Each fall, Miami Book Fair invites the authors and translators of 50 National Book Award longlisted titles to gather in Miami following the National Book Awards Ceremony in New York. Join the honorees in translated literature – including Jazmina Barrera, The Queen of Swords, Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, We Are Green and Trembling, and Hamid Ismailov, We Computers: A Ghazal Novel – as they read from and discuss their books and answer your questions about writing,…

Each fall, Miami Book Fair invites the authors and translators of 50 National Book Award longlisted titles to gather in Miami following the National Book Awards Ceremony in New York. Join the honorees in nonfiction – Caleb Gayle, Julia Ioffe, Lana Lin, Ben Ratliff, Claudia Rowe, Nilo Tabrizy, Jordan Thomas, and Helen Whybrow – as they read from and discuss their books and answer your questions about writing,…

In Joan Crawford: A Woman’s Face, Scott Eyman delivers a definitive portrait of the Hollywood icon, drawing on interviews and never-before-seen documents and photos from her estate. From her rise out of poverty to stardom in musicals and films like Mildred Pierce and Johnny Guitar to four marriages and an Academy Award, Eyman reveals the story behind Crawford’s turbulent, dazzling life. Marisa Meltzer’s It Girl: The Life and Legacy of Jane Birkin is the first comprehensive biography of the actress,…

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.…

Karmela Waldman is an octogenarian psychotherapist and Holocaust survivor. Her son, Joel Z. Waldman, is a successful broadcast journalist. Mastering podcasting is one thing; figuring out the meaning of life is a challenge of an entirely different order. Surviving the Survivor: A Brutally Honest Conversation about Life (& Death) with My Mom: A Holocaust Survivor, Therapist & My Podcast Co-Host offers insights into their frank, real-time, and on-air discussions ranging from child-rearing, aging, illness, and death to the secrets of enjoying life no matter how complicated it gets.…

In Dividing Lines: How Transportation Infrastructure Reinforces Racial Inequality, Deborah N. Archer reveals how America’s transportation infrastructure – highways, roads, bus routes, even sidewalks – became tools to sustain segregation after Jim Crow. From multilane roads blocking access to white neighborhoods to suburbs designed to exclude, Archer traces a hidden architecture of inequality while offering a vision for a just system. Joining Archer in conversation is Oscar Corral, documentary filmmaker and co-director and co-producer of INTERSTATE.…

In The River’s Daughter: A Memoir, leading whitewater guide Bridget Crocker traces her journey from a turbulent childhood in Wyoming after her parents’ divorce to rafting some of the world’s fiercest rivers. Amid danger, loss, and betrayal, the river becomes her teacher, showing her the possibilities of transformation through nature. In Trauma Plot: A Life, Jamie Hood tells the story of three decades marred by sexual violence and the wreckage it leaves behind. Hood invokes infamous figures,…