Justin Taylor‘s Flings: Stories is a piercing collection of short fiction that illuminates our struggle to find love, comfort, and identity. New Yorker cartoonist Marisa Acocella Marchetto’s graphic novel, Ann Tenna, is a wildly imaginative story of an influential gossip columnist brought face-to-face with her higher self. …

The Tropes of War: Visual Hyperbole and Spectacular Culture by Andrea Greenbaum examines the remnants of war that construct the narratives of returning soldiers, and documents how those who record their memories endeavour to excavate these broken pieces.…

A man decides he’ll save his failing New York restaurant by traveling to Cuba to reclaim a legendary chicken recipe stolen from his family by Fidel Castro in Phillippe Diederich’s debut novel Sofrito. Fatima Shaik has written a love letter to the entertaining, unpredictable, and flawed characters who populated New Orleans before Hurricane Katrina in What Went Missing and What Got Found, a lyrical short story collection with undertones of the blues. In her novel, Almost Crimson,…

Jacinda Townsend’s debut novel, Saint Monkey, portrays a young pianist from Kentucky, who joins the blooming jazz scene in Harlem in an era where segregation is a stark reality. Peter Golden’s Wherever There Is Light: A Novel is a panoramic tale of twentieth-century America, chronicling the decades-long love affair between a Jewish immigrant and the granddaughter of a slave. The daughter of abolitionist John Brown’s past is woven into the present by secrets, dangers and deliverance in Sarah McCoy’s The Mapmaker’s Children: A Novel.…

From Nathan Ward, The Lost Detective: Becoming Dashiell Hammett, is the first book to illuminate Hammett’s transformation from real detective to great American detective writer. In the biography, Empire of Imagination: Gary Gygax and the Birth of Dungeons and Dragons, Michael Witwer has written an engaging chronicle of the life and legacy of this emperor of the imagination.…

Roberto Vivo’s War: A Crime Against Humanity is a condensation of the history of war and the evolution of humanity in its search for enduring and active world peace.…

In James Grippando‘s Gone Again: A Jack Swyteck Novel, Miami criminal defense lawyer Jack Swyteck takes on his first death-row client since The Pardon, in a case as twisty as it is shocking. In Lucie Whitehouse’s Keep You Close, the suspicious death of a friend leads a woman to discover sinister secrets that threaten her future.…

In Tim Dorsey‘s Coconut Cowboy, Serge Storms, obsessed with the iconic Sixties classic Easy Rider, devises his wildest plan yet: finish the journey begun by his freewheeling heroes, Captain America and Billy. Craig Pittman‘s Oh, Florida! How America’s Weirdest State Influences the Rest of the Country explores the states many contradictions, and shows how they fit together to make this the most interesting—and a highly influential— state.…

In Ridley Pearson’s fourth installment of the Risk Agent series, White Bone (G.P. Putnam’s Sons), when Grace Chu vanishes in her attempt to investigate a switched vaccine in Kenya, John Knox encounters savage elephant poachers and their terrorist sponsors in his efforts to follow her trail. Among the Living by Jonathan Rabb is a moving novel about a Holocaust survivor’s unconventional journey back to a new normal in 1940s Savannah, Georgia.…

In Joe Clifford’s second Jay Porter novel, the psychological thriller, December Boys, Porter finds himself thrust back into a past he had hoped to leave behind, putting everything — and everyone he loves — at risk, in pursuit of the truth. A failed rocker in L.A. gets involved in a murder investigation and quickly learns nothing is what it seems, in Mike Creeden‘s debut mystery/thriller, All Your Lies Came True. In Alex Segura’s Down the Darkest Street,…

Blood, Bone, and Marrow, by Ted Geltner, is the first full-length biography of one of the most unlikely figures in twentieth-century American literature, Harry Crews, a writer who emerged from a dirt-poor South Georgia tenant farm and went on to create a singularly unique voice of fiction. Walter Shapiro’s Hustling Hitler: The Jewish Vaudevillian Who Fooled the Fuhrer, tells the true story of how his great-uncle—a Jewish vaudeville impresario and exuberant con man—managed to cheat Hitler’s agents in the run-up to WWII.…

