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300+ AUTHORS ON DEMAND
IN ENGLISH, SPANISH & CREOLE
streaming starts
NOVEMBER 15
FREE with registration at
How to Miami Book Fair Online Start Streaming Anywhere in 3 Easy Steps! Miami Book Fair starts November 15, 2020 on a new virtual platform with 300+ authors streaming free and on demand. 1. create your profile: To get started, visit MAMIBOOKFAIRONLINE.COM and sign up using your email or Facebook account. Complete your profile and share your interests to receive PERSONALIZED EMAIL NOTIFICATIONS about programs and activities as they become available. 2. build your watchlist: Once you log in you can browse program schedules by category or from a complete list of authors. Save events to Watchlist to START BUILDING YOUR PERSONAL SCHEDULE and receive notifications on the day of the events you don’t want to miss. 3. join conversations + explore: Streaming starts NOVEMBER 15. Join live events, stream authors on demand, read about writers in conversation, buy featured books, explore digital projects, listen to stories with your kids, shop virtual booths, and more! Scan here to get started!
welcome to the 37th miami book fair
Welcome to Miami Book Fair 2020, the first online Miami Book Fair in
our 36-year history. Transforming an event that has been exclusively in
what’s inside:
person for more than a generation has been a challenge, but connecting
the world to great books and their authors, and the opportunity for
growth through digital delivery of programs, has motivated all of us.
HERE IN FLORIDA page 4
Over three decades, we have built a Miami Book Fair that represents diversity of subject matter,
diversity of presenting authors, and diversity of fairgoers. A program that introduces more than
20,000 children each year to books and writers, instilling in each of them a love for reading that
will support their educational pursuits.
2020 POSTER page 5
Our mission is to engage our community through inclusive, accessible programs that promote
reading and support writers. On MiamiBookFairOnline.com, we are pleased to offer more
than 250 programs for streaming on demand and live – fiction and nonfiction authors, comics
artists and poets, and journalists and critics in conversation; readings and panel discussions; and
educational entertainment for kids. The Here in Florida project will highlight the stories of the
VIRTUAL
Sunshine State, as well as the work of visual artists and musicians who take inspiration from
our history and natural wonders. As in years past, the Fair Online will present authors in English,
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Spanish, and Haitian Creole to serve our home city’s residents, but also in the hope that those
language communities around the world will find a virtual home with us. Fulfilling our mission
has guided our 2020 MBF planning journey, but transforming the festival buzz felt by tens of
thousands of annual Fairgoers has been the magic we’ve tried to capture – we hope our
dynamic, interactive Children’s Alley, colorful virtual vendor booths, and Miami music playlists FRIENDS OF
get you in that MBF Street Fair mood. Though MBF 2020 will be online, we will still be Miami MIAMI BOOK FAIR page 7
Book Fair, and we look forward to gathering in person, once again, soon.
We are grateful to be part of Miami Dade College, a community college serving South Florida for
more than 50 years. On behalf of the entire Miami Dade College family and our staff, advisory
committees, and supporters and sponsors, we wish you the very best, and hope you enjoy all of PROGAM GUIDE
the programs you will find on MiamiBookFairOnline.com. And if you’re moved to support (Fiction, Nonfiction,
Poetry & Comcs)
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the Fair, please consider our membership program, Friends of the Fair. A financial contribution
through our Friends program will help ensure Miami Book Fair’s future, and our continued
contributions to a vibrant literary culture in Miami, and online.
Sincerely,
CHILDREN’S ALLEY +
GENERATION GENIUS page 26
MITCHELL KAPLAN DELIA LOPEZ LISSETTE MENDEZ
Chair, Board of Advisors Director of Operations Director of Programs
Miami Book Fair Miami Book Fair & Strategy, Miami Book Fair
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Office of the President District Board of Trustees AUTHORS PROGRAM page 34
DR. ROLANDO MONTOYA MICHAEL BILECA - Chair
Interim President CARLOS MIGOYA - Vice Chair
DR. ANAY ABRAHAM • ROBERTO ALONSO • MARCELL FELIPE
DR. LENORE P. RODICIO BERNIE NAVARRO • NICOLE WASHINGTON
Executive Vice President & Provost
NATALIA CRUJEIRAS
Miami Dade College is an equal access/equal opportunity institution and does not discriminate
on the basis of sex, race, color, marital status, age, religion, national origin, disability,
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veteran’s status, sexual orientation or genetic information. Contact the Office of Director,
Executive Director, Cultural Affairs Equal Opportunity Programs/ADA Coordinator, at 305-237-2577 for assistance.
