Cirko Teatro presents the local favorite “El show de Enriqueta y Agapito,” a puppet-theatre performance in Spanish that focuses on environmental awareness and kindness towards animals. This participatory experience will engage children to meet a host of four-legged creatures, jugglers, and clowns, and to take part of an adventure that teaches them about compassion, respect, and love for one another. ...

Conecta Miami Arts brings to life beloved children’s fairytales from around the world. These bilingual, immersive street-theatre pieces celebrate friendship, courage, and imagination. They also address the questions every fan of fairytales is dying to know, such as: How did Peter Pan first get to Neverland? Why isn’t the cat part of the Chinese Zodiac?

In Where Do I Begin?: Stories from a Life Lived Out Loud, radio personality Elvis Duran shares his wildest stories and hardest-learned lessons, all with his trademark heart and humor.

Join Encantos Media to read and color from their various book collections: Emmy-nominated, award-winning baby brand Canticos makes learning fun with bilingual books, digital apps and sign-alongs. Learn about the many cultural wonders of the world through the Tiny Travelers Book Series and their Day of the Dead-inspired collection Skeletitos. Meet Ricky Chickie the Puppet, enjoy a reading from author ...

The Florida International University College of Arts, Science & Education Mobile STEAM Festival will spark your curiosity in planets Earth’s greatest stories.  Join our Mobile STEAM Festival as we put the spirit of discovery in your hands with activities such as air-propelled rockets, marine-focused VR goggles, human electricity circuits and more!

Join the festival-wide search for the world’s most famous missing person. For the chance to win a deluxe Where’s Waldo? prize pack, pick up a Where’s Waldo? postcard at the Children’s Alley info booth.  Use the postcard to record details about where you spot him. Once you’ve located Waldo in all three of his hiding places, write your name, address, and ...

Addison Mizner: Architect of Fantasy and Romance by Beth Dunlop celebrates the work of the acclaimed designer of villas in Spanish, Moorish, Venetian, and Mediterranean styles.

Caribbean writers publish gripping works in the fields of science fiction and fantasy — evolving the texture and nature of the genres with new perspectives and new approaches. Listen to four contemporary writers, Karen Lorde (Barbados), Imam Baksh (Guyana), Breanne McIvor (Trinidad), and Ann Dávila Cardinal (Puerto Rico) read from, and discuss, stories that edge beyond myth, mythology, and science ...

Whether you start the morning with a cup of coffee and the New Yorker, or tea and an Instagram story, cartoons are still a part of Saturday morning rituals. Start your Saturday off with these incredible collections from New Yorker artists Bob Eckstein (The Ultimate Cartoon Book of Cartoons) and Liana Finck (Excuse Me: Cartoons, Complaints, and Notes to Self).

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In Joyce Carol Oates’ Pursuit, a newlywed husband begins to uncover his bride’s dark secrets, as she lies hospitalized after an accident. Or did she attempt suicide?  Oates will be in conversation with Christopher Beha, Executive Editor, Harper’s Magazine.   Sponsored by 

In William Stoner and the Battle for the Inner Life, author Steve Almond writes about the 1965 John Williams novel Stoner and why it continues to speak to the impoverishment of inner life in America.

Joseph Deitch shares his lifelong pursuit of wisdom and growth in the accessible, practical, down-to-earth, Elevate: An Essential Guide to Life.

Former New Orleans mayor Mitch Landrieu’s book In the Shadow of Statues: A White Southerner Confronts History is a frank exploration of the history of racism in the South and its current resurgence. TICKETS AVAILABLE OCTOBER 21, 2019 at 12 P.M. Click here to purchase tickets! FREE tickets will be required for admission to this presentation. Seating with a ticket ...

In Why Liberalism Failed, Patrick Deneen offers an astringent warning that the centripetal forces now at work on our political culture are not superficial flaws but inherent features of a system whose success is generating its own failure.

In Seven Sisters and a Brother: Friendship, Resistance, and the Untold Truth Behind Black Activism at Swarthmore College, the eight students at the heart of the historical eight-day sit-in in 1969 at Swarthmore College — Marilyn Allman Maye, Jannette O. Domingo, Marilyn J. Holifield, Aundrea White Kelley, Myra E. Rose, Harold S. Buchanan and Erica James — recall a protest ...

