Fiction
Take a look at any bestseller list – the buzziest fiction books and writers there are at Miami Book Fair. Escape with them to new worlds, meet fascinating figures, and lose yourself in other lives. Your favorite storytellers – some you know, some you’ve yet to meet – are waiting.
Past Events
November 2022
No es un boom. Ellas siempre escribieron.
Marta Barrio, editora y novelista española, presenta Leña menuda, en la que narra la historia de una mujer joven que ve frustrados sus deseos de ser madre. Poeta y narradora argentina, Valeria Correa Fiz ofrece Hubo un jardín, siete cuentos que exploran las relaciones de los protagonistas con la naturaleza exterior y su mundo interior. La narradora y ensayista colombiana Margarita García Robayo presenta La encomienda, que aborda la fuerza de las relaciones familiares en la vida de una joven. …
Bruce Holsinger & Lan Samantha Chang: A Conversation
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,…
Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi, Jenny Tinghui Zhang & Mecca Jamilah Sullivan: A Conversation
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.…
E. Lockhart on Family of Liars: The Prequel to We Were Liars: Young Adult Fiction
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,…
Erika T. Wurth & Morowa Yejide: A Conversation
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,…
Jason Rekulak & Dwyer Murphy With Gio Gutierrez: A Conversation
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.…
Fatimah Asghar, Rasheed Newson & Moriel Rothman-Zecher: A Conversation
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,…
Sarah Manguso & Lydia Millet: A Conversation
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, Jill Bialosky & Karen Joy Fowler: A Conversation
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 & Sandra Newman: A Conversation
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,…
Mortals & Monsters: Choose Your Own Comic Adventure: Nathan Hale, George O’Connor & Jason Shiga
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 & Jacinda Townsend: A Conversation
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.…
Zain Khalid & Elizabeth Nunez: A Conversation
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,…
Zain Khalid & Leila Mottley: A Conversation
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,…
Angie Cruz, Cleyvis Natera & Ru Freeman: A Conversation
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 & Michael Imperioli: A Conversation
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, Sabina Murray & Sloane Crosley: A Conversation
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.…
Amor y pasión en la narrativa de hoy
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.…
Joe Meno, Jean Chen Ho, Sanae Lemoine & Soon Wiley: A Conversation
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,…
Lynda Cohen Loigman, Melodie Winawer & Rochelle Weinstein: A Conversation
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,…
Letras made in the 305
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,…
Steven Barnes, Tananarive Due, Alma Katsu & Silvia Moreno-Garcia: A Conversation
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, Sarai Walker & Phong Nguyen: A Conversation
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, Ben Mezrich & Megan Abbott: A Conversation
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.…
LaToya Watkins, Kai Harris & Janelle Williams With Phoebe Robinson: A Conversation
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.…
Bobby Finger, Steven Rowley & Shelby Van Pelt: A Conversation
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.…
Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney, Jean Hanff Korelitz & Dani Shapiro: A Conversation
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.…
De crímenes y oscuridades
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.…
Vanessa Garcia Picture Book Story Time: Children’s Fiction
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 & Brendan Slocumb: A Conversation
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,…
Felicia Berliner & Susan Coll: A Conversation
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, Dionne Irving & Ingrid Rojas Contreras: A Conversation
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 on Brand Disloyalty: Fiction
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.”…
Una tarde con María Dueñas y Mirta Ojito
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.…
