Fiction

When Luna – the world’s first Category 6 hurricane – hits Miami, it upends everything the Larsen-Hall family has taken for granted. Their deluxe home is destroyed, two members are missing, and their finances are abruptly cut off. Bruce Holsinger‘s The Displacements: A Novel explores what happens when privilege is lost and resilience is tested in a swiftly changing world. Lan Samantha Chang‘s The Family Chao: A Novel, Big Leo Chao, his wife, Winnie, and their sons own Fine Chao,…

A linked short story collection that moves between Nigeria and America, Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi‘s Jollof Rice and Other Revolutions: A Novel in Interlocking Stories offers a window into the world of four accomplished Nigerian women. As it explores loss, belonging, family, friendship, alienation, and silence, the book draws a portrait of women dealing with the notion that moving forward in time isn’t necessarily progress. Jenny Tinghui Zhang‘s debut Four Treasures of the Sky: A Novel tells the story of Daiyu.…

Family of Liars: We Were Liars by E. Lockhart is the story of another summer, another generation – and the secrets that will haunt them for decades to come. A windswept private island off the coast of Massachusetts. A hungry ocean, churning with secrets and sorrow. A fiery, addicted heiress. An irresistible, unpredictable boy. A summer of unforgivable betrayal and terrible mistakes. Welcome back to the Sinclair family. They were always liars. Moderated by Safon Floyd,…

White Horse: A Novel, a gritty debut from Erika T. Wurth, tells the story of Kari James, an Indigenous woman who must face her past when she discovers a bracelet haunted by her mother’s spirit. The journey to a truth long denied forces Kari to confront her dysfunctional relationships, thoughts about a friend she lost in childhood, and her desire for the one thing she’s always wanted but could never have. In Morowa Yejide‘s Creatures of Passage,…

In Jason Rekulak‘s Hidden Pictures: A Novel, Mallory Quinn takes a job as a babysitter looking after 5-year-old Teddy. He is a sweet, shy boy, always drawing. Then one day, he draws a man dragging a woman’s lifeless body in a forest. As his artwork becomes increasingly sinister, Mallory wonders if what she’s seeing are glimpses of an unsolved murder, relayed by a supernatural force. In Dwyer Murphy‘s An Honest Living: A Novel, an attorney who makes ends meet by picking up odd jobs takes what seems like a quick and easy assignment: find the husband of new client Anna Reddick.…

In When We Were Sisters: A Novel, Fatimah Asghar traces the intense bond of three orphaned siblings who, after their parents die, are left to raise one another. As Kausar, the youngest, grows up, she must contend with the collision of her private and public worlds, and choose whether to remain in the life of love, sorrow, and codependency she knows, or carve out a new path for herself. Rasheed Newson‘s debut novel, My Government Means to Kill Me: A Novel,…

For Ruthie, the frozen town of Waitsfield, Massachusetts, is all she has ever known. Once home to the country’s oldest and most illustrious families – the Cabots, the Lowells – by the end of the 20th century, it’s an unforgiving place awash with secrets. The Waitsfield of Sarah Manguso‘s Very Cold People: A Novel is a place to be survived, one from which a girl like Ruthie would be lucky to get out of alive. Lydia Millet‘s Dinosaurs is the story of Gil,…

Hernan Diaz‘s Trust: A Novel follows the wealthy Benjamin and Helen Rask in 1920s New York. Even in a decade of excess and speculation, at what cost have they acquired their immense fortune? The life of the unnamed narrator of Jill Bialosky‘s The Deceptions: A Novel is unraveling – and she seeks answers to the paradoxes of love, desire, and parenthood among the Greek and Roman gods at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Soon, she must choose between reality and myth.…

Megan Giddings‘ The Women Could Fly: A Novel is a piercing dystopian novel about the unbreakable bond between a young woman and her mysterious mother, set in a world in which witches are real and single women are closely monitored. Here, Giddings explores the limits women face – and the powers they have to transgress and transcend them. In Sandra Newman‘s The Men: A Novel, everyone with a Y chromosome suddenly disappears from the face of the Earth – doctors mid-surgery,…