A woman finds meaning in her life when she begins caring for two children with remarkable and disturbing abilities in Kevin Wilson’s novel, Nothing to See Here. A turf war between neighbors leads to a small-town crisis in Julie Langsdorf’s novel, White Elephant. In Brock Clarke’s Who Are You, Calvin Bledsoe?: A Novel, a sheltered man is whisked off on ...

In The Beatles from A to Zed: An Alphabetical Mystery Tour, record producer and performer Peter Asher takes readers on an alphabetical journey of insights into the music of the Beatles.  In conversation with WLRN Radio host Joe Johnson.

“Niños, esperanza del mundo”, organizado por la Fundación Cuatrogatos y la Feria del Libro de Miami Los libros, la lectura y nosotros, con Mónica Rodríguez (España), Roxana Méndez (El Salvador), John Fitzgerald Torres (Colombia) y Fanuel Hanán Díaz (Venezuela)  

Dennis Scholl is a Miami-based art collector and the president and CEO of Oolite Arts. Henry Skerrit’s book The Inside World: Contemporary Aboriginal Australian Memorial Poles focuses on an exhibit drawn from the collection of Debra and Dennis Scholl. The exhibition was the third touring exhibition of their Aboriginal art collection. Scholl will be in conversation with Amy Galpin, Chief ...

La narradora, docente del MDC y colaboradora de la ANLE Myra Medina presenta El cambio de las estaciones (Baquiana), novela que tiene por escenario una isla caribeña a lo largo del siglo XX. Oscar Cásares, narrador, ensayista y profesor en University of Texas, llega con De donde venimos (Vintage), sobre una familia mexicoamericana vinculada al tráfico de inmigrantes. Mientras el ...

La narradora, docente del MDC y colaboradora de la ANLE Myra Medina presenta El cambio de las estaciones (Baquiana), novela que tiene por escenario una isla caribeña a lo largo del siglo XX. Oscar Cásares, narrador, ensayista y profesor en University of Texas, llega con De donde venimos (Vintage), sobre una familia mexicoamericana vinculada al tráfico de inmigrantes. Mientras el ...

Miguel Cossío Woodward, escritor cubano radicado en México, presenta su novela policíaca Naturaleza muerta (Dharma Books and Publishing), donde la historia está contada por la víctima, después de su muerte. El narrador, periodista y editor cubano Daniel Fernández ofrece La amnesia (Silueta), novela escrita como un diario personal donde un hombre mayor anota su día a día. El guionista y ...

Miguel Cossío Woodward, escritor cubano radicado en México, presenta su novela policíaca Naturaleza muerta (Dharma Books and Publishing), donde la historia está contada por la víctima, después de su muerte. El narrador, periodista y editor cubano Daniel Fernández ofrece La amnesia (Silueta), novela escrita como un diario personal donde un hombre mayor anota su día a día. El guionista y ...

Robert Boyers’s The Tyranny of Virtue: Identity, the Academy, and the Hunt for Political Heresies elegantly and fiercely addresses recent developments in American culture, and argues for the tolerance of difference that is at the heart of the liberal tradition. Stanley Fish’s The First: How to Think About Hate Speech, Campus Speech, Religious Speech, Fake News, Post-Truth, and Donald Trump ...

The National Book Foundation’s National Book Awards recognizes some of the most outstanding poetry collections published in the U.S. each year. Moderated by poet Denise Duhamel.  Dan Beachy-Quick, Variations on Dawn and Dusk Jericho Brown, The Tradition Toi Derricotte, “I”: New and Selected Poems Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic Ariana Reines, A Sand Book Brian Teare, Doomstead Days Sponsored by 

The National Book Foundation’s National Book Awards recognizes some of the most outstanding works of translated literature published in the U.S. each year. In conversation with translator and professor Becka McKay. Diane Grosklaus Whitty, The Collector of Leftover Souls: Field Notes on Brazil’s Everyday Insurrections Sponsored by  

In The Master Plan: My Journey from Life in Prison to a Life of Purpose, Chris Wilson tells his story of second chances: from being sentenced to life in prison with no hope of parole at 18, to successful social entrepreneur, mentor, and public speaker.