Journalist and author Amy Haimerl recounts the restoration of a down-on-its luck house in a down-on-its luck city in her memoir, Detroit Hustle: A Memoir of Life, Love, and Home. Winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize, Angela Palm’s Riverine: A Memoir from Anywhere but Here is a book of spellbinding linked essays on place, young love, and a life-altering crime. …

Robert Silk’s An Ecotourist’s Guide to the Everglades and the Florida Keys is essential reading for a fun-filled trip through the world’s most famous wetland, the Everglades, and the marine environment of the 130-mile island chain formed by the Florida Keys. Cathy Salustri’s travel guide Backroads of Paradise: A Journey to Rediscover Old Florida reveals a patchwork quilt of Florida cultures: startling pockets of history and environmental bliss stitched against the blight of strip malls and franchise restaurants. …

Gary Monroe’s biography, E.G. Barnhill: Florida Photographer, Adventurer, Entrepreneur, showcases a little-known artist whose inventive techniques—particularly his uranium-dye coloring—merit a place in the story of American photography. In George Merrick, Son of the South Wind: Visionary Creator of Coral Gables, Arva Parks presents the remarkable true story of George Merrick and of one of the nation’s most iconic planned cities. In Miami: Real and Imagined, long-time Miamian Hank Klein brings his vision and imagination to more than 200 colorful Miami scenes,…

David Callahan’s The Givers: Wealth, Power, and Philanthropy in a New Gilded Age provides a fascinating investigation of a power shift in American society that has implications for us all. Sponsored by…

Danny Goldberg lived through the 60s and remembers it well. The former chairman of Warner Bros. and Atlantic Records has written In Search of the Lost Chord: My Life Inside the Rock and Roll Business (Akashic), a mosaic of seminal moments in the psychedelic, spiritual, rock-and-roll, and political protest cultures of 1967. Goldberg is joined in conversation with renowned journalist and media analyst Eric Alterman in a discussion of how and why the legacy of 1967 lives on today.…

Larry Pressler’s memoir, Neighbours in Arms: An American Senator’s Quest for Disarmament in a Nuclear Subcontinent, exposes the enormous power wielded by the military-industrial complex, and how it controls significant aspects of the American presence in the Indian subcontinent.…

Melvin A. Goodman‘s Whistleblower at the CIA: An Insider’s Account of the Politics of Intelligence is a rare insider’s account of the inner workings of America’s intelligence community. Pulitzer Prize-winning Daniel Golden‘s Spy Schools: How the CIA, FBI, and Foreign Intelligence Secretly Exploit America’s Universities exposes how academia has become a major target of foreign and domestic espionage―and why that is troubling news for our nation’s security and democratic values.…

In A Man and His Presidents: The Political Odyssey of William F. Buckley Jr., Alvin S. Felzenberg sheds light on little-known aspects of the most influential American conservative writer, activist, and organizer in the postwar era. In The Gifted Generation: When Government Was Good, a sweeping history of the post-World War II decades, David Goldfield examines the generation immediately after WWII and argues that the federal government was instrumental in the great economic, social, and environmental progress of the era.…

Kathleen McAuliffe’s This Is Your Brain on Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society is both a journey into cutting-edge science and a revelatory examination of what it means to be human.…

Former Navy SEAL Leif Babin offers a compelling narrative with powerful instruction and direct application of the SEAL’s principles to business management, in Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win.…

Veteran publicist Justin Loeber presents a scrappy, humorous, real-life, kick-in-the-pants wake-up call with his new book, Get Out of Your Own Way Guide to Life: 10 Steps to Shift Gears, Dream Big, Do it Now!…