From Nathan Hale, creator of the Hazardous Tales series, comes Let’s Make History! (Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales): Create Your Own Comics, an exciting activity book that puts kids’ writing, drawing, and researching to the test. Do you have what it takes to be a Hazardous Cartoonist? George O’Connor draws his Olympians series to a close with the tale of Olympians #12: Dionysos: The New God, from his birth to a mortal mother, to his discovery of wine,…

Namwali Serpell‘s The Furrows: A Novel tells the story of Cassandra Williams, who was 12 when her 7-year-old brother, Wayne, is lost forever. Years later, Cassandra meets a man mysterious and familiar, who is also searching for someone and his own place in the world. His name is Wayne. And in Jacinda Townsend‘s Mother Country: A Novel, a toddler in Morocco is adopted by a visiting African American woman. But the girl already has a mother – an undocumented Mauritanian who was trafficked as a teen – and the two women face an inevitable reckoning.…

In Zain Khalid’s Brother Alive: A Novel, three boys intertwined by circumstance – Dayo, Iseul, and Youssef – are adopted as infants and share a bedroom atop a mosque in Staten Island, New York. Their adoptive father, Imam Salim, carries secrets, and when as adults they follow him on his return to Saudi Arabia, they must decide if they should change who they are to survive or defend their deeply held beliefs. And in Elizabeth Nunez’s Now Lila Knows,…

In Zain Khalid‘s Brother Alive: A Novel, three boys intertwined by circumstance – Dayo, Iseul, and Youssef – are adopted as infants and share a bedroom atop a mosque in Staten Island, New York. Their adoptive father, Imam Salim, carries secrets, and when as adults they follow him on his return to Saudi Arabia, they must decide if they should change who they are to survive or defend their deeply held beliefs. In Nightcrawling: A Novel, Leila Mottley welcomes readers into Kiara Johnson’s world in Oakland,…

When Cara Romero loses her job, she is in her mid-50s and forced back into the job market for the first time in decades. In Angie Cruz‘s How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water: A Novel, we follow Cara in her sessions with a job counselor, where she narrates her life story and we come to know a woman buffeted by life but still full of fight. The Guerreros have lived in Nothar Park, a predominantly Dominican enclave of New York City,…

Blitz Bazawule‘s debut, The Scent of Burnt Flowers: A Novel, follows Melvin and his fiancé, Bernadette, from a parking lot in Alabama to Ghana. With a persistent FBI agent on their trail and an unexpected encounter with a highlife musician adding lust, magic, and danger, what was meant to be a fresh start quickly spirals into chaos, threatening their relationship and lives. The Perfume Burned His Eyes is Michael Imperioli‘s debut novel, an edgy coming-of-age story that follows Matthew from 1976,…

Laird Hunt‘s Zorrie: A Novel is set against a harsh, gorgeous, quintessentially American landscape, and spans Zorrie Underwood’s entire lifetime. It’s a life convulsed and transformed by the events of the 20th century and then, after finding love and community, a discovery that her trials have only begun. In Sabina Murray‘s The Human Zoo, Filipino American Christina “Ting” Klein travels from New York to Manila to escape her imminent divorce and start researching a book.…

El narrador peruano-español Jorge Eduardo Benavides presenta Volver a Shangri-La, novela sobre la nostalgia y el dolor que causan el amor y el exilio. Brenda Navarro, narradora, periodista y socióloga mexicana, ofrece Ceniza en la boca, una historia de separaciones y abandonos, de pérdidas e iniciación a la vida. El narrador, guionista y productor de cine José Ignacio Valenzuela, nacido en Chile, presenta Naufragios, que reúne tres novelas, cada una protagonizada por un personaje en medio de una crisis sentimental.…

In Book of Extraordinary Tragedies: A Novel, Aleksandar and Isobel – siblings and former classical music prodigies once destined for greatness – have been doomed by fate and a family history of failure. They’ve all but given up. But when illness forces Isobel and her young daughter to move back into the family home and she begins playing cello again, Aleks sees a world of possibility and wonder. In stories told in alternating voices, Jean Chen Ho‘s debut collection Fiona and Jane traces the lives of two young Taiwanese American women as they navigate friendship,…