Sandra Cisneros & Manuel Muñoz: A Conversation
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”
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…
Jonathan Escoffery & A.M. Homes With Yvonne Conza: A Conversation
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,…
Laura Warrell, Tia Williams & Tomi Obaro: A Conversation
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,…
Scott Turow, Craig Johnson & Brad Meltzer: A Conversation
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,…
Sascha Rothchild, Deb Rogers & Virginia Hartman: A Conversation
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,…
“Disturbia”: Sara Farizan, Lamar Giles & Ryan La Sala
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? …
Colin Barrett & Bojan Louis: A Conversation
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,…
Países como protagonistas de novelas
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.…
“I Get by With a Little Help From My Friends”: Chantel Acevedo, Christina Diaz Gonzalez, Maulik Pancholy & Sherri Winston
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, Jess Walter, Jonathan Ames & Antoine Wilson: A Conversation
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,…
“Palestinian Lives: Past & Present”: Etaf Rum, Susan Abulhawa & Suad Amiry
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.…
Ernesto Mestre-Reed, Andrea Yaryura Clark & David Unger: A Conversation
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.…
J.M. Miro, GennaRose Nethercott & Yaffa S. Santos: A Conversation
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.…
Premio Alfaguara 2022: Cristian Alarcón
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.…
Speakers: Brian Fies, Charles Kochman
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’…
“Love Yourself: Trendsetters, K-Pop Stars & Old Flames”: Claire Ahn, Kat Cho & Natalia Sylvester
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.…
“Out of Many, One People”: Olive Senior, Dionne Irving & Jonathan Escoffery
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…
Kimberly Garza & Xochitl Gonzalez: A Conversation
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,…
Marie Rutkoski, Alex Segura & Steve Almond: A Conversation
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,…
Realismo y fantasía en la literatura
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: “Daring Deeds & Helpful Heroes”
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…
Susie Jaramillo Picture Book Story Time: Children’s Fiction
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.…
“India: Women’s Lives, Historical & Contemporary”: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni With Meenakshi Ahamed
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.…
National Book Foundation Presents: The 2022 National Book Awards
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: Apertura
9.º Seminario de Literatura infantil y Lectura: “El derecho a decir quiénes somos” En colaboración con…
Kwame Mbalia on Rick Riordan Presents Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky, the Graphic Novel: Middle Grade Fiction
In Kwame Mbalia’s Rick Riordan Presents Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky, the Graphic Novel, seventh grader Tristan Strong feels anything but strong ever since he failed to save his best friend when they were in a bus accident together. All he has left of Eddie is the journal his friend wrote stories in. On his first night at his grandparents’ farm in Alabama, a sticky creature shows up in his bedroom and steals Eddie’s notebook.…
Hablemos Escritoras: autoras hispanas desde los Estados Unidos
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.…
Narradoras industria argentina
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 With Eva Prinz & Thurston Moore: A Conversation
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.…
Percival Everett on Dr. No: A Novel: Fiction
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.…
El fenómeno Carmen Mola
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.…
Elena Armas & Sophie Irwin With Ayman: A Conversation
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,…
Una tarde con Sergio Ramírez
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.…
November 2021
In Conversation: Three Debut Authors on Fantasy & Identity