Angela Saini’s Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That’s Rewriting the Story, investigates the gender wars in biology, psychology, and anthropology, and delves into cutting-edge scientific studies to uncover a fascinating new portrait of women’s brains, bodies, and role in human evolution. Kate Harding presents 23 Leading Feminist Writers on Protest and Solidarity, in Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump’s America.…

Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich’s memoir, The Fact of a Body, is the story of how a crime was constructed—and how we grapple with our own personal histories.…

Woman Walk the Line: How the Women in Country Music Changed Our Lives, edited by Nashville-based writer and artist development consultant Holly Gleason, presents deeply personal essays from award-winning writers on femme fatales, feminists, groundbreakers, and truth tellers. Gleason is joined by Atlantic recording artist, Aubrie Sellers, and Wendy Pearl, former Director of Communications at the Country Music Association.…

M. Evelina Galang’s Lolas’ House tells the stories, in unprecedented detail, of sixteen surviving Filipino “comfort women,” kidnapped by the Imperil Japanese Army during World War II and forced into sexual slavery. In Survivor Café: The Legacy of Trauma and the Labyrinth of Memory, Elizabeth Rosner depicts the efforts to understand the intergenerational inheritance of trauma, as well as the intricacies of remembrance in the aftermath of atrocity. In A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa,…

In Jessica Shattuck’s novel, The Women in the Castle, the widow of a resister murdered in a failed assassination attempt on Adolph Hitler plans to uphold the promise she made to her husband’s brave conspirators: to find and protect their wives. Rachel Kadish‘s The Weight of Ink is a sophisticated work of historical fiction about women separated by centuries, and the choices and sacrifices they must make in order to reconcile the life of the heart and mind.…

Beverly Daniel Tatum, a renowned authority on the psychology of racism, argues that straight talk about our racial identities is essential in Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race. In Kent Spriggs’s, Voices of Civil Rights Lawyers: Reflections from the Deep South, 1964-1980, twenty-six lawyers reveal the abuses they endured and the barriers they broke as they fought for civil rights.…

Marsha S. Bordner‘s presents the memoir of her husband, Harold H. Brown, in Keep Your Airspeed Up: The Story of a Tuskegee Airman, which recounts the journey of an African American man who, through dedication to his goals and vision, rose through the despair of racial segregation to great heights of accomplishment. Joe Starita‘s A Warrior of the People: How Susan La Flesche Overcame Racial and Gender Inequality to Become America’s First Indian Doctor is the story of a woman who crashed through thick walls of ethnic,…

Glory Edim’s Well-read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves is an inspiring collection of essays by black women writers, curated by the founder of the popular book club, Well-read Black Girl. Mahogany L. Browne, one of the editors behind The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 2: Black Girl Magic, presents some of the most exciting Black women writing today. …

Deborah Baker’s The Last Englishmen: Love, War, and the End of Empire is a sumptuous biographical saga, both intimate and epic, about the waning of the British Empire in India.…

A young Swedish immigrant finds himself penniless and alone in California in Hernan Diaz’s historical novel, In the Distance.  A finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in fiction, Diaz will be in conversation with novel and short story master, Jim Shepherd.…

In her most recent book, Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War, Karen Abbott, tells the spellbinding true story of four women — a socialite, a farm girl, an abolitionist, and a widow — who risked everything to become spies during the Civil War.  Gregory J. Wallance’s The Woman Who Fought an Empire tells the improbable but true odyssey of a bold young woman—the daughter of Romanian-born Jewish settlers in Palestine—who became the daring leader of a Middle East spy ring.…

Ada Calhoun’s Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give is a collection of seven essays celebrating the beauty of the imperfect marriage. Fueled by urgency and the emotional intensity of Kim Brooks’s own story, Small Animals: Parenthood in the Age of Fear, is a riveting examination of the ways our culture of competitive, anxious, and judgmental parenting has profoundly altered the experiences of parents and children. In true stories that cut to the quick. Dawn Davies explores passion,…