In The Matchmaker’s Gift: A Novel, Lynda Cohen Loigman tells the stories of two women, two generations apart, and the rare gift of matchmaking and seeking soulmates. When Abby, a successful Manhattan divorce attorney, inherits a collection of handwritten journals written by her beloved grandmother, Sara Glikman, she finds more questions than answers in the stories of long-ago matches. What did Sara hope Abby would discover within its pages? Melodie Winawer‘s Anticipation: A Novel is set in the crumbling city of Mystras,…

Poeta, narradora, guionista, dramaturga, traductora y compositora de música popular puertorriqueña, María Juliana Villafañe comparte la edición bilingüe de su poemario Aires de Tormenta / Storm Winds en el que indaga en su propio ser para intentar dar respuestas a sus preocupaciones esenciales. Jaime Cabrera González, narrador y periodista colombiano, presenta En un bosque de la China, donde convergen cuentos, microrrelatos, anécdotas y recuerdos, sazonados con humor e imaginación. Eduardo Herrera Baullosa es poeta,…

In the horror graphic novel The Keeper, Steven Barnes and Tananarive Due tell the story of Aisha, a young Black girl devastated after losing her parents and trapped between her grandmother’s wish to protect her and their family’s dark history. Inspired by the Japanese “yokai” and the “jorogumo” spider demon, Alma Katsu‘s The Fervor: A Novel explores the horrors of the supernatural beyond the threat of the occult. It’s 1944, and as World War II rages on,…

Ann Leary‘s The Foundling: A Novel tells the story of two friends raised in the same orphanage who meet years later, in 1927, at a public asylum for women – one as an employee, the other an inmate. When Lillian begs Mary to help her escape, alleging the place is not what it seems, Mary’s decision triggers a hair-raising sequence of events with life-altering consequences. In Sarai Walker‘s The Cherry Robbers: A Novel, Iris Chapel and her five sisters,…

Jeff Lindsay‘s Three-Edged Sword: A Novel follows superthief Riley Wolfe. A rogue government agent has abducted the only two people Riley loves, and now he must do the man’s dirty work to set them free. Espionage, thievery, love, and betrayal – it looks like the only way out this time is through. In Ben Mezrich‘s The Midnight Ride: A Thriller, an MIT grad student unwittingly uncovers the hidden connection between the Gardner Museum heist and a fascinating secret in American history.…

In LaToya Watkins‘ Perish: A Novel, a Black Texan family explores the effects of inherited trauma and intergenerational violence as it comes together to say goodbye to their matriarch on her deathbed. Perish follows four members of the Turner family as their reunion brings out long-kept secrets and forces each member to ask questions about who is deserving of forgiveness – and blame. Kai Harris‘ What the Fireflies Knew: A Novel is a coming-of-age novel told by almost-11-year-old Kenyatta “KB” Bernice.…

Mary Alice Roth, the central character in Bobby Finger‘s The Old Place, retired from Billington High after nearly four decades just a few months ago, and she’s already bored. Billington, Texas, is a place where nothing changes. But then Mary Alice’s sister arrives with a piece of news that threatens friendships, questions the very fabric of Billington, and might force the unflappable Mary Alice to change after all. In Steven Rowley‘s The Guncle, Patrick, or Gay Uncle Patrick – aka “Guncle” – loves spending time with his niece and nephew.…

In Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney‘s Good Company: A Novel, Flora Mancini has been happily married for more than 20 years. But everything she thought she knew about herself, her marriage, and her best friend, Margot, is upended when she finds an envelope containing her husband’s wedding ring – the one he claimed he lost one summer. In Jean Hanff Korelitz‘s The Latecomer: A Novel, we follow a wealthy, New York City-based family, from the first meeting of the parents to their triplets born during the early days of IVF.…

Andrés Acosta presenta Su fantasmática presencia, novela histórica que recrea la vida y la época en que vivió el escritor Gustav Meyrink, autor de El Golem. Pablo De Santis llega con Academia Belladonna donde, en el Londres de los años 1930, un joven asiste a una escuela de asesinos con el objetivo de vengar la muerte de sus padres. Martha Riva Palacio Obón presenta El mono infinito, que aborda temas como el tiempo, la ciencia y la inteligencia artificial en un futuro postapocalíptico.…

In What the Bread Says: Baking with Love, History, and Papan, Vanessa Garcia relays how, when she was a little girl, she and her grandfather, Papan, baked bread while he shared the amazing adventures of his life. That’s how, as a child, Garcia learned about her roots – and how stories can carry us through no matter what. Sponsored by…