Nana Nkweti’s debut collection Walking on Cowrie Shells: Stories is also a virtuosic display of genre-bending. She draws freely from mystery and horror stories, realism, myth, and graphic novels. There are tales about a zombie outbreak in West Africa and a selfless mermaid, but also a skewering of racial prejudice and international adoption. Dominican American author Brenda Peynado’s first collection of short works, The Rock Eaters: Stories, is threaded with magic. Her tales explore issues ranging from class differences to immigration and first-generation experiences to xenophobia,…
In Conversation: Three Writers on Myth, Migration & Mourning
Talia, the protagonist of Patricia Engel’s Infinite Country: A Novel, is being held at a correctional facility in Colombia. Her father and a plane ticket to the U.S. are waiting for her back home in Bogotá. And her story, a tale of how her family came to be in two different countries and two different worlds, comes into focus like twists of a kaleidoscope. In Concepcion: An Immigrant Family’s Fortunes, Albert Samaha moves across decades and countries as he questions the belief in a better future that inspired his family to uproot themselves from the Philippines.…
In Conversation: On Monster in the Middle: A Novel & The Final Revival of Opal & Nev
Tiphanie Yanique’s Monster in the Middle follows Fly and Stella across decades, from the United States to the Virgin Islands to Ghana and back again, as they deal with their families’ lore and love stories now shaping their own experience. To answer the question “Who are we meant to be with?” we must first understand who we are and how we came to be. Fiercely independent Opal, the central character in Dawnie Walton’s The Final Revival of Opal &…
In Conversation: On Here Lies a Father: A Novel & Disappearing Earth: A Novel
At his father’s funeral, Ian Daly finds out that he abandoned two other families, two wives, and several children who never knew their father. Mckenzie Cassidy’s Here Lies a Father: A Novel examines the impact of secrets on a family, and how to relearn right and wrong when every value and moral principle you’ve been taught was based on a lie. In Julia Phillips’ novel Disappearing Earth – a National Book Award in Fiction finalist – two sisters living in the far eastern Russian peninsula of Kamchatka mysteriously go missing.…
In Conversation: On All’s Well: A Novel
Miranda Fitch, the protagonist of Mona Awad’s All’s Well: A Novel, is in all kinds of pain. The accident that ended her acting career left her with excruciating chronic back pain, a failed marriage, and a dependence on painkillers. She’s now on the verge of losing her job as a college theater director – and that’s when she meets three odd benefactors. Moderated by writer, editor, and radio producer Cary Barbor. Captioning and Audience Q&A: To access the live-captioning option and/or submit questions for the audience Q&A,…
In Conversation: On Those We Throw Away Are Diamonds: A Refugee’s Search for Home & Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
Mondiant Dogon, a Bagogwe Tutsi born in the Democratic Republic of Congo, was 3 years old when he and his family escaped certain death in Rwanda. They would spend decades in United Nations tent cities. Drawing from these personal experiences, Dogon opens a new, different window into the plight of displaced people in Those We Throw Away Are Diamonds: A Refugee’s Search for Home. In Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Andrea Elliott follows eight years in the life of Dasani,…
Afro-Caribbean Men: Stories of Triumph & Empowerment Part I
In his memoir Saga Boy: My Life of Blackness and Becoming, Antonio Michael Downing (Trinidad) traces the arc, through loss and displacement, of his search for identity, from a boy in a tiny village in the tropical forests of Trinidad raised by his religious grandmother, to becoming a “Saga Boy” – a West Indian playboy archetype – living in Canada. As a 14-year-old, Marlon Peterson (Trinidad) suffered terrible violence. At 19 he was involved in a violent crime himself and served seven years in prison as a result.…
Afro-Caribbean Men: Stories of Triumph & Empowerment Part II
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.…
In Conversation: On You Exist Too Much: A Novel & With Teeth
Opening up the fantasies and desires of one young woman caught between cultural, religious, and sexual identities, Zaina Arafat’s You Exist Too Much addresses two of our most intense longings – love and a place to call home. Kristen Arnett’s With Teeth tells the surprising and moving story of two mothers, one difficult son, and the limitations of marriage, parenthood, and love. It’s not only a candid take on queer family dynamics, but also on the delicate fabric of family,…