Celebrate the 2018 National Book Award Nominees and Finalists in Translated Literature, in recognition of some of the most outstanding works of translated literature published in the U.S. this year. Moderated by Marci Vogel. Sponsored by…

Les Standiford and his book Center of Dreams to the following pairing: Jim Ross, In Season: Stories of Discovery, Loss, Home, and Places in Between; Julie Hauserman, Drawn to the Deep: The Remarkable Underwater Explorations of Wes Skiles; and Jose Manuel Garcia, Voices from Mariel: Oral Histories of the 1980 Cuban Boatlift. Sponsored by…

Tristram Korten’s Into the Storm: Two Ships, a Deadly Hurricane, and an Epic Battle for Survival tells the true story of two doomed ships and a daring search-and- rescue operation that shines a light on the elite Coast Guard swimmers trained for the most dangerous ocean missions. Eric Jay Dolin, Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America’s Most Notorious Pirates reveals the dramatic and surprising history of American piracy’s “Golden Age”—spanning the late 1600s through the early 1700s—when lawless pirates plied the coastal waters of North America and beyond.…

Daniela Lamas’ You Can Stop Humming Now: A Doctor’s Stories of Life, Death, and in Between contains beautifully crafted stories about what life is like for patients kept alive by modern medical technology. Dr. Sandeep Jauhar’s Heart: A History tells the colorful and little-known story of the doctors who risked their careers and the patients who risked their lives to know and heal our most vital organ. Johann Hari went on a forty-thousand-mile journey across the world to interview the leading experts about what causes depression and anxiety,…

JOE HAGAN’s Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner & Rolling Stone Magazine is a delicious romp through the heyday of rock and roll and a revealing portrait of the man at the helm of the iconic magazine that made it all possible. ANDREW FRIEDMAN’s Chefs, Drugs and Rock & Roll transports readers back in time to witness the remarkable evolution of the American restaurant chef in the 1970s and ‘80s. In The Browns of California: The Family Dynasty that Transformed a State and Shaped a Nation,…

Raymond Arsenault’s Arthur Ashe: A Life is the first comprehensive, authoritative biography of American icon Arthur Ashe—the Jackie Robinson of men’s tennis. In chronicling the adventurous life of legendary CIA operative Edward Lansdale, Max Boot’s The Road Not Taken definitively reframes our understanding of the Vietnam War.The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created, from Jane Leavy, is the definitive biography of Babe Ruth—the man Roger Angell dubbed “the model for modern celebrity.”…

In Seven Sisters and a Brother: Friendship, Resistance, and the Untold Truth Behind Black Activism at Swarthmore College, the eight students at the heart of the historical eight-day sit-in in 1969 at Swarthmore College — Marilyn Allman Maye, Jannette O. Domingo, Marilyn J. Holifield, Aundrea White Kelley, Myra E. Rose, Harold S. Buchanan and Erica James — recall a protest that led to change.…

In The Master Plan: My Journey from Life in Prison to a Life of Purpose, Chris Wilson tells his story of second chances: from being sentenced to life in prison with no hope of parole at 18, to successful social entrepreneur, mentor, and public speaker.…

In What It Is: Race, Family, and One Thinking Black Man’s Blues, Clifford Thompson explores the war between the values he has held, and the reality in twenty-first-century America. In his collection of essays We Speak for Ourselves: A Word from Forgotten Black America, D. Watkins gives a voice to people who live in economically disadvantaged black communities and whose experiences he feels are largely absent from the commentary of many top intellectuals who speak and write about race.…

Kerri Greenidge’s Black Radical: The Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter, reestablishes Trotter’s essential place in the pantheon of American civil rights heroes. Dr. Greenidge will be in conversation with Channing Joseph, Fellow, The Leon Levy Center for Biography. Sponsored by Biography    …

Steve Luxenberg’s Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America’s Journey from Slavery to Segregation is a myth-shattering narrative of the pernicious consequences of racial segregation in the United States. Daniel Brooks’ The Accident of Color: A Story of Race in Reconstruction is a technicolor history of the first civil rights movement and its collapse into black and white.…