David Yoon‘s City of Orange: A Novel is an end-of-the-world story about reassembling the things that make us who we are and finding our way back home. A man wakes up in an unknown landscape, injured and alone. He used to live in a place called California. How did he wind up here with a head wound and a bottle of pills in his pocket? Growing up Black in rural North Carolina, Ray McMillian, the main character in Brendan Slocumb’s The Violin Conspiracy: A Novel,…

Like the other women in her Brooklyn Hasidic community, Raizl expects to find a husband through an arranged marriage. But unlike other women, Raizl has a secret: She’s addicted to porn. Felicia Berliner‘s debut Shmutz: A Novel explores how Raizl, caught between traditional and modern worlds, tries to balance her growing understanding of her sexuality with the more conventional expectations of the family she loves. In Susan Coll‘s Bookish People, indie bookstore owner Sophie Bernstein is burned out on books.…

Meng Jin‘s Self-Portrait with Ghost: Short Stories features 10 thematically linked stories. Written during the turbulent years of the Trump administration and the first year of the pandemic, they explore intimacy and isolation, coming of age, and coming to terms with the repercussions of past mistakes, fraying relationships, and surprising moments of connection. In The Islands: Stories, Dionne Irving looks at the history and condition of Jamaican women in locations and times ranging from 1950s London and 1960s Panama to modern-day New Jersey.…

William Dunlap‘s Brand Disloyalty presents 10 stories related to his previous short story collections in several ways. And, as with his earlier works, fiction often tells a greater truth than fact: “Language,” he asserts, “is something of a birthright for Southerners, and would be a shame to waste it on facts alone.”…

María Dueñas, la exitosa escritora española, llega a la Feria con Sira, novela donde la protagonista de El tiempo entre costuras transitará por escenarios como Londres, Tánger, Jerusalén y Madrid después de la segunda guerra mundial. Dueñas conversa con la periodista y escritora Mirta Ojito.…

Woman Without Shame: Poems is Sandra Cisneros‘ first book of poetry in 28 years. The collection comprises dozens of never-before-seen poems and includes songs, elegies, and declarations that chronicle her pilgrimage toward rebirth and the recognition of her prerogative as a woman artist. These are bluntly honest and often humorous meditations on memory, desire, and the essential nature of love. The stories in Manuel Muñoz‘s The Consequences are mostly set in the 1980s in the small towns surrounding Fresno.…

9.º Seminario de Literatura infantil y Lectura: “El derecho a decir quiénes somos”. Mundos imaginarios: Metáforas de libertad: Daína Chaviano con Alejandro Ríos.   En colaboración con…

In Jonathan Escoffery‘s If I Survive You: Stories, Topper, Sanya, and their two children flee to Miami in the 1970s to escape the political violence of their native Kingston, Jamaica. But America is hardly the promised land. The linked stories center on Trelawny, the couple’s youngest son, as he struggles to carve out a place for himself amid financial disaster, racism, and bad luck. In A.M. Homes‘ The Unfolding: A Novel, the Big Guy loves his family,…

In Laura Warrell‘s Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm: A Novel, a 41-year-old Boston-based trumpet player and old-school ladies’ man learns that the woman closest to his heart is pregnant by him. His response is to flee, which sets off a chain of interlocking revelations from the various women in his life. It’s a story about unrequited love and the perennial dangers of desire. Tia Williams‘ Seven Days in June: A Novel is a story of love found,…

In Scott Turow‘s Suspect: A Thriller, three male police officers accuse Lucia Gomez, the police chief in the city of Highland Isle, of soliciting sex for promotions. She insists the accusations are designed to destroy her career and empower her enemies, and as her attorney, Rik Dudek, and his investigator, Clarice “Pinky” Granum, search for answers, they get drawn into the deepest recesses of the city’s criminal networks. In Hell and Back: A Longmire Mystery, the 18th installment of Craig Johnson‘s Longmire series,…