Nominated for a 2019 National Book Award, Kadir Nelson’s children’s book The Undefeated, is a poem and love letter to black life in the United States.  All ages welcome.  Moderated by Rita Mayer, Miami Dade Public Library System Children’s Librarian. Sponsored by    

Michael Gil, Arsenio Diaz and Manuel Clua created the trio DJ Ma Non Troppo,  a fresh and ludic blend of electronic music, loop stations pedals, guitar synthesizers that beautifully mix with the ancestral sounds of a Didgeridoo, Berimbau, Jaw harps and the Sitar. In a performance specially commissioned by Miami Book Fair for this year’s event, they will be joined ...

Brian D. Johnson’s self-help book, Live Your Dreams Out Loud: 6 Steps to Conquer Your Fears and Achieve Your Dreams, outlines a path to success. In Perfectly You: Embracing the Power of Being Real,  Mariana Atencio digs into what makes each of us special and the ways in which we can become a force for good in a broken world. ...

Evelyn McDonnell’s Women Who Rock: Bessie to Beyonce. Girl Groups to Riot Grrrl is an unprecedented celebration of 104 musical artists, and the history of the evolution and importance of women in music. Ed Ward’s The History of Rock & Roll, Volume 2, covers the period between The Beatles’ arrival to America in 1964 to the mid-70s, one of the ...

Senator Tom Cotton’s A Soldier’s Tour at Arlington National Cemetery is an unforgettable testament to the timeless power of service and sacrifice to our nation. TICKETS AVAILABLE OCTOBER 21, 2019 at 12 P.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, first served” basis. ...

In Outside Looking In: A Novel, T.C. Boyle takes us back to the 1960s and to the early days of a drug whose effects have reverberated widely throughout our culture: LSD. In conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan of fiction/non/fiction, a LitHub Radio Podcast.

Shobha Rao´s Girls Burn Brighter explores the extraordinary bond between two poor, ambitious girls driven apart by circumstance, but relentless in their search for one another. In Tupelo Hassman’s novel, gods with a little g, threats against the Psychic Encounter Shoppe become serious actions in a California town run by evangelical Christians. Lisa Howorth’s Summerlings is a Cold War coming-of-age ...

Set during the tumultuous George W. Bush years — amid the twin catastrophes of the Iraq insurgency and Hurricane Katrina — Landfall brings Thomas Mallon’s cavalcade of contemporary American politics to a vivid and emotional climax. In her historical novel The Flight Portfolio, Julie Orringer weaves invention and facts as she follows the efforts of one man to save artists ...

In Walls of Change: The Story of Wynwood Walls, Jessica Goldman Srebnick, CEO of Goldman Properties; author Hal Rubenstein; and photographer Martha Cooper; chronicle a decade of art in Miami’s Wynwood district, capturing the development of its most exemplary murals. Walls of Change features never-before-seen photographs of the Walls’ development, and special commentary by street art’s most iconic figures, including ...

In her memoir Tough Love, ambassador Susan E. Rice connects the personal and the professional as it examines her career on the front lines of American diplomacy and foreign policy. In conversation with poet Tom Healy. TICKETS AVAILABLE OCTOBER 21, 2019 at 12 P.M. Click here to purchase tickets! FREE tickets will be required for admission to this presentation. Seating ...

In Palm Beach, Mar-a-Lago, and the Rise of America’s Xanadu, Les Standiford tells the history of this landscape and the lives of the rich, the famous and the infamous. Historian Dr. Douglas Brinkley’s American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race takes a fresh look at the space program, and America’s race to the moon. Brad Meltzer’s The ...

Two of the best-loved and most celebrated poets of our time, Campbell McGrath and Sharon Olds, share the stage to discuss their newest books. Nothing is too large or small to remain untouched by McGrath’s voracious intellect and deep empathy in Nouns & Verbs: New and Selected Poems. Olds gives us radical new poems of intimate life and political conscience, ...

Caribbean writers often occupy a space of hybridity, between worlds, so that they often engage with writing through the lenses of their perceived “otherness,” exploring the biases and inherited classifications, and the implications of writing from the margins. Edwidge Danticat (Haiti), Kevin Adonis Browne (Trinidad), Candice Carty-Williams (Jamaica), and Jaquira Diaz (Puerto-Rico) will consider how, even as they honor each ...

Nitsy Grau es una actriz, directora de teatro y cine y dramaturga cubana radicada en Miami. Trae a la Feria Las manos de Lady y otras astillas (Artefactus Press), un volumen que agrupa diez de sus piezas de teatro breve. El abogado, diplomático, narrador, poeta, especialista en temas sociales y promotor cultural mexicano Arturo Morell ofrece Confía en ti y ...