Josh Levin’s The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth is a fascinating account of American racism, and an exposé of the “welfare queen” myth. Levin will be joined by Elizabeth Flock, reporter and producer for PBS NewsHour.…

James Fallows and Deborah Fallows are co-authors of Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America which chronicles five years of travels across America in a single-engine prop airplane.…

Michael Frank’s What is Missing is a psychological family drama about a father, a son, and the woman they both love. In her novel, On Division, Goldie Goldbloom tells a deeply affecting, morally insightful story, and offers a rare look inside Brooklyn’s Chasidic community. From neuroscientist Lisa Genova, the novel, Every Note Played, is a powerful exploration of regret, forgiveness, freedom, and what it means to be alive. Sponsored by        …

In Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century, historian Sarah Abrevaya Stein shares the true story of a frayed and diasporic family preserved in thousands of letters. Sponsored by       …

Eric Lichtblau’s Return to the Reich: A Holocaust Refugee’s Secret Mission to Defeat the Nazis, is an eye-opening, unforgettable narrative of World War II heroism. Debbie Cenziper’s Citizen 865: The Hunt for Hitler’s Hidden Soldiers in America tells the gripping story of a team of Nazi hunters at the U.S. Department of Justice. Sponsored by          …

Leah Sottile‘s When the Moon Turns to Blood: Lori Vallow, Chad Daybell, and a Story of Murder, Wild Faith, and End Times examines the culture of end times paranoia and the trail of mysterious deaths surrounding former beauty queen Lori Vallow and her husband, gravedigger-turned-doomsday novelist Chad Daybell. In The True Crime File: Serial Killers, Famous Kidnappings, Great Cons, Survivors & Their Stories, Forensics, Oddities & Absurdities, Quotes & Quizzes, Kim Daly presents a mini encyclopedia of true crime,…

Beginning with the tragic story of Sumner Welles, FDR’s brilliant diplomatic advisor, James Kirchick‘s Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington is a chronicle of American politics like no other. Cultural and political anxiety over gay people impacted everything from the ascent of Joseph McCarthy and the struggle for civil rights to the rise of the conservative movement. In First Friends: The Powerful, Unsung (and Unelected) People Who Shaped Our Presidents, Gary Ginsberg explores presidential friendships and their profound impact.…

In The Desperate Hours: One Hospital’s Fight to Save a City on the Pandemic’s Front Lines, Marie Brenner takes readers inside secure ICU units, sealed operating rooms, locked executive suites, unknown basement workshops, and the makeshift clinics of the New York-Presbyterian hospital system, providing extraordinary witness to the front line of the war against COVID-19 in America’s largest metropolis. Moderating is Daniela Lamas, M.D., a pulmonary and critical care doctor at the Brigham & Women’s Hospital and faculty at Harvard Medical School,…

In The Loop: How Technology is Creating a World Without Choices and How to Fight Back, Jacob Ward argues that the real danger isn’t some robot enslaving us: It’s our own brain. We are using our brains’ shortcuts, biases, and hidden processes, and building our worst instincts into our Artificial Intelligence platforms. He posits it will lead to fewer, predetermined, and even dangerous choices. In The Metaverse: And How It Will Revolutionize Everything, Matthew Ball offers a definitive account of the next internet: what the metaverse is,…

Samantha Cole‘s How Sex Changed the Internet and the Internet Changed Sex: A History is a serious yet entertaining look at the convergence of sex and the internet. Cole has been on this beat for years as a senior writer for Vice, and here she offers up a highly visual history filled with broad themes and backstories, pioneering personalities, and eureka moments. Moderating is journalist and author Ada Calhoun.   In partnership with…

Diana Goetsch‘s This Body I Wore: A Memoir chronicles one woman’s long journey to coming out, a path that runs parallel to the emergence of the trans community over the past several decades. Offered here is not a transition memoir, but rather a full account of trans life, one at once unusually public and closeted. In Voice of the Fish: A Lyric Essay, Lars Horn explores the trans experience through themes of water, fish, and mythology,…

