This year’s nominees of the prestigious National Book Foundation’s National Book Awards in Poetry present selected readings Rita Dove, Collected Poems 1974 – 2004 (W.W. Norton & Company) Peter Gizzi, Archeophonics (Wesleyan University Press) Solmaz Sharif, Look  (Graywolf Press) Jane Mead, The World of Made and Unmade (Alice James Books) Donika Kelly, Bestiary (Graywolf Press) Monica Youn, Blackacre (Graywolf Press) Kevin Young, Blue Laws (Alfred A.…

This year’s nominees of the prestigious National Book Foundation’s National Book Awards in Young People’s Literature present selected readings Caren Stelson, Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor’s Story Caren (Carolrhoda Books) Anna-Marie McLemore, When the Moon was Ours (Thomas Dunne Books) Nate Powell March: Book Three (Top Shelf Productions) Andrew Aydin, March: Book Three (Top Shelf Productions) Nicola Yoon, The Sun is Also a Star (Delacorte Press) Moderated by co-editor of PW Comics World and Senior News editor of Publishers Weekly,…

This year’s nominees of the prestigious National Book Foundation’s National Book Awards in Nonfiction present selected readings. Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Nation Books) Andrés Reséndez, The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) Heather Ann Thompson, Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy (Pantheon Books) Cathy O’Neil, Weapons of Math Destruction (Crown Publishing Group) Adam Cohen,…

This year’s nominees of the prestigious National Book Foundation’s National Book Awards in Fiction present selected readings. Karan Mahajan, The Association of Small Bombs (Viking Books) Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad (Doubleday) Jacqueline Woodson, Another Brooklyn (Amistad) Chris Bachelder, The Throwback Special (W.W. Norton & Co.) Elizabeth McKenzie, The Portable Veblen (Penguin Press) Adam Haslett, Imagine Me Gone (Little Brown & Co.)…

Anne Korkeakivi‘s The Shining Sea, is a decades-spanning story about the ripple effects of war, the passing down of memory, the making of myth, and the power of the ideal of heroism to lead us astray but also to keep us afloat.  Sabina Murray’s Valiant Gentlemen: A Novel reimagines the lives and intimate friendships of humanitarian and Irish patriot Roger Casement; his closest friend, Herbert Ward; and Ward’s extraordinary wife, the Argentinian-American heiress Sarita Sanford.…

The intricate, interlocking stories of Jensen Beach’s story collection, Swallowed by the Cold, are set in a Swedish village on the Baltic Sea as well as in Stockholm over the course of two eventful years. Jill Bialosky’s The Prize follows the fortunes of a partner in a prestigious New York gallery who struggles with the memory of his brilliant but volatile father, the tempers of a high-maintenance artist and her competitive husband, the distress of a rocky marriage,…

In her latest collection of innovative, shape-shifting essays, An Earlier Life, Brenda Miller evolves through childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood to enter the wry maturity of middle age. Julie Marie Wade’s Catechism: A Love Story is a collection of poetic essays on reading, loving, and, most delightfully, reading love between the lines. In his memoir, The Narrow Door, Paul Lisicky creates a compelling collage of scenes and images drawn from two long-term relationships,…

In Real Food/Fake Food, award-winning food journalist and travel writer Larry Olmsted exposes the pervasive and dangerous fraud perpetrated on unsuspecting Americans.…

Philippe Sands’s East West Street: On the Origins of “Genocide” and “Crimes Against Humanity,”  is a memoir about his family history, the battle between three men at the Nuremberg Trial, and the crimes of Hitler’s Third Reich.…

Join Carol Fitzgerald of Bookreporter.com as she takes the audience on a tour of great book club reads for fall and winter and interviews author Ann Hood about her newest books The Book that Matters Most: A Novel and Morningstar: Growing Up with Books. In Hood’s novel The Book That Matters Most, a lonely woman who joins a book club is surprised to find that a mysterious book from her childhood will propel her on a quest to unravel the secrets of her past.…

Drawing on recommendations from book editors, critics, translators, and authors from across the globe, Freeman’s: The Future of New Writing includes pieces from a select list of poets, fiction writers, and essayists whose work boldly breaks new ground against a climate of nationalism and siloed thinking, influenced by work from outside their region and genre. Aged twenty-five to seventy, the writers in the issue hail from almost twenty countries and writing in almost as many languages. They are shaping the literary conversation right now and will continue to have an impact for years to come.…