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STERLING WATSON TERESA MARÍA ROJAS
EDUARDO PELÁEZ ANDRES REYNALDO
MÓNICA PRANDI CAMPBELL MCGRATH ROSIE INGUANZO NAEEM KHAN
MIRTA OJITO SERGIO ANDRICAÍN PEDRO MEDINA LEÓN JESSE MILLNER
CHARLES A. FLINK LUIS DE LA PAZ
CARIDAD MORO FRED GUTTENBERG
BARRY FELLMAN JAMES A. KUSHAN GERARDO FERNÁNDEZ FE DENIS FORTÚN
KENT RUSSELL JAMES PONTI RAMÓN FERNÁNDEZ LARREA
JOSÉ KOZER NICOLAS CABRERA-SCHNEIDER JEN KARETNICK
LAUREN GROFF MICHAEL RAY FITZGERALD
ANTONIO ORLANDO RODRÍGUEZ
CAMILO PINO HERNÁN VERA ALVAREZ
GEORGE HURCHALLA ELISA ALBO
JOHN GREGERSEN DAINERYS MACHADO
EXPLORE THE SUNSHINE STATE THROUGH AN
INTERACTIVE MAP WITH THE WORK OF MORE THAN JUBI ARRIOLA-HEADLEY LYNNE BARRETT
40 WRITERS, POETS AND OTHER ARTISTS INSPIRED JAQUIRA DIAZ JUAN CARLOS MIRABAL
BY LIFE IN OUR PENINSULA RICHARD BLANCO GERMÁN GUERRA
JOAQUÍN GÁLVEZ ORLANDO ROSSARDI
LAURA VALERI GLORIA NORIEGA ALEX SEGURA
Look for Here in Florida ROSIE INGUANZO GABRIEL GOLDBERG
at MiamiBookFairOnline.com ALICIA ZUCKERMAN JEFF VANDERMEER
ROY G. GUZMÁN GASTÓN VIRKEL ALFREDO TRIFF
Here in
GEORGE HURCHALLA GARY MONROE
KYANDREIA JONES LES STANDIFORD
ROXANNA ELDEN ARMANDO NUVIOLA
AMY PAIGE CONDON CAROL FROST
ARIEL FRANCISCO CHANTEL ACEVEDO
florida
JORGE RAMOS NELSON DELLIS
ENA COLUMBIÉ DELILAH DAWSON
DAVE BARRY
YANELA G. MCLEOD
ALEX FLINN ILIA CALDERÓN
NIKKI MOUSTAKI
PABLO BRESCIA
RICK KILBY
A Local Literary Showcase
SPONSORED BY
Featuring Visual Artist Gustavo Oviedo, 131 Projects Site-specific Digital Installations
by Artist Christina Patterson Films by Aaron Davidson Photography by Gary Monroe, Barry Fellman
& Carl Juste Made In Miami Playlists by Local Music Masters A Musical Performance by Richie Hell
A Walking Tour of Miami Beach with WLRN’s Alicia Zuckerman and legendary author Judy Blume
Plus Sunny Surprises
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37 th MIAMI BOOK FAIR POSTER
CREATED BY ARTIST + AUTHOR DAN SANTAT
DAN SANTAT
DAN SANTAT is the New York Times
bestselling author and illustrator
of The Adventures of Beekle: The
Unimaginary Friend, Are We There
Yet?, After the Fall, and Drawn
Together, and the illustrator of
many other picture books, including
Crankenstein by Samantha Berger.