In Sascha Rothchild‘s Blood Sugar: A Novel, Ruby may be a murderer – a three-time murderer, to be exact – but she isn’t a sociopath. When her beloved husband, Jason, is murdered, the homicide detectives at Miami Beach P.D. have questions. Ironically, this is one murder that Ruby didn’t not commit, and she needs to clear her name. It’s a mystery that’s an addicting mixture of sour and sweet. In Deb Rogers‘ Florida Woman: A Novel,…

In Sara Farizan‘s Dead Flip, it’s 1992, and two 17-year-old ex-best friends must solve the mystery of their third friend’s disappearance when he returns – and he’s still 12 years old. The Getaway by Lamar Giles follows Jay and his crew, employees trapped in a theme park that turns out to be an end-of-the-world oasis for the world’s richest and most powerful families – how far will they go to find out the truth and save themselves? …

In Homesickness, Colin Barrett brings together eight character-driven stories, following the lives of outcasts, misfits, and malcontents from County Mayo, Ireland, to Canada. There are ghosts who won’t lay in wake, a policewoman confronting the banality of her existence, and an aspiring writer grappling with his father’s cancer diagnosis. Each tale in this collection is a showcase for his observant eye and darkly humorous style. The stories in Bojan Louis‘ gritty debut Sinking Bell: Stories, depict violent collisions of love,…

El narrador y periodista colombiano Juan Carlos Botero presenta Los hechos causales, una novela que transcurre entre 1980 y 1990, una de las etapas más violentas de Colombia. Inés Martín Rodrigo, escritora y periodista, ofrece Las formas del querer (Premio Nadal 2022), libro en el que cuenta las historias de una familia española desde la guerra civil hasta la transición a la democracia. El narrador y profesor universitario mexicano Pedro Ángel Palou llega con México.…

The Curse on Spectacle Key by Chantel Acevedo is a sweetly spooky ghost story about a Cuban American boy who befriends a pair of spirits and tries to break the curse on his island home, only to discover a seemingly lost piece of his family’s history in the process. Christina Diaz Gonzalez‘s Invisible: A Graphic Novel follows five very different students who are forced together by their school to complete community service…and may just have more in common than they thought.…

Jonathan Evison‘s Small World: A Novel is set against such iconic backdrops as the California gold rush, the development of the transcontinental railroad, and a speeding train of modern-day strangers forced together by fate. In exploring their lives and those of their ancestors, Small World chronicles 170 years of American nation-building from numerous points of view across place and time – and asks whether our nation has made good on its promises. In The Angel of Rome: And Other Stories,…

In Etaf Rum‘s A Woman Is No Man: A Novel, Deya, Isra, and Fareeda – three Palestinian American women spanning as many generations – deal with their roles and the expectations of their community. Isra and her eldest daughter, Deya, prefer books and college to arranged marriages. Fareeda, the traditionalist matriarch, believes a woman’s future depends on marrying the right man. Susan Abulhawa‘s Against the Loveless World: A Novel, tells the story of Nahr, a young Palestinian woman fighting for a better life for her family as she travels as a refugee throughout the Middle East.…

Set in Cuba in 1998, Ernesto Mestre-Reed‘s Sacrificio: A Novel is a triumphant work of violence, loss, and identity, following a group of young HIV-positive counterrevolutionaries who seek to overthrow the Castro government. Captured on its pages are the fury, passion, fatalism, and grim humor of young lives lived at the margins of a society they desperately wish to change. In Andrea Yaryura Clark‘s On a Night of a Thousand Stars: A Novel, the daughter of a wealthy Argentine diplomat living large in New York gets curious about her father’s life in the years leading up to the military dictatorship and Argentina’s “Dirty War” of the late 1970s.…

Set in Victorian London, J.M. Miro‘s Ordinary Monsters: A Novel follows two children with paranormal powers. Charlie Ovid’s body heals itself, erasing the scars of a brutal childhood. Foundling Marlowe glows with a strange bluish light and can melt or mend flesh. As they discover the truth about their abilities – and find other children with supernatural gifts – a new question arises: What truly defines a monster? In her debut novel, Thistlefoot, GennaRose Nethercott offers a modern reinterpretation of the myth of Baba Yaga.…

El escritor y periodista chileno Cristian Alarcón presenta El tercer paraíso, ​​una novela donde la historia, la botánica y la historia familiar influyen en el protagonista y marcan su carácter. Un relato sobre la vida cotidiana de una persona, pero también acerca de las tragedias colectivas que nos acechan y el paraíso personal que construimos como refugio para salvarnos. En conversación con la periodista Gisela Salomón.…