With Against the Wind: Edward Kennedy and the Rise of Conservatism, 1976 – 2009, Neal Gabler completes his magisterial biography of Ted Kennedy and also unfolds the epic, tragic story of the fall of liberalism and the destruction of political morality in America. Against the Wind sheds new light on a revered figure of American politics and on the country’s current existential crisis. David S. Brown‘s timely The First Populist: The Defiant Life of Andrew Jackson positions the seventh president of the United States firmly in the forefront of the country’s populist tradition.…

Robert K. Sutton‘s Nazis on the Potomac: The Top-Secret Intelligence Operation that Helped Win World War II chronicles the work executed during World War II at Fort Hunt, Virginia, in a secret facility about 15 miles south of Washington, D.C.  Known by its code name, P.O. Box 1142, the operation interrogated and eavesdropped on the highest-level Nazi prisoners and translated and analyzed captured German war documents. Smedley Butler went wherever the flag went. He helped annex the Philippines,…

In November 1970, a storm barreled up the Bay of Bengal in Pakistan, the most densely populated coastline on Earth. In The Vortex: A True Story of History’s Deadliest Storm, an Unspeakable War, and Liberation, Scott Carney and Jason Miklian tell the dramatic story of how the storm and its aftermath sparked a liberation war in what is now Bangladesh. It’s a tale of political intrigue, corruption, violence, idealism, and bravery. Moderating is author Jack E.…

In Bad Jews: A History of American Jewish Politics and Identities, Emily Tamkin examines the last 100 years of American Jewish politics, culture, and identities. As she tracks many of the evolving and conflicting Jewish positions on assimilation, Zionism and Israel, and philanthropy and social justice, what emerges is that American Jewish identity is always changing. Moderating is Brian Siegal, regional director of AJC Miami and Broward County.…

Isaac Fitzgerald has lived many lives: altar boy, bartender, fat kid, smuggler, biker, and prince of New England. In Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional, he recounts his ongoing search for forgiveness, a more far-reaching vision of masculinity, and a more expansive definition of family and self – while embracing the idea that one can be generous to oneself by being generous to others. In Nein, Nein, Nein!: One Man’s Tale of Depression, Psychic Torment, and a Bus Tour of the Holocaust,…

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,…

Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant: A Memoir is CURTIS S. CHIN’s love letter to Detroit’s Chung’s Cantonese Cuisine, where anyone – from local drag queens to elderly Jewish couples – could come in, sit down, and enjoy a home-cooked meal. In ANNE HULL’s Through the Groves: A Memoir, she writes about a vanishing place in Central Florida – where the orange groves her father’s family had worked for generations gave way to Disney World.…

CAT FITZPATRICK, co-publisher of the imprint, presents two authors. EMILY ZHOU’s Girlfriends is a collection of short stories that chronicle modern queer life with uncompromising and hilarious lucidity. Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn’t My Rapist, is CECILIA GENTILI’s memoir in letters about transgender childhood, sexual trauma, motherhood, and a young queer life in 1970s Argentina. Buy Girlfriends. – Zhou Buy Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn’t My Rapist.…

Freeman’s: Conclusions is the 10th and final installment of JOHN FREEMAN‘s boundary-pushing literary journal. Having spent a decade introducing the English-speaking world to writers from around the globe, as well as writers working in English, in this issue, fittingly, contributions explore ways of bringing a story to an end. Few writers in America know how to do that quite as well as ANDREW HOLLERAN, the beloved author of Dancer from the Dance, The Beauty of Men,…

In WILL SCHWALBE’s memoir We Should Not Be Friends: The Story of a Friendship, he recalls an extraordinary bond with a man he met in college, one that became a mainstay in their lives as they repeatedly lose and find each other and themselves. And in Falling into Place: A Story of Love, Poland, and the Making of a Travel Writer, THOMAS SWICK chronicles his love story with a visiting Polish student and how they overcome cultural differences,…