In Conversation: Two Thrill Writers Traverse the Genre
In James Grippando’s Twenty: A Jack Swyteck Novel, attorney Jack must defend the son of a family friend who’s just confessed to a mass school shooting. Now he must unearth the Khoury family’s secrets to expose a shocking truth and save his client. Written by Charles Lichtman, an expert in Middle East affairs and terrorism-related issues, The Sword of David: A Novel is an action-packed thriller that tells the story of an Israeli commando traveling across the globe,…
In Conversation: On American Estrangement: Stories
In Saïd Sayrafiezadeh’s American Estrangement: Stories, characters contend with internal struggles – a son’s fractured relationship with his father, the death of a mother, drug addiction – while being battered by the larger, often invisible forces of economics, politics, and race. Moderated by Ariel Gonzalez, writer and professor of English and communications at Miami Dade College. 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.…
In Conversation: On What Storm, What Thunder: A Novel
Myriam J. A. Chancy‘s What Storm, What Thunder: A Novel recounts the aftermath of a 7.0 magnitude earthquake in Port-au-Prince, delivering both a haunting record of heartbreaking trauma and a testimony to the tenacity of the human spirit. Moderated by Guerda Nicolas, Ph.D., professor at the University of Miami School of Education and Human Development. This event requires a ticket for admission. All in-person events at MBF 2021 will require a ticket for entry. Tickets will be available to Friends of the Fair October 18 and to the general public November 3.…
In Conversation: On Island Queen: A Novel & Black Girls Must Die Exhausted: A Novel
Vanessa Riley’s Island Queen: A Novel is based on the incredible true-life story of Dorothy Kirwan Thomas, a free woman of color who rose from slavery – she bought her freedom and that of her sister and her mother from her Irish planter father – to become one of the wealthiest and most powerful landowners in the colonial West Indies. Jayne Allen’s debut fiction work, Black Girls Must Die Exhausted: A Novel, is the first installment in a three-book series about modern womanhood.…
In Conversation: On Matrix: A Novel
Lauren Groff’s Matrix: A Novel follows 17-year-old Marie de France as she’s cast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Aquitaine and into a new life as the prioress of an impoverished abbey. Steadily supplanting her desire for a family, homeland, and the passions of her youth with a growing devotion to her fellow sisters, Marie begins to chart a different course – one led by divine vision. Moderated by Mitchell Kaplan, Miami Book Fair and Books &…
In Conversation: 72nd Annual National Book Award Winners
Newly-minted 2021 National Book Award Winners Aneesa Abbas Higgins (Winter in Sokcho by Elisa Shua Dusapin, Translated Literature), Martín Espada (Floaters, Poetry), Malinda Lo (Last Night at the Telegraph Club, Young People’s Literature), Tiya Miles (All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake, Nonfiction), and Jason Mott (Hell of a Book, Fiction) join the National Book Foundation’s Executive Director Ruth Dickey for an on-screen conversation and celebration of their recognized work across genre.…
In Conversation: On The Very Nice Box: A Novel & The Other Black Girl: A Novel
The Very Nice Box: A Novel, from co-authors Laura Blackett and Eve Gleichman, is an offbeat, wryly funny debut that blends workplace satire and mystery around a core theme of triumph after tragedy. As it follows the troubled relationship between the only two Black women working in a major publishing house, Zakiya Dalila Harris’ The Other Black Girl becomes both a smart, dynamic thriller and a sly social commentary. Moderated by Dr.…
In Conversation: On Until We’re Fish: A Novel & Letters from Cuba
Susannah Rodriguez Drissi’s coming-of-age story Until We’re Fish: A Novel blends love and the romance, violence, mood, and ethos of the Cuban Revolution. It’s a gossamer tale of political defiance and hearts set adrift, and of two ordinary characters: childhood sweethearts Elio and Maria, people willing to sacrifice everything to be free. When Esther follows her father’s escape to Cuba as the situation for Jews worsens in Poland on the eve of WWII, she promises her sister to write to her sharing everything she experiences until they reunite.…
