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Dina Aronson’s Midlife Private Parts: Revealing Essays that Will Change the Way You Think About Age, co-edited with Dina Alvarez, is a soulful, revealing collection of essays that explore the transformative experience of midlife. With candor, humor, and heart, contemporary women writers share stories of reinvention, menopause, friendship, dating, and confronting invisibility, while celebrating the power, freedom, and confidence that come with age. In Bunny Gonopolskaya’s Holy Menopause: Adventures of a Middle-Aged Superheroine, executive New York mom Mina is juggling meetings,…

In Emma Knight’s The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus, Pen arrives at the University of Edinburgh and is drawn into the orbit of a famous writer tied to her parents’ past. As she uncovers their secret and falls in love for the first time, she faces the shocks of adulthood in this portrait of campus life, sexual awakening, and the many ways women become mothers. In Jessica Soffer‘s This Is a Love Story: A Novel,…

In Misbehaving at the Crossroads: Essays & Writings (Harper), Honorée Fanonne Jeffers reflects on the historical and personal tensions shaping Black women’s lives. From girlhood to womanhood, she explores ancestry, adultification, respectability politics, and womanism, while confronting white supremacy and patriarchy. With empathy and brilliance, she illuminates the journeys, resilience and possibilities of Black women throughout American history and in contemporary times. Throughout history, the concept of Blackness has been remarkably intertwined with the color blue. But while blue skies and blue water offer hope,…

This is a free event that requires a ticket for entry. With A Dream Deferred: Jesse Jackson and the Fight for Black Political Power, CNN NewsNight anchor Abby Phillip delivers a fresh look at the history of Black political power through the lens of Jackson’s transformative presidential campaigns. His White House runs in 1984 and 1988 created the blueprint for the modern Democratic coalition – one that has been used by all major party members seeking national office, from Barack Obama to Joe Biden to Kamala Harris.…

Rosa Marquetti Torres presenta Celia en el mundo (1962-2003), obra que recorre con rigor y pasión la trayectoria de Celia Cruz tras su exilio, desde su éxito con la Fania All Stars hasta sus colaboraciones internacionales, retratando a la artista que, fiel a sus raíces, conquistó escenarios globales con su voz y su energía inigualables. En conversación con el periodista César Miguel Rondón.   Compra Celia en el mundo (1962-2003) – Marquetti Torres…

Asha Elias’ The Namaste Club: A Novel is a sly, hilarious beach read about rich people behaving badly. At a luxe Florida yoga retreat, wealthy divorcées, an heiress who’s taken a vow of silence, a tradwife in hiding, and a man-bunned instructor collide during Transcendence Week. Some will be living their best life – and some will get their comeuppance. Nicky Gonzalez’s Mayra: A Novel follows Ingrid as she gets an out-of-the-blue call from her childhood best friend,…

In Bad Influence by Claire Ahn, an aspiring fashion influencer desperately tries to lift her family out of hardship, only to find it may come at a cost higher than any Chanel bag. Ebony Ladelle’s This Could Be Forever pairs two rising college freshmen who find themselves – and each other – while pursuing their passions the summer before college. Erin Entrada Kelly and Kwame Mbalia co-authored On Again, Off Again, in which two high school freshmen find themselves drawn to each other,…

With The Essential Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz: The Greatest Comic Strip of All Time, contributor Chip Kidd – author and vice president, art director, and editor-at-large for the Knopf Doubleday publishing group – celebrates 50 years of the beloved strip that made its debut October 2, 1950, with now-iconic characters that remain touchstones for generations around the world. The book provides insightful and entertaining cultural and historical context and appreciations, and remembrances from key figures in the world of Peanuts.…

DJ, producer, and remixer Arthur Baker has shaped hip-hop, rock, and electronic genres, working with legendary artists like Diana Ross, Fleetwood Mac, and The Rolling Stones. In Looking for the Perfect Beat: Remixing and Reshaping Hip-Hop, Rock and Rhythms, he tells the story of a genre-defying artist whose boundary-pushing sound has influenced popular music for 50 years. Joining Baker in conversation is author, music journalist, and filmmaker Nelson George.   Buy Looking for the Perfect Beat: Remixing and Reshaping Hip-Hop,…