In What It Is: Race, Family, and One Thinking Black Man’s Blues, Clifford Thompson explores the war between the values he has held, and the reality in twenty-first-century America. In his collection of essays We Speak for Ourselves: A Word from Forgotten Black America, D. Watkins gives a voice to people who live in economically disadvantaged black communities and whose ...

In How to Start a Revolution: Young People and the Future of American Politics, Teen Vogue columnist Lauren Duca shares a smart and funny guide and a much-needed reminder that young people are the ones who will change the world. Duca will be joined by Elizabeth Flock, reporter and producer for PBS NewsHour.

La narradora, poeta y directora de cine cubana Wendy Guerra presenta su nueva novela Historia de un mercenario que coleccionaba obras de arte (Penguin Random House), obra que ofrece un punto de referencia sobre los enemigos que enfrentaron las izquierdas latinoamericanas. Anjel Lertxundi es escritor, periodista y guionista. Originario del País Vasco, nos ofrece Tú (Erein), obra en la que ...

“Niños, esperanza del mundo”, organizado por la Fundación Cuatrogatos y la Feria del Libro de Miami Niños, literatura y futuro con Menena Cottin (Venezuela), Legna Rodríguez Iglesias (Cuba), José Ignacio Valenzuela Chile), David Unger (Guatemala) y María Cueto (Cuba-Estados Unidos)     

The National Book Foundation’s National Book Awards recognize some of the most outstanding works of fiction published in the U.S. each year. Moderated by Ellen Book, Miami Dade Public Library System Branch Manager. Susan Choi, Trust Exercise Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Sabrina & Corina: Stories Marlon James, Black Leopard, Red Wolf Laila Lalami, The Other Americans Kimberly King Parsons, Black Light: Stories ...

Dave Barry learns how to age happily in his latest book, Lessons from Lucy: The Simple Joys of an Old, Happy Dog. Barry will be joined in conversation by Carl Hiaasen, author, most recently, of Squirm. Sponsored by   TICKETS AVAILABLE OCTOBER 21, 2019 at 12 P.M. Click here to purchase tickets! FREE tickets will be required for admission to ...

Jose Ignacio “Chascas” Valenzuela’s To The End of the World, the first installment in English of his popular Trilogia del Malamor, is a story of love, betrayal and fantasy  – and the ultimate quest for survival. Carolina de Robertis’s Cantoras is a revolutionary new novel about five wildly different women who find one another as lovers, friends, and ultimately, family, ...

(Northwest corner of N.E. 3rd Street and 2nd Avenue) Electric Kif and their undeniable spunk bring an unparalleled energy and blend of cosmic funk, rock, soul, and jazz. Sponsored by  

Our memories are our most cherished, painful and deceitful possessions – diving back into them means facing realities we’re not always ready for. Cecil Castellucci (Girl on Film), Kevin Huizenga (The River at Night), Brian Fies (A Fire Story), and David Heatley (Qualification), talk about memories, both real and imagined, and discuss how time always provides a new way to ...

In The Three Principles of Oneness, Anthony Stultz, a Buddhist minister, offers a scientifically sound, cosmic perspective on spirituality in the 21st century.

Kerri Greenidge’s Black Radical: The Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter, reestablishes Trotter’s essential place in the pantheon of American civil rights heroes. Dr. Greenidge will be in conversation with Channing Joseph, Fellow, The Leon Levy Center for Biography. Sponsored by Biography    

The National Book Foundation’s National Book Awards recognize some of the most outstanding works of nonfiction published in the U.S. each year. Moderated by Elizabeth Flock, reporter and producer for PBS NewsHour. Hanif Abdurraqib, Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to a Tribe Called Quest Sarah M. Broom, The Yellow House Tressie McMillan Cottom, Thick: And Other Essays Carolyn Forché, ...

Joshua Foer’s travel guide, Atlas Obscura, 2nd Edition: An Explorer’s Guide to the World’s Hidden Wonders, offers readers even more of the most unusual, curious, bizarre, and mysterious places on earth.   Sponsored by   

Tres autores colombianos nos cuentan sus travesías. Periodista, corresponsal extranjero, diplomático, Enrique Córdoba presenta De la tierra del hielo a la Tierra del fuego (Palabra Libre), una apasionante crónica de su quinta vuelta alrededor del mundo. Ángela Posada Swafford, periodista y autora de libros para niños y jóvenes llega con Hielo: bitácora de una expedicionaria antártica (Planeta), en el que ...