In Conversation: On The Arsonists’ City
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.…
Mitch Albom: On The Stranger in the Lifeboat: A Novel
In The Stranger in the Lifeboat: A Novel, Mitch Albom asks what would happen if we called on God for help and God actually appeared? It’s a question that must be contemplated by a group of shipwrecked passengers, adrift in a raft after a ship explosion and struggling to survive. But when they pull a strange man from the water claiming to be “the Lord,” he tells them that salvation may be theirs – if they all believe in him.…
In Conversation: On L.A. Weather: A Novel
In María Amparo Escandón‘s L.A Weather: A Novel, Los Angeles is parched and dry as a bone. And all Oscar – the weather-obsessed patriarch of the Alvarado family – wants, desperately, is a little rain. But he also has a secret. His wife, Keila, tired of too little intimacy and too much Weather Channel, feels she has no choice but to end their marriage. And it’s a choice that pushes Oscar, Keila, and their three daughters to question everything they know.…
An Evening With Dantiel W. Moniz & Deesha Philyaw: On Milk Blood Heat: Stories & The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
IMPORTANT: Please note that we have changed the location of this event. The event will now take place in the Auditorium (Building 1, 2nd Floor, Room 1261). Set in the cities and suburbs of Florida, the 11 short works in Dantiel W. Moniz’s debut collection, Milk Blood Heat: Stories, delve into the ordinary worlds of young girls, women, and men who find themselves confronted by extraordinary moments of violent personal reckoning. These stories explore human connection,…
In Conversation: On Swimming Back to Trout River: A Novel
Linda Rui Feng’s Swimming Back to Trout River: A Novel is set against the backdrop of China’s Cultural Revolution in the 1980s. It follows a father’s quest to return from America and fulfill a promise to retrieve his daughter by her 12th birthday and reunite his family, even if it means bringing painful family secrets to light. Moderated by author Weike Wang.…
In Conversation: On The House of Rust: A Novel
The House of Rust: A Novel by Khadija Abdalla Bajaber is a magical realist coming-of-age tale told through the lens of the Swahili and Hadrami culture in Mombasa, Kenya. It tells the story of Aisha as she takes to the sea on a magical boat made of a skeleton’s bones to rescue her missing fisherman father. There are talking cats and sea monsters – and then things get strange. Moderated by author Helon Habila.…
In Conversation: On The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois: A Novel
In her fiction debut, The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois: A Novel, author Honorée Fanonne Jeffers follows Ailey Pearl Garfield as she embarks on a journey through her family’s past – from centuries of colonial slave trade and the Civil War to our present conflicted era – to come to terms with her identity. Moderated by Leigh Haber, books editor for O, The Oprah Magazine.…
In Conversation: On What About the Baby? Some Thoughts on the Art of Fiction
In What About the Baby? Some Thoughts on the Art of Fiction, acclaimed novelist Alice McDermott shares wisdom about her chosen art. It is knowledge earned over a lifetime as an acclaimed writer and teacher of writing. There’s much to explore here, from technical advice and wry musings about success to that rarity: uncommon common sense. Moderated by Jonathan Galassi, editor and president of Farrar, Straus and Giroux.…
In Conversation: On 2034: A Novel of the Next World War
In 2034: A Novel of the Next World War, the work of co-authors Elliot Ackerman and retired Admiral James Stavridis, two seemingly unconnected events – one on the edge of Iranian airspace, the other in the South China Sea – leaves America’s military preeminence in tatters, and renders U.S. ships and planes defenseless.…
In Conversation: On A Calling for Charlie Barnes
The life of the title character in Joshua Ferris’ A Calling for Charlie Barnes is not going well. He wants out and into the American dream. As his hopes dwindle, something goes right, and he’s granted a second act. But it calls for a sacrifice that redounds with selflessness and love. Moderated by writers Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan, co-hosts of the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast on LitHub Radio.…
In Conversation: On A Line to Kill: A Novel
