluidity of gender, time, and love in the seemingly perpetual in-between. In Not Here, Hieu Minh Nguyen navigates whiteness, trauma, family, and nostalgia in poems that ache with both loneliness ...

Joseph Cassara’s The House of Impossible Beauties: A Novel is a gritty and gorgeous debut that follows a cast of gay and transgender club kids navigating the Harlem ball scene of the 1980s and ’90s. Laurie Frankel’s This Is How It Always Is: A Novel explores the consequences of trying to keep a family secret in a family of five ...

Michael Zadoorian’s Beautiful Music is a novel about one young man's transformation through music. The Sopranos actor, Michael Imperioli’s debut novel, The Perfume Burned His Eyes, tells the story of a teenage boy who becomes a quasi-assistant to Lou Reed in 1970s Manhattan.

A warped and exhilarating tale of love and lust, Matthew Klam’s Who Is Rich?  is a novel of family, monogamy, the intoxicating beauty of children, and the challenging interdependence of two soulful, sensitive creatures in a confusing domestic alliance. Told with zinging wit and zero propriety, Lacks Self-Control is a testament to Roy Sekoff’s unwavering commitment to overshare. Congratulations, Who ...

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Our Woman in Havana: A Diplomat's Chronicle of America's Long Struggle with Castro's Cuba is a longtime insider’s unprecedented look behind the “Sugar Curtain” during America’s long standoff with communist Cuba, by “one of this generation’s finest diplomats,” Ambassador Vicki Huddleston.

In Pam Kelley’s Money Rock: A Family’s Story of Cocaine, Race, and Ambition in the New South meet Money Rock―young, charismatic, and Charlotte’s flashiest coke dealer. In We Can’t Breathe: On Black Lives, White Lies, and The Art of Survival, Jabari Asim disrupts what Toni Morrison has exposed as the “Master Narrative” and replaces it with a story of black ...

Find out what it’s like to lift the pretty lid of an idyllic community and fall into its dark underside. Nate Powell (Come Again), David Small (Home After Dark), and Maggie Thrash (We Know it was You, Honor Girl) explore tarnished Golden State small-town life, secretive utopian communities, and the deceptive appearances of summer camps and high schools. Moderated by ...

In Trump Must Go: The Top 100 Reasons to Dump Trump (and One to Keep Him) TV and radio host Bill Press offers 100 reasons why Trump needs to be removed from office, whether by impeachment, the 25th Amendment, or the ballot box. In From the Left: A Life in the Crossfire, Press recounts the many hats he’s worn in ...

In The Stigmatized Child: “Mommy, am I stupid?”: Helping Parents Overcome the Stigma Attached to Learning Disabilities, ADHD, and Lack of Social Skills, John-Richard Thompson explore the different forms of stigma, such as the stigma faced by children from classmates and friends and from society.

In Make Ink: A Forager's Guide to Natural Inkmaking, Jason Logan delves into the history of inkmaking and the science of distilling pigment from the natural world.

In Brian Bandell's novel, Silence the Living, a former police officer carries in her bloodstream the most deadly substance on the planet, an intelligent alien microorganism that seeks to transform Earth into a habitat suitable for their aquatic species, which fled their destroyed planet. Judith Guskin's historical novel, of friendship, love, religious conflicts, politics, and war, Longing to Be Free: ...

Drunk Education is TED Talk meets happy hour! Developed by Eric Thurm, writers, comics, and artists have a few cocktails (okay, maybe more than a few), as they present slideshows about stuff they’re really into. Sponsored by

Arlene Stein draws from dozens of interviews with transgender people and their friends and families, as well as with activists and medical and psychological experts in Unbound: Transgender Men and the Remaking of Identity. Robert Fieseler’s Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation is an essential work of American civil rights ...

In The Sky Is Falling: How Vampires, Zombies, Androids, and Superheroes Made America Great for Extremism bestselling cultural critic Peter Biskind takes us on a dizzying ride across two decades of pop culture to show how the TV and movies we love—from superhero franchises such as the “Dark Knight,” “X-Men,” and the “Avengers” and series like “The Walking Dead” and ...

Blasting onto the scene with 1994’s classic, Marvels, Alex Ross brought the denizens of the Marvel universe to life in a way we had never seen before. Decades later, he continues to breathe life into the world’s greatest superheroes and supervillains with his photo realistic depictions. Join author and designer Chip Kidd and Abrams Editorial Director Charlie Kochman as they ...

Beth Macy’s Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America is the only book to fully chart the devastating opioid crisis in America. Maureen Cavanagh’s gripping memoir If You Love Me is the story of a mother who suddenly finds herself on the frontlines of the opioid epidemic as her daughter battles—and ultimately reckons with—substance use disorder.

Raymond Arsenault’s Arthur Ashe: A Life is the first comprehensive, authoritative biography of American icon Arthur Ashe—the Jackie Robinson of men’s tennis. In chronicling the adventurous life of legendary CIA operative Edward Lansdale, Max Boot’s The Road Not Taken definitively reframes our understanding of the Vietnam War.The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created, from Jane Leavy, is ...

That Woman from Mississippi opens with author Norma Watkins’ flight from her husband and children in segregated Mississippi and explores the consequences of exile. Reclaimed is Antonia Williams-Gary’s memoir about her struggle in silence through decades of emotional abuse, while maintaining a high profile, public marriage.

Gary Shteyngart presents a biting, brilliant, emotionally resonant novel very much of our times in Lake Success: A Novel. A struggling novelist travels the world to avoid an awkward wedding in Andrew Sean Greer’s  Less: A Novel , a hilarious Pulitzer Prize-winning novel full of "arresting lyricism and beauty," according to The New York Times Book Review.

In Nadine Gonzalez’s romance Exclusively Yours (Miami Dreams), lovers are thwarted by professional rivalries. In Gonzalez’s Unconditionally Mine (Miami Dreams) no one can know that Sofia’s engagement to her lying, cheating fiancé is over—until she meets gorgeous, wealthy newcomer Jonathan Gunther. Set in the powerful backdrop of the 1960s Civil Rights movement, Cheryl Mattox Berry’s Memphis Blues will test the ...

A girl embarks on a quest to find a missing friend in Almahue, a small town in the Chilean Patagonia in Malamor Trilogy: To The End of the World by José Ignacio Valenzuela. Set against a culture that often fetishizes violence, Maria Hummel’s Still Lives is a page-turning exodus into the art world’s hall of mirrors. Heidi Sopinka’s The Dictionary ...

Artists in Residence in Everglades, (AIRIE) Director Deborah Mitchell, author of Everglades Field Guide: From Reality to Memory, and 2014 AIRIE fellows, Valerie LeBlanc and Daniel H. Dugas, authors of Everglades, discuss their new art books referencing the cultural history of this fragile, imperiled ecosystem. Their strategic goal is to inspire the public to reconsider the environment while also illuminating ...

In a world where facts are easily manufactured and ruin is easily achieved, Tom Sleigh’s House of Fact, House of Ruin urges toward a different freedom. In Things as It Is, Chase Twichell lifts up the joy of the moment while mourning a changing world. Kevin Young speaks to the way personal experience is shaped by culture, and vice versa ...

Things get brassy when Young Musicians Unite take on FIU’s Phi Mu Alpha in a brass-band battle that would blow the roof off The Porch—if it had one.   Sponsored by

Former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under President Barack Obama, Julian Castro, presents a candid and compelling memoir about race and poverty in America: An Unlikely Journey: Waking Up from My American Dream. 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 ...