On Defiant Dreams: The Journey of an Afghan Girl Who Risked Everything for Education, Indian American human rights activist MALAINA KAPOOR and Afghani mathematician SOLA MAHFOUZ share the story of Mahfouz’s extraordinary escape from her Taliban-ordained future. In SAFIYA SINCLAIR’s How to Say Babylon: A Memoir, she shares her struggle to break free of her rigid Rastafarian upbringing and find her own voice as a woman and poet, which stemmed from an inevitable collision course between her and her strict patriarchal father.…

In DAVID AND RHONDA ROSENBERG‘s The Eden Revelation: An Evolutionary Novel, our original ecosystem – a buried Garden of Eden where humankind evolved – is discovered by an archaeologist’s Middle Eastern dig. And it is here that a reckoning with the psychic attachments underlying sexuality begins, and the voice breaking through one man’s mind has his colleagues fearing for his sanity. Moderating is prize-winning Miami Herald journalist LINDA ROBERTSON. Buy The Eden Revelation: An Evolutionary Novel.…

The World According to Joan Didion by EVELYN MCDONNELL is an illustrated journey through Didion’s life, tracing the path she carved from California to New York, Miami, and Hawaii. Maestros & Monsters: Days & Nights with Susan Sontag & George Steiner is ROBERT BOYERS‘ memoiristic take on his intense friendships with two public intellectuals who achieved celebrity status. Buy The World According to Joan Didion. – McDonnell Buy Maestros & Monsters: Days & Nights with Susan Sontag &…

Drag’s evolution as an art form, a community, and a mode of liberation is chronicled in ELYSSA MAXX GOODMAN’s Glitter and Concrete: A Cultural History of Drag in New York City, in all its dramatic, provocative, and sparkly glory. In Naked: On Sex, Work, and Other Burlesques, FANCY FEAST delivers an incisive, poignant, and wildly entertaining collection of personal essays that is part exclusive backstage pass and part long-form literary striptease. Buy Glitter and Concrete: A Cultural History of Drag in New York City.…

Labeled: Ward of the State: A Memoir is KENISHA E. ANTHONY’s powerful story of an abandoned child of drug-addicted parents and Florida’s broken child welfare system, who went on to earn graduate degrees and become an advocate for change. Moderating is LANITA PATTON, consumer business strategist. Buy Labeled: Ward of the State: A Memoir. – Anthony Sponsored by…

KELLE GROOM answers the question of How to Live: A Memoir-in-Essays by traveling from the East Coast to the West, to places she’s never been, then back to her childhood home in New England’s Cape Cod. In SOPHIE KLAHR’s There Is Only One Ghost in the World follows the fragmented meditations of a multilayered voice, an intimate witness to our times that delicately and bluntly reveals the best and the worst in all of us. And JULIE MARIE WADE’s Otherwise: Essays presents a series of intimate,…

In Sink: A Memoir, JOSEPH EARL THOMAS revisits his volatile coming-of-age, laying bare his loneliness and illuminating the reprieve he found in geek culture. In The Girl in the Yellow Poncho: A Memoir, KRISTAL BRENT ZOOK – abandoned by her white father and raised by her African American mother and grandmother – shares a story of strong Black women and the generational cycles of oppression and survival that seemingly defined their lives. Buy Sink: A Memoir. – Thomas Buy The Girl in the Yellow Poncho: A Memoir.…

Founded in 1971 by journalist and activist Gloria Steinem, Ms. was the first national American feminist magazine that subverted the male-dominated print industry. Join us in celebrating 50 years of this iconic publication with its executive director for partnerships and strategy, JENNIFER WEISS-WOLF, Ms. contributor JANE CAPUTI, and poet JULIE ENSZER, a member of the Ms. Committee of Scholars. 50 Years of Ms.: The Best of the Pathfinding Magazine That Ignited a Revolution,…