Elliot Ackerman’s Sheepdogs: A Novel is the story of a high-stakes heist gone wrong, when ex-CIA operative Skwerl and former Afghan pilot Cheese are recruited on a mission to repossess a multimillion-dollar private jet stranded on a remote African airfield. From Uganda to France, they navigate deception, betrayal, and shifting loyalties in an action-packed thriller where the line between hunters and the hunted is razor thin. In Dan Fesperman’s Pariah: A Novel, Hal, a disgraced comedian-turned-politician,…

The 2025 honorees across all five National Book Award categories – including Gbenga Adesina, María Dolores Águila, K. Ancrum, Jazmina Barrera, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Cathy Linh Che, Susan Choi, Tiana Clark, Angela Flournoy, Caleb Gayle, Julia Ioffe, Hamid Ismailov, Jonas Hassen Khemiri,…

Con Negro en la costa, María E. Hernández Caballero se adentra por los subsuelos del mundo cultural cubano de los años ochenta reflejando las relaciones interraciales, la disidencia sexual y el racismo. Juan Carlos Méndez Guédez presenta Cuando vuelva diciembre, novela donde un personaje recurre a las memorias de un plato de su infancia para sobrellevar la soledad y el desmoronamiento de su vida en la España actual. Rasgada obsesión, de Saúl Sosnowski, entrelaza una historia de amor con reflexiones sobre la memoria judía,…

La aclamada narradora española María Dueñas presenta su nueva obra Por si un día volvemos, una historia ambientada en los años 20, donde una joven española llega a una ciudad africana bajo una identidad falsa. Obligada a trabajos duros, lucha por liberarse y su fortaleza la impulsa a rehacerse y ascender durante tres décadas marcadas por retos. Como telón de fondo: el auge colonial y el trágico fin de la Argelia Francesa. En conversación con el periodista Damià Bonmatí.…

Get ready to dance and clap along to some of your favorite jazz, rock, and Latin hits with SFCPA’s Advanced Percussion Ensemble. Join us for this interactive, engaging, and family-friendly all-percussion concert featuring performances on marimba, xylophone, hand drums, and more!…

A career-spanning monograph, Pepe Mar: Myth & Magic is a portal into Pepe Mar’s universe of myth-making, queer alchemy, and visual storytelling that draws from underground culture, fashion, and folklore. Featuring penetrating essays by leading curators and scholars that include Lawrence Rinder, Evan Garza, Yuval Etgar, Amy Galpin, and Joanna Robotham. The book accompanies an exhibition at the Tampa Museum of Art. Joining Mar in conversation is Robotham, the museum’s curator of modern and contemporary art.…

In The Words of Dr. L: & Other Stories, Karen E. Bender explores the nuclear family through adolescence, motherhood, the empty nest, and aging parents. A woman seeks magical words to end a pregnancy, a mother finds a forgotten child, a couple orbits Earth apart from their son, and society flees to Mars. These stories reveal hidden truths of freedom, power, and parent-child bonds. In Allison King’s The Phoenix Pencil Company: A Novel, a hidden magic – the ability to reforge pencils and revive the memories they contain – binds college recluse Monica to her fading grandmother,…

José Feeds the World: How a Famous Chef Feeds Millions of People in Need around the World, illustrated by Marta Álvarez Miguéns, tells the story of José Andrés, an award-winning chef, food activist, and founder of World Central Kitchen, a disaster relief organization that has fed more than 200 million people affected by natural disasters, the COVID pandemic, and war. Grades K-3. SPONSORED BY…

Join Altie Karper, editorial director of Schocken Books/Penguin Random House for more than 20 years; Todd Portnowitz, senior editor at Alfred A. Knopf; and Rose Waldman, translator of Chaim Grade’s Sons and Daughters: A Novel, for a discussion centered around the book, held by many as one of the foremost collections of contemporary Yiddish literature. Originally serialized in the 1960s and ’70s in New York–based Yiddish newspapers, the epic Sons and Daughters is a precious glimpse of the rich Yiddish culture of Poland and Lithuania that the Holocaust would eradicate.…