In Brian Fies‘ The Last Mechanical Monster, an elderly scientist reenters society decades after being imprisoned for threatening his city with an army of giant robots. He’s bent on revenge, but as he experiences genuine kindness and friendship for the first time in his life, his single-minded devotion to vengeance is challenged. Moderating is Charles Kochman, editorial director of Abrams ComicArts, and editor of the #1 bestselling Diary of a Wimpy Kid series and Fies’…

In I Guess I Live Here Now by Claire Ahn, Melody finds herself suddenly swept from New York City to Seoul with its trendsetting fashion, delectable food, her dad’s black card, and a cute boy to explore the city with – until cracks begin to form on its glittering surface. In Kat Cho‘s Once Upon a K-Prom, Elena would rather save her local community center than go to prom – until an international K-pop superstar (and her childhood best friend) shows up at her house to ask her to go and fulfill a promise made as kids.…

Writers with ties to Jamaica will celebrate the 60th anniversary of the island nation’s independence. Reading from their own work, Olive Senior, Hurricane Watch: New & Collected Poems, Dionne Irving, The Islands: Stories, and Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You: Stories, will ponder the past and present to speculate about the obstacles and opportunities that lie ahead. Moderating is Tanya Batson-Savage, Jamaican writer, filmmaker, and publisher. Media Partners…

In Kimberly Garza‘s The Last Karankawas, Carly Castillo has only ever known Fish Village, the neighborhood that’s home to the people who, for generations, have powered Galveston, Texas. But she begins to imagine a life lived elsewhere, and as a storm gathers strength offshore it’s time to decide whether to hunker down or leave for good. And in Xochitl Gonzalez‘s Olga Dies Dreaming: A Novel, political corruption, familial strife, and the American dream converge. Set in New York City in the months around the most devastating hurricane in Puerto Rico’s history,…

In Marie Rutkoski‘s Real Easy: A Novel, there’s a murder and a missing person involving two Lovely Lady strip club dancers. Holly, the detective, and Georgia, a dancer that wants to help, round up their suspects as the story’s point of view shifts between dancers, detectives, children, club patrons – and the killer. In Secret Identity: A Novel, Alex Segura uses his expertise as a comics creator and his unabashed love of noir fiction to create a one-of-a-kind novel – a writer and her female superhero,…

José Fernández Pequeño presenta el volumen de cuentos Se cortan chazo, donde la cultura cubana y la dominicana se entrelazan y constituyen una forma de entender la vida. Janisset Rivero llega con Cartas a Pedro, novela que narra dos historias de amor que transcurren paralelamente en una sociedad distópica, y Kirmen Uribe ofrece La vida anterior de los delfines, un relato donde confluyen historias familiares, sucesos históricos y el folclor. Los tres autores conversan con la narradora,…

Soman Chainani reveals the origins of his fairytale retellings in The Rise of the School for Good and Evil, a prequel filled with magic, surprises, and daring deeds that test courage, loyalty, and who you really are. Moderated by Lael Ponder, a middle school student and member of MBF’s Speak Up! creative writing program for teens.  Grades 3-8 Sponsored by…

In Susie Jaramillo‘s Skeletina and the In-Between World, we meet the title character, a fun-loving and fearless little girl who lives in the in-between world, a place where the living go when they’re asleep and where the dead hang out when they have unfinished business. Children visit to confront their fears or to see a recently lost loved one, and Skeletina is their guide.…

Based on true-life events, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni‘s The Last Queen: A Novel of Courage and Resistance tells the story of Jindan, who transformed herself from a daughter of the keeper of the royal kennel to a powerful monarch. As the last reigning queen of India’s Sikh Empire, the once pampered wife became a warrior ruler to protect her people from the encroaching British Empire. Moderating is Meenakshi Narula Ahamed, author of A Matter of Trust: India U.S.…

The National Book Foundation presents the 2022 National Book Award longlisters, finalists, and winners, in an annual super-sized showcase of readings and conversation, moderated by Ruth Dickey, executive director of the National Book Foundation. Featuring Fatimah Asghar, Derrick Barnes, Isaac Blum, Sarah Booker, Traci Chee, Johnnie Christmas, Jennifer Croft, Ramona Emerson, Jonathan Escoffery,…