In A Line to Kill: A Novel, former Detective Inspector Daniel Hawthorne and his sidekick, author Anthony Horowitz, are invited to an exclusive literary festival. They never expected to find themselves in the middle of a murder investigation there – or to be trapped with a cold-blooded killer. Moderated by author and editor Otto Penzler.…
In Conversation: On A River Called Time: A Novel & The Ninth Metal
Courttia Newland‘s A River Called Time: A Novel is set at the Ark, a massive structure in the center of Dinium – an alternative London – that promised a utopian existence for those invited. Markriss Denny is one of the chosen – but once inside, he uncovers the truth about the Ark, himself, and the people he once thought he knew. In Benjamin Percy’s The Ninth Metal, a meteor shower brings to Earth a new metal – one that possesses world-changing properties as an energy source and a weapon – to Northfall,…
In Conversation: On A Song Everlasting: A Novel
In Ha Jin‘s A Song Everlasting: A Novel, famous Chinese singer Yao Tian, in the U.S. on a state-supported tour, takes a private gig in New York to pick up extra cash for his daughter’s tuition fund. There’s nothing to it – until the government finds that supporters of Taiwan’s secession sponsored the event, placing Tian’s artistic and personal freedom at risk. Moderated by writers Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan, co-hosts of the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast on LitHub Radio.…
In Conversation: On I Love You but I’ve Chosen Darkness: A Novel
Claire Vaye Watkins’ I Love You but I’ve Chosen Darkness: A Novel chronicles one woman’s furious revisiting of family, marriage, work, sex, and motherhood, set against a darkly funny confrontation with a past that’s suddenly demanding her attention. Moderated by writer Molly Tolsky, founder of HeyAlma.com.…
In Conversation: On In the Company of Killers: A Novel
In Bryan Christy’s thriller In the Company of Killers: A Novel, Tom Klay is an investigative reporter leading a double life as a CIA spy. But when his closest friend is murdered, his carefully constructed double life unravels – and the deeper he digs the more he realizes that everything he thought he knew about his work may have been a lie. Moderated by author Philip Mudd, CNN counterterrorism analyst.…
In Conversation: On Libertie: A Novel & Great Circle: A Novel
Kaitlyn Greenidge‘s Libertie: A Novel follows the coming of age of Libertie Sampson in a free Black community in Reconstruction-era Brooklyn, as she tries to parse what freedom means for a Black woman. The story, rich with historical detail, is inspired by the life of one of the first Black female doctors in the United States. From Maggie Shipstead comes Great Circle: A Novel, an epic story of two captivating women 100 years apart – Marian,…
In Conversation: On New York, My Village: A Novel
In New York, My Village: A Novel by Uwem Akpan, Nigerian editor Ekong Udousoro is in New York City to learn at the center of the publishing industry. He finds ruthlessness, racism, and a shared hostility toward the “other.” And yet, there is hope in sharing our stories – even as tribalism defines our lives, no matter the size of our village. Moderated by author Lauren Groff. …
In Conversation: On O Beautiful: A Novel
In O Beautiful: A Novel, Jung Yun tells the story of Elinor Hanson, a fortysomething former model struggling to reinvent herself as a freelance writer, returns on assignment to the town in North Dakota where she spent her unhappy childhood. It’s decades later, yet Elinor finds her past intertwining with the story she’s trying to tell – and the revelations will forever change her and the way she looks at the world. Moderated by Kendra Winchester,…
In Conversation: On Perestroika in Paris: A Novel
Paras, short for “Perestroika,” is a racehorse at a track west of Paris. When she finds the door of her stall open, she wanders off all the way to the great city, finding adventure and an unlikely cast of characters with which to share it. From Jane Smiley, Perestroika in Paris: A Novel celebrates curiosity, ingenuity, and the desire of all creatures for true love and freedom. Moderated by authors Julie Sternberg and Eve Yohalem.…
In Conversation: On Talk to Me: A Novel
In Talk to Me: A Novel by T.C. Boyle, an animal behaviorist teaches Sam, his young chimp, to speak in sign language. But in time, this raises more questions: What if it were possible to talk to members of another species and exchange ideas, and have a meeting of minds? Moderated by author Brad Thor.…