In An Ignorance of Trees: A Memoir in Essays, Jim Daniels writes about trees, backyard swing sets, above-ground swimming pools, pets, and hoarding, carrying his beloved Detroit with him wherever he goes. Doubling as a rich, textured biography of place, An Ignorance of Trees enriches the terrain of the Midwest with heart, as bruised and beautiful as ever. In Of Slash Pines and Manatees: A Highly Selective Field Guide to My Suburban Wilderness, Andrew Furman contemplates his place in a subtropical landscape by exploring touchpoints between his everyday suburban life and the environment in South Florida.…

In We Are Eating the Earth: The Race to Fix Our Food System and Save Our Climate, bestselling author Michael Grunwald argues that the greatest challenge facing our species is slowing our relentless expansion of farmland into nature. Even if we quit fossil fuels, we’ll keep hurtling toward climate chaos if we don’t solve our food and land problems – now. In Sea of Grass: The Conquest, Ruin, and Redemption of Nature on the American Prairie, Dave Hage and Josephine Marcotty spotlight an ecological marvel under siege.…

This is a free event that requires a ticket for entry. In The Folly of Realism: How the West Deceived Itself About Russia and Betrayed Ukraine, Lieutenant Colonel U.S. Army (retired) Alexander Vindman notes how, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, six U.S. presidential administrations of both parties pursued policies for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia that emboldened Russia. And Western indecision and apathy made possible the return of brutal Russian expansionism with catastrophic consequences. In The Dark Side of the Earth: Russia’s Short-lived Victory over Totalitarianism,…

In The Formula for Better Health: How to Save Millions of Lives – Including Your Own, former CDC director Tom Frieden, M.D., MPH, reveals how to defeat today’s deadliest diseases and prevent future pandemics. Drawing on decades of global experience and lessons from both triumphs and failures, he offers a clear path to protecting your health, strengthening communities, and closing the gap between science and life-saving action. Joining Frieden in conversation is author Carl Zimmer, Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe.…

Jack El-Hai’s The Nazi and the Psychiatrist: Hermann Göring, Dr. Douglas M. Kelley, and a Fatal Meeting of Minds at the End of WWII chronicles the improbable relationship between fallen Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring and ambitious U.S. Army physician Douglas Kelley, which becomes a hazardous quest into the nature of evil amid the devastation of Europe at the end of World War II. In The Girl Bandits of the Warsaw Ghetto: The True Story of Five Courageous Young Women Who Sparked an Uprising,…

In Charlie Jane Anders’ Lessons in Magic and Disaster, a young witch teaches her grieving mother magic with unexpected results. Jamie, a grad student with a powerful secret, helps her mother Serena come out of her shell. But hidden truths from Serena’s past and a mysterious 1749 book threaten to unravel them both – unless Jamie can uncover the scandal it hides and the true nature of magic. Yael and Margot, childhood friends, reunite at a decision time in their lives.…

During the historic dialogue between rabbis and the Dalai Lama, as told in his international bestseller The Jew in the Lotus, Rodger Kamenetz heard a penetrating question from His Holiness to the rabbis, “How does your spiritual practice purify afflictive emotions?” To Kamenetz, this seemed the most fundamental question to ask of any religion or philosophy of life. Embedded in a rich poetic narrative, Seeing into the Life of Things: Imagination and the Sacred Encounter offers down to earth practices from “count your blessings,” to savoring perception,…

This creative workshop will allow participants to design and paint their own custom picture frames using fun abstract art techniques. Kids will explore colorful shapes, swirls, and textures to create a unique frame that perfectly expresses their style. At the end, they’ll have a beautiful keepsake ready to hold their favorite photo. This event is a CREATE! featured workshop. All featured workshops require a FREE ticket to attend due to limited seating. Tickets may be picked up at the Info Booth in Children’s Alley;…

Join This Is Improv for interactive acting workshops where kids and families explore storytelling, imagination, and the joy of play!…

El presentador de televisión, actor y locutor venezolano Raúl González ofrece La verdad muere de pie, una autobiografía valiente e inspiradora que revela por fin la historia jamás contada de una de las figuras más queridas de los medios hispanos. En conversación con Militza González.   Compra La verdad muere de pie – González…

In Baldwin: A Love Story, Nicholas Boggs reveals how profoundly James Baldwin’s personal relationships shaped his life and work. Drawing on newly uncovered archival material and original research and interviews, this spellbinding book tells the overlapping stories of Baldwin’s most sustaining intimate and artistic relationships, spanning the Black American painter Beauford Delaney to the iconoclastic French artist Yoran Cazac, Baldwin’s long-overlooked last great love. Octavia Butler was a trailblazer. She was the first Black woman to write and publish science fiction at a time,…