9.º Seminario de Literatura infantil y Lectura: “El derecho a decir quiénes somos”   En colaboración con…

Una conversación sobre la forma en que la estética, la temática y la profundidad de los textos de las autoras de origen hispano que escriben en los Estados Unidos está redefiniendo la literatura contemporánea. Keila Vall de la Ville, Los días animales, Kelly Martínez-Grandal, Muerte con campanas, y Grethel Delgado Álvarez, Sancho, dialogan con los editores Pedro Medina León y Gastón Virkel, moderados por Adriana Pacheco.…

Tres autoras argentinas que vienen pisando fuerte en el mapa literario: Mariana Sández, narradora, periodista y ensayista, presenta Una casa llena de gente, relato que se sumerge en los espacios privados y comunes de un edificio y sus habitantes para reconstruir una memoria personal y colectiva. Periodista y escritora, Dolores Gil llega con Parte de la felicidad, un ensayo íntimo que se propone desentrañar una tragedia familiar para recuperar la luz y la esperanza. Florencia del Campo,…

Alan Moore is widely regarded as the best and most influential writer in the history of comics. Illuminations: Stories is his first short story collection and spans 40 years of his work. In “A Hypothetical Lizard,” two concubines in a brothel of fantastical specialists fall in love with tragic ramifications. In “Not Even Legend,” a paranormal study group is infiltrated by one of the otherworldly beings they seek to investigate. In the title story, a nostalgic older man decides to visit a seaside resort from his youth and finds the past close at hand.…

The protagonist of Percival Everett’s Dr. No: A Novel is a brilliant professor of mathematics who goes by “Wala Kitu.” Wala, he explains, means “nothing” in Tagalog, as does Kitu, in Swahili – he is an expert on nothing. That is to say, he is an expert, and his area of study is nothing, and he does nothing about it. This makes him the perfect partner for aspiring villain John Sill, whose desire to become a literal Bond villain originated in some genuine nefariousness around the murder of Martin Luther King Jr.…

Carmen Mola (el seudónimo de Antonio Mercero, Jorge Díaz y Agustín Martínez) habla del fenómeno de La novia gitana y de la serie de novela negra de Elena Blanco. Los autores conversan con su editora, María Fasce, directora literaria de Alfaguara.…

BookTok Book Talk! Rosie Graham, the main character in Elena Armas’ The American Roommate Experiment: A Novel, wants to focus on her secret career as a romance writer and quits her day job to do that – and now she has terrible writer’s block. Then her best friend’s cousin, Lucas, proposes an experiment: He’ll take her on a series of dates just meant to jump-start her romantic inspiration. Rosie has nothing to lose, so why not? In Sophie Irwin’s A Lady’s Guide to Fortune-Hunting: A Novel,…

Sergio Ramírez, Premio Cervantes 2017, narrador, ensayista, periodista, político y abogado nicaragüense presenta su nueva obra Tongolele no sabía bailar, una novela negra sobre Nicaragua y el fin del sueño de la revolución. El autor conversa con la escritora, socióloga y docente universitaria guatemalteca Denise Phé-Funchal.…

First published in French in 1996, later published in English, revised and augmented in 1999, Patrick Lemoine’s (Haiti) Fort-Dimanche, Fort-La-Mort/Fort Dimanche, Dungeon of Death is a poignant testimony of his years spent in the jails of Fort-Dimanche under the regime of Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier. It bears witness to the extraordinary capacity of a man to face adversity and horror while fighting to maintain his dignity. Moderated by author M.J. Fievre, ReadCaribbean coordinator. In English with Haitian Creole subtitles.…

Hala Alyan’s The Arsonists’ City is the saga of a geographically and emotionally scattered family – Syrian mother, Lebanese father, and three American children – compelled to reunite at their ancestral home in Beirut, where tensions, secrets, and ancient slights come to the fore. Moderated by author Diana Abu-Jaber, Fencing With the King: A Novel. To livestream this event visit MiamiBookFairOnline.com. This event requires a ticket for admission. All in-person events at MBF 2021 will require a ticket for entry.…