In Conversation: On The Book of Form and Emptiness
Ruth Ozeki’s The Book of Form and Emptiness: A Novel follows 13-year-old Benny Oh, who, a year after his father’s death, begins to hear voices. They belong to random objects scattered within his home – a sneaker, a broken Christmas ornament, a piece of wilted lettuce – but in time, also a book, one that narrates his life and teaches him to listen to the things that truly matter. Moderated by Neda Ulaby, NPR arts desk reporter.…
In Conversation: On The Butterfly Lampshade: A Novel
The Butterfly Lampshade: A Novel is Aimee Bender’s poignant tale of a mother, a daughter, mental illness, and the continuously shifting barrier between the mind and the world. Moderated by Mitzi Rapkin, host of the podcast First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing.…
In Conversation: On The Island of Missing Trees: A Novel
The Island of Missing Trees: A Novel by Elif Shafak tells a story of young love, war, and the trees of a place, rooted on the ground beneath and inextricably entwined within our histories. Moderated by Ellen Book, Miami-Dade Public Library System.…
In Conversation: On The Mad Women’s Ball: A Novel & Mrs. March: A Novel
In Victoria Mas’ The Mad Women’s Ball: A Novel, the dazzling displays of hypnotism on women who have been deemed mad and cast from society in 1885 Paris’ Salpêtrière Asylum hide a wicked truth – these women are not sick, just inconvenient. Among them is 19-year-old protagonist Eugenie, who is determined to escape from the asylum and the bonds of her gender. In Virginia Feito’s Mrs. March: A Novel – part Hitchcockian psychological thriller, part social satire – the title character is the proper,…
In Conversation: On The Removed: A Novel
In telling the story of the Echota family, Brandon Hobson‘s The Removed: A Novel also offers a meditation on family, grief, home, and the power of stories on both a personal and ancestral level. Moderated by author Kelli Jo Ford.…
In Conversation: On The Sweetness of Water: A Novel
In The Sweetness of Water: A Novel, Nathan Harris shares the story of brothers Prentiss and Landry, freed by the Emancipation Proclamation in the waning days of the Civil War and seeking refuge – and the means to make their way north to reunite with the mother who was sold away when they were boys. Moderated by author Luis Alberto Urrea.…
In Conversation: On We Run the Tides: A Novel
The changing lives of the teenage girls at the center of We Run the Tides: A Novel are a mirror to the story of pre-tech boom San Francisco. Vendela Vida’s book is a portrait of a place on the brink of radical transformation. Moderated by essayist and critic Maris Kreizman, host of The Maris Review podcast on LitHub Radio.…
In Conversation: On What’s Mine and Yours: A Novel
Naima Coster’s What’s Mine and Yours: A Novel tells the story of two families, one Black, the other white Latino, unexpectedly coming together. Her tale moves between the years and from North Carolina to Paris, exploring the unique organism that is each family, what breaks them apart, and how they come back together. Moderated by author and Today co-host Jenna Bush Hager.…
An Evening With Sandra Cisneros & Jan Beatty: On Martita, I Remember You/Martita, te recuerdo
In Martita, I Remember You/Martita, te recuerdo by Sandra Cisneros, Corina finds a letter written by a friend from her days in Paris, where she once escaped to be a writer. They have lost touch since, but Corina’s intense friendships with Martita and Paola is what gives that time a certain glow. Now the letter has brought those days back with breathtaking immediacy. Moderated by Cisneros’ friend and fellow author Jan Beatty. La reconocida autora Sandra Cisneros presenta Martita,…
72nd Annual National Book Awards
Miami Book Fair joins the National Book Foundation to livestream the National Book Awards from New York City! Tune in to be among the first to learn who the winners are across its five categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Young People’s Literature, and Translation. Sponsored by In partnership with…
In Conversation: On Late City: A Novel
Robert Olen Butler‘s Late City: A Novel centers around former newspaperman Sam Cunningham as he prepares to die. The conversation between the dying man and a surprising God covers much of the early 20th century. And as it unfolds, Sam is amazed at what he still has left to learn about himself. Moderated by Marrie Stone, co-host of the weekly KUCI radio show Writers on Writing.…