You Must Take Part in Revolution: A Graphic Novel by Badiucao and Melissa Chan is a near-future dystopian tale exploring technology, authoritarianism, and the fight for freedom. In 2035, amid U.S.-China conflict and rising fascism, three youths pursue divergent paths toward change, confronting the personal and societal costs of resistance in a world where freedom is never guaranteed. In conversation with Jose Zamora, regional director for the Americas at the Committee to Protect Journalists.…

The Books for Free crew is taking over the tent, reading and chilling throughout the day. So grab a beanbag and settle in for a storytime session with your new B4F BFFs! Grades K-3. SPONSORED BY…

Careful what you wish for in Vanessa Montalban’s These Vengeful Wishes, in which a teen girl’s rage is ignited by a vengeful female spirit with a thirst for justice. The Summer I Ate The Rich by Maika Moulite & Maritza Moulite is a biting modern-day fable inspired by Haitian zombie lore that explores what happens when a Haitian American girl uses her previously hidden abilities to exact revenge on the wealthy elites who have caused her family pain.…

Enrique del Risco presenta El túnel al final de la luz. Cuba durante la perestroika,  una colección de ensayos y testimonios que abordan la revuelta cultural y social en Cuba durante la perestroika soviética y su posterior represión. Contribuyen artistas, curadores, escritores, directores de cine, religiosos y diversos activistas, ofreciendo múltiples perspectivas sobre este fenómeno. En conversación con Alejandro Ríos, Habey Hechevarría y Ricardo Quiza Moreno. Compra El túnel al final de la luz – Del Risco Compra Cubensis – Ríos…

Join poet and editor Pádraig Ó Tuama for a reading and conversation centered around 44 Poems on Being with Each Other: A Poetry Unbound Collection, an anthology that explores the beauty, complexity, and necessity of human connection. Ó Tuama, also the author of Kitchen Hymns – a tender collection that meditates on ritual, intimacy, and the sacred within the ordinary – will be joined by two acclaimed contributors: Denise Duhamel, whose new book Pink Lady: Poems is a vibrant,…

Inspired by a lifetime of activism, Catherine Coleman Flowers’ Holy Ground: On Activism, Environmental Justice, and Finding Hope is a collection of personal and political essays highlighting trailblazers who have fought for environmental and social justice. Flowers draws on history to illuminate and contextualize the most pressing issues of the moment, from climate change and human rights to rural poverty and reproductive justice. In Human Nature: Nine Ways to Feel About Our Changing Planet, Kate Marvel personalizes the science and stories behind climate change and her very human feelings about what’s happening on the only planet we have through emotions – wonder,…

In King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation, Scott Anderson traces the rise of religious nationalism, offering essential insights into today’s global unrest. With a spellbinding account of dictatorship, blind superpower, and world-shattering revolution, he delivers a bravura work of history and a warning for our time. Nilo Tabrizy and Fatemeh Jamalpour’s For the Sun After Long Nights: The Story of Iran’s Women-Led Uprising documents the Woman, Life, Freedom movement,…

This is a free event that requires a ticket for entry. David Margolick’s When Caesar Was King: How Sid Caesar Reinvented American Comedy is the first definitive biography of the founding father of television comedy. At his peak in the 1950s, 20 million Americans tuned in to Caesar’s show weekly to watch his groundbreaking humor. Despite burning out quickly – a victim of exhaustion, addiction, and his own impossible standards – he remains TV’s first comic giant. Susan Morrison’s Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live takes readers behind the curtain to tell the story of how Lorne Michaels created and maintained the program that changed comedy forever.…

Join Carole Demesmin, Dr. Jerry M. Gilles, M.D., and Roxane Ledan for a profound reflection on Vodou’s ongoing role in Haitian communities beyond the country’s borders. Demesmin, a mambo and performer, embodies Vodou’s living legacy through ritual, song, and spiritual counsel. Gilles’ Remembrance treats Vodou as a cultural and spiritual archive of African inheritance and ritual reverence. Ledan’s Vèvè Vodou Haïti preserves sacred vèvè symbols that signal connection, cosmology, and memory. Moderated by Carel Pedre,…