Brenda Wineapple’s The Impeachers recalls a crucial time in American history, when the Congress set out to stop Andrew Johnson, with the first-ever impeachment of a sitting American president. Rick Atkinson’s The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 delves into the first twenty-one months of the American Revolution. Sponsored by TICKETS AVAILABLE OCTOBER 21, 2019 ...

Caribbean writers in and outside of the Caribbean have been creating meaningful and evocative settings using sensitive and sophisticated approaches to displacement and repatriation. They’ve written across real and unreal boundaries and drawn on their homelands’ history and landscapes in order to create a broader Caribbean literary pantheon. Panelists will discuss how they create and consider real and imagined spaces, ...

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

Northwest corner of N.E. 3rd Street and 2nd Avenue South Florida’s longest-running, live storytelling event, Lip Service, features true, smart, honest, (and sometimes sexy) stories presented before a live audience.

Nina MacLaughlin’s Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung, the women of Ovid’s Metamorphoses claim their stories and challenge the power of myth. Jake Wolff’s first novel, The History of Living Forever, tells the story of a chemistry student who falls for his teacher and, at his death, uncovers a centuries-old quest for the elixir of life. Fernando A. Flores’s Tears of the ...

R. Mark Goldstein’s Lions and Tigers and Hamsters: What Animals Large and Small Taught Me About Life, Love, and Humanity illustrates the tremendous impact animals have on our daily lives. Susannah Charleson’s Where the Lost Dogs Go: A Story of Love, Search, and the Power of Reunion is an important and heartfelt exploration into the world of lost dogs. In ...

Steve Luxenberg’s Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America’s Journey from Slavery to Segregation is a myth-shattering narrative of the pernicious consequences of racial segregation in the United States. Daniel Brooks’ The Accident of Color: A Story of Race in Reconstruction is a technicolor history of the first civil rights movement and its collapse into black and white.

A mysterious traveler watches humanity’s rise and fall, two women uncover a galaxy-spanning conspiracy, a detective gets tangled up in a murderous gang’s pursuit of a legendary mind-altering substance, a young woman discovers cheap rent can be deadly in an Afrofuturist tale of gentrification horror. Koren Shadmi (Highwayman), Paul Pope (Heavy Liquid), Ben Passmore (BTTM FDRS) gather to take you ...

William Dameron’s The Lie: A Memoir of Two Marriages, Catfishing & Coming Out is a candid memoir of denial, stolen identities, betrayal, faking it, and coming out. Moderated by Elyssa Goodman, a New York-based writer and photographer.

“Niños, esperanza del mundo”, organizado por la Fundación Cuatrogatos y la Feria del Libro de Miami Escribir para las nuevas generaciones con Juan Villoro (México) y Antonio Orlando Rodríguez (Cuba-Estados Unidos)  

Fugazi, one of music s most revolutionary and gloriously indefinable bands, is the subject of photographer Glen Friedman’s Keep Your Eyes Open: The Fugazi Photographs of Glen E. Friedman. Friedman will be joined in conversation by Fugazi singer and guitarist Guy Picciotto. Moderatred by author Jess Row.

Author and former Granta editor, John Freeman, presents an anthology of California stories that captures the state in all its glorious complexity. Freeman will be joined by contributors Xuan Juliana Wang’s (Home Remedies), and Shobha Rao (Girls Burn Brighter). 

In the collection Busted in New York and Other Essays, Darryl Pinckney offers a view of our recent racial history that blends the social and the personal — as it wonders how we arrived at our current moment.

How we navigate how others see us, and how that causes us to see ourselves are a key part of finding our path in life. Maia Kobabe (Gender Queer), and Vita Ayala (The Wilds), explore how the standards of “normality” manipulate perceptions of gender, race, and cultural heritage, and how they’re breaking those standards down. Moderated by author/illustrator Kristen Radtke ...

Jimmy Neurosis, James Oseland´s memoir, tells us about being young and gay during the 1970s punk revolution in America. In Mama’s Boy: A Story from Our Americas, LGBTQ activist Dustin Lance Black explores how he and his conservative Mormon mother built bridges across today’s great divides.