Elliot Ackerman’s Dark at the Crossing is a contemporary love story set on the Turkish border with Syria. In Daniel Alarcón’s story collection, The King Is Always Above the People, migration, betrayal, family secrets, doomed love, and uncertain futures are transformed into deeply human stories with high stakes. Lisa Ko‘s powerful debut, The Leavers, winner of the 2016 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Fiction, follows one young man’s search for his mother, an undocumented Chinese immigrant who disappears when he’s 11 years old.…

Erica Armstrong Dunbar‘s Never Caught: The Washington’s Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge is the powerful and surprising narrative of George and Martha Washington’s runaway slave. In Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America, James Forman, Jr. explains why the war on crime that began in the 1970s was supported by many African American leaders in the nation’s urban centers. David Grann’s Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI is a twisting,…

In Robin Benway’s Far From the Tree, being the middle child has its ups and downs, but for Grace, an only child who was adopted at birth, discovering that she is a middle child is a different ride altogether. In Samantha Mabry’s All the Wind in the World, a couple on the run may have to pay a frighteningly high price for their love. Charmaine Craig’s Miss Burma, based on the lives of the author’s mother and grandparents, …

In Running with Raven, Laura Lee Huttenbach tells the incredible story of Robert “Raven” Kraft, a lonely outcast, who, in 1975, made a New Years’ resolution to run eight miles on South Beach every day. Over forty years, 125,000 miles, seven hurricanes, chronic back pain and several hospitalizations later, he hasn’t missed a single day. Huttenbach also tells the stories of the people whose lives Raven has touched – as well as a story of Miami, an urban history in which ordinary people are rescued from the margins.…

What does it take to write an honest memoir? Melanie Brooks’ Writing Hard Stories: Celebrated Memoirists Who Shaped Art from Trauma (Beacon Press) describes more than a dozen celebrated authors’ treks through dark memories and breakthrough moments. Join Brooks and two of the writers profiled in Writing Hard Stories—Edwidge Danticat and Richard Blanco—for an honest discussion of what it takes to transform personal pain into prose. Sponsored by:…

Janet Capron‘s memoir, Blue Money, is an intimate, no-holds-barred portrait of her experiences as a prostitute in early-70s New York City. My Fair Junkie: A Memoir of Getting Dirty and Staying Clean is Amy Dresner‘s darkly funny and revealing debut memoir of her twenty-year battle with sex, drugs, and alcohol addiction, and what happens when she finally emerges on the other side.…

Storyteller and playwright James Judd‘s collection, Now I Know: Essays and Monologues, gathers together eleven of his Snap Judgment stories featuring “spectacular public embarrassments and utter failures.”…

Award-winning cookbook author, Cree LeFavour‘s debut memoir is Lights On, Rats Out, an exploration of her early twenties when she, as a graduate student in psychology, habitually burned herself with cigarettes, then developed an intimate relationship with her psychiatrist. In The Mighty Franks, former Los Angeles Times book critic Michael Frank presents the story of his eccentric Hollywood family, especially his glamorous but dangerously possessive Aunt Hank. Ben Blum’s Ranger Games: A Story of Soldiers,…

The funny poignant essays in Ada Calhoun’s Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give explore the bedrooms of modern coupledom for a nuanced discussion of infidelity, existential anxiety, and the many other obstacles to staying together. Dani Shapiro’s memoir, Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage, opens the door to her house, her marriage, and her heart, and invites us to witness her own marital reckoning.…

Elizabeth Silver’s memoir, The Tincture of Time: A Memoir of (Medical) Uncertainty, is set against the unexplained stroke of the author’s newborn daughter and recounts her daughter’s first year. Hospice consultant and expert in quality of life at the end of life, Melanie P. Merriman, presents her poignant and timely memoir, Holding the Net: Caring for My Mother on the Tightrope of Aging, which shares her struggle to care for her fiercely independent aging mother. Neurologist Joel Salinas chronicles his experiences as a doctor living with synesthesia in his new book,…

Celebrate the 2018 National Book Award Nominees and Finalists in Fiction, in recognition of some of the most outstanding works of fiction published in the U.S. this year. Moderated by Ellen Book. Sponsored by…

In If You See Me, Don’t Say Hi: Stories Neel Patel gives voice to our most deeply held stereotypes about first generation Indian Americans and then slowly undermines them. In the nine expansive, searching stories of Jamel Brinkley’s A Lucky Man, fathers and sons attempt to salvage relationships with friends and family members and confront mistakes made in the past. Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s Friday Black is a piercingly raw debut story collection; a treacherously surreal,…

Celebrate the 2018 National Book Award Nominees and Finalists in Nonfiction, in recognition of some of the most outstanding works of nonfiction published in the U.S. this year. Moderated by Fernand Amandi. Sponsored by…

What is the role of the writer under the present conditions, both nationally and globally? These three writers discuss how they grapple with America in the world, and their commitment to exploring literature from a social justice viewpoint. A conversation with Tom Sleigh, John Freeman,Edwidge Danticat and Ru Freeman. Moderated by Tom Sleigh.…

Ron Stallworth’s Black Klansman is an amazing true story that reads like a crime thriller, and a searing portrait of a divided America. R.J. Young‘s Let It Bang: A Young Black Man’s Reluctant Odyssey Into Guns explores the quest, funny and searing, of a young black man learning to shoot—a fascinating odyssey into race, guns, and self-protection in America.…

Beneath a Ruthless Sun: A True Story of Violence, Race, and Justice Lost and Found is the gripping true story of a small town with a big secret by Gilbert King. The Corporation: An Epic Story of the Cuban American Underworld by T.J. English is an epic story of gangsters, drugs, violence, sex, and murder rooted in the streets. When a stolen car is recovered on the Gulf Coast of Florida, it sets off a search for a missing woman in Cutter Wood’s Love and Death in the Sunshine State: The Story of a Crime.…

A Chicago reporter with a second job as undercover agent for the U.S. government, is officially in Paris doing a story on American ambulance drivers in the early days of WWI, but his intelligence handler, James Polk Trask, soon broadens his mission in Robert Olen Butler’s Paris in the Dark. B.A. Shapiro’s new novel The Collector’s Apprentice is an unforgettable tale about the lengths to which people will go for their obsession, whether it be art,…

An epidemic of violence is sweeping the country: musicians are being murdered onstage in the middle of their sets by members of their audience in Destroy All Monsters: The Last Rock Novel by Jeff Jackson. From Martin Solares, a writer whose work has been praised as “Latin American fiction at its pulpy phantasmagorical finest,” Don’t Send Flowers is a novel centered on a retired police detective in northern Mexico who has to go up against corruption and widespread violence.…

Michael Zadoorian’s Beautiful Music is a novel about one young man’s transformation through music. The Sopranos actor, Michael Imperioli’s debut novel, The Perfume Burned His Eyes, tells the story of a teenage boy who becomes a quasi-assistant to Lou Reed in 1970s Manhattan.…

Beth Macy’s Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America is the only book to fully chart the devastating opioid crisis in America. Maureen Cavanagh’s gripping memoir If You Love Me is the story of a mother who suddenly finds herself on the frontlines of the opioid epidemic as her daughter battles—and ultimately reckons with—substance use disorder.…

Set during the tumultuous George W. Bush years — amid the twin catastrophes of the Iraq insurgency and Hurricane Katrina — Landfall brings Thomas Mallon’s cavalcade of contemporary American politics to a vivid and emotional climax. In her historical novel The Flight Portfolio, Julie Orringer weaves invention and facts as she follows the efforts of one man to save artists and writers from the carnage of WWII. John Burnham Schwartz’s The Red Daughter is a sweeping historical novel and unexpected love story inspired by the remarkable life of Svetlana Alliluyeva,…

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

Philip Caputo’s Hunter’s Moon: A Novel in Stories offers a mosaic of stories set in a small town where no act is private. Caputo will be in conversation with his son, journalist Marc Caputo. …

Jennifer Cody Epstein’s novel, Wunderland, is an intimate portrait of a friendship severed by history, and a sweeping saga of wartime, motherhood and just how far we might go in order to belong.  In Mamta Chaudhry’s Haunting Paris a bereaved pianist discovers a letter among her late lover’s possessions, launching her into a search for a child who vanished in the turbulence of wartime Paris. In conversation with author Debra Dean. Sponsored by        …

The Big Book of Classic Fantasy, edited by Ann and Jeff Vandermeer, is an anthology of fantastic tales that offers both careful scholarship and fun. Jeff VanderMeer—whom The New Yorker has anointed “the weird Thoreau”—will also discuss his brand new novel, Dead Astronauts, which makes a mind-bending, form-stretching, and altogether dazzling return to the universe of his previous novel, Borne, to address one of its central mysteries: the three dead astronauts at the crossroads of the City. …

X Seminario de Literatura Infantil y Lectura: Libros para un mundo plural, “Botánica del espíritu” conferencia de VERÓNICA MURGUÍA; presenta ANA SCHEIN. Compra #NiLocasNiSolas: Narrativa escrita por mujeres en Estados Unidos. – Schein En colaboración con …

X Seminario de Literatura Infantil y Lectura: Libros para un mundo plural, “Cuando hay algo que contar”, charla de ELENA ODRIOZOLA. Con el apoyo de En colaboración con …