Northwest corner of N.E. 3rd Street and 2nd Avenue Tamboka is a Miami-based Gypsy Latin Band that plays a one-of-a-kind fusion drawing from Flamenco and Swing, to Cumbia, Bossa Nova, salsa and more. Come and shake it to the groove. Sponsored by GEICO

Mitchell S. Jackson’s Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family is an essential addition to the national conversation about race and class. Sarah M. Broom’s The Yellow House explores the relationship between a family and their home in a neglected area of New Orleans. Ibram X. Kendi’s How to Be an Anti-racist is an in-depth guide to understanding and uprooting ...

Combining clear, practical advice with inspiration, wisdom, tips, and curated reading lists, Pamela Paul shows how to instill the joy and time-stopping pleasure of reading in her book, How to Raise a Reader. Adam Mansbach’s Fuck, Now There Are Two of You, is actually a loving monologue about a new addition to the family. Paul and Mansbach will be joined ...

Josh Levin’s The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth is a fascinating account of American racism, and an exposé of the “welfare queen” myth. Levin will be joined by Elizabeth Flock, reporter and producer for PBS NewsHour.

Set within the charged insularity of rural West Virginia, Mesha Maren’s Sugar Run is a searing and gritty debut about making a break for another life. In Andrea Bartz’s The Lost Night, a woman looks into a decade old death of a friend, and questions whether she was involved. Inspired by a true story, Eileen Pollack’s The Professor of Immortality ...

In A Door in the Earth, Amy Waldman tells the story of a young Afghan-American woman who returns to her country of birth only to find herself trapped between her ideals and the complicated truth. In Immigrant, Montana, Amitava Kumar weaves a story that is an incandescent investigation of love—despite, beyond, and across dividing lines. Helon Habila’s novel, Travelers, follows ...

When the Sky Fell: Hurricane Maria and the United States in Puerto Rico is a searing investigation of the factors that devastated Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria, from acclaimed investigative reporter Michael Deibert.

Myla Goldberg’s Feast Your Eyes is a compelling and wholly original story about a female photographer grappling with ambition and motherhood. In kaddish.com: A Novel, Nathan Englander delivers a streamlined comic masterpiece about a son’s failure to say Kaddish for his father. Set in the lawless, drought-ridden lands of the Arizona Territory in 1893, Tea Obreht’s novel Inland subverts and ...

In America’s Casablanca: A “True Novel” About Miami’s Emergence from Bankruptcy and Corruption former Miami City Manager and City Attorney Jose Garcia-Pedrosa draws on his real-life experiences drawn from the snake pit of corruption that was Miami politics of the late 90s to tell a tale of personal and professional perseverance.

Kate Lacour (Vivisectionary) will take you on a journey to the darkest corners of the human psyche. If you’re lucky, they’ll bring you back…. (MATURE CONTENT)   Cynthia Von Buhler UNABLE TO APPEAR Nina Bunjevac UNABLE TO APPEAR

Northwest corner of N.E. 3rd Street and 2nd Avenue Cage fight meets poetry slam, American Idol meets book club—that’s Literary Death Match. Four local writers will read their most “electric” works, followed by no-holds-barred commentary by judges. The action will culminate in an “anything goes,” totally unpredictable finale. Hosted by Adrian Todd Zuniga.

Jonathan Blum’s The Usual Uncertainties: Stories follows characters and communities often consigned to the edge of the frame.

Television producer Gary Janetti’s Do You Mind If I Cancel?: (Things That Still Annoy Me) chronicles the pains and indignities of everyday life. In his memoir Beautiful on the Outside former Olympic figure skater Adam Rippon recounts his journey from a homeschooled kid in Scranton, PA, to self-professed America’s Sweetheart.

In his In Defense of Elitism: Why I’m Better Than You and You’re Better Than Someone Who Didn’t Buy This Book, Joel Stein bravely faces the anti-elitists with humor and big words. In conversation with Roxanne Coady, host of Just the Right Book, a LitHub Radio podcast.

In Moving Forward: A Story of Hope, Hard Work, and the Promise of America Karine Jean-Pierre shows that politics can be accessible to anyone, no matter their background. Jean-Peirre will be joined in conversation with journalist Jorge Ramos. Sponsored by      TICKETS AVAILABLE OCTOBER 21, 2019 at 12 P.M. Click here to purchase tickets! FREE tickets will be required for ...