MBF 2020
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SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR 2020 benefactors & friends OF MIAMI BOOK FAIR
BENEFACTOR: • Ellen & Sandy Nusbaum • Marsha Soffer
CHAIRMAN’S CIRCLE: Myrna & Sheldon Palley + Mark & Donna Kass
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: Sim Aberson & Mike Jankulak • Sara Adler & Eliot Abbott • Carolann W. Baldyga • Kathy Kilroy & Michael Blades Center for
Conflict Resolution, Inc. • Sandra & Stephen Colyer • Marcia Dunn • Yvonne Makenna • Lamar J. Noriega • Tim Regier • Penny & Richard Thurer
READER: Judy & Stephen Alderman • Susan & Charles Allen • Bernardine Atkins • Lyndenise Berdecia • Lisa Better • Susan Bieker • Daniel P. Brown
Arthur Buckelew • Nolen Bunker • Lauren Butcher • Mirtha Carballo • Lucinda Clark • Simmy Cohen • Carole Cook • Debra Dalin • Mimi & Gaston Daumy
Sarah Davis • Karen Decou • Donna Dial • Sally Dieguez • Diane Berman & Walter Dorfman • Suzanne Dunn • Patricia Elias • John Enger • Donna Fales
Susan & Alfred Feingold • Roni Fertig • Paula Finkle • Linda & David Frankel • Susan Galler • Eileen Glynn • Elizabeth Grass • Barbara Gray
Clifford Gray • Marcia Hackel • Susan Han • Ossie Hanauer • Frank Harrington • Gisela Haynes • Hannah & David Hostyk • Joan Husband
Janice & Herb Hymanson • Deborah Koch Candi Lacey • Karen Leckey • Nancy Lipoff • Elaine Litvak • Corinne & Stewart Merkin • Lynn Meyer
Robert Meyer • Robert Morison • Dale Moses • Pam Nelson • Dale Owen • Sue & Frank Pearl • Karen Pomerantz • Elena Postal • Kristin Potter-Oliveri
Paige Provenzano • Diana Reeves • Judy Loft & Joe Reid • Brooke Roberts-Webb • Meri-Jane Rochelson • Merle Rothenberg Saferstein • Marie Seibel
Marty Shuham • Arline & Lawrence Silver • Lorena Siqueira • Sharon Socol • Suzanne J. Stolar • Susanna Tarjan • Lisa Treister • Mary Tweedy
Ana Veciana-Suarez • Dianne R. Walsh • Kathy & Steve Werthman • Priscilla Felisky Whitehead
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both online and at venues all over Miami-Dade County through its
acclaimed cultural organizations.
Literature
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Streaming starts Nov. 15, 2020
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Visual Arts
NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK
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MUSEUM OF ART + DESIGN (MOAD)
The Body Electric
Nov. 5, 2020 - May 30, 2021
CUBAN LEGACY GALLERY
Remaking Miami: Josefina Tarafa’s
Josefina Tarafa, Photographs of the 1970s
Botanica Santo Niño de Atocha, ca. 1971 Through Feb. 28, 2021
KISLAK CENTER
Culture and Change in the Early Americas
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Performing Arts
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KOUBEK CENTER
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Body Electric
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For the most current schedule of Sunday, November 15
live author Q&As and surprise author
appearances, sign up for alerts at JAMES KUSHLAN on Seeking the American
Tropics: South Florida’s Early Naturalists, in
MiamiBookFairOnline.com.
conversation with JULIE WRAITHMELL,
executive director of Audubon Florida.
PLEASE NOTE: Many 2020 Miami Book Fair
programs were recorded in the month prior HERE IN FLORIDA
to the week of the Fair and will be available
NONFICTION DANIEL LEWIS
on demand per the schedule listed below.
Additionally, many of MBFO’s participating
authors will also appear live for audience Sunday, November 15
Q&As. For a complete list of live Q&As, please
sign up at MiamiBookFairOnline.com. Live DANIEL LEWIS and co-author DONNA
author Q&A schedules will appear on the site KRASNOW on A Life in Choreography and
and be sent to you by email. the Art of Dance, in conversation with
MADELEINE NICHOLS, curator of the
Dance Collection at the New York Public
Sunday, November 15 Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln
Center.
ROXANNA ELDEN on Adequate Yearly
Progress: A Novel HERE IN FLORIDA
NONFICTION
HERE IN FLORIDA
FICTION
Sunday, November 15
KENT RUSSELL
Sunday, November 15 GARY MONROE on The Last Resort: Jewish
South Beach, 1977-1986, in conversation
Miami Noir: The Classics editor LES with Miami Book Fair co-founder MITCHELL
STANDIFORD, in conversation with KAPLAN, and owner, Books & Books.
contributing authors PRESTON ALLEN,
LYNNE BARRETT, and JOHN DUFRESNE. HERE IN FLORIDA
NONFICTION
HERE IN FLORIDA
FICTION
Sunday, November 15
Sponsored by KENT RUSSELL on In the Land of Good
Living: A Journey to the Heart of Florida, in
conversation with CHRIS BEHA, author and
Sunday, November 15
executive editor, Harper’s Magazine.
Artist GUSTAVO OVIEDO on Symbiosis, in
HERE IN FLORIDA RUMAAN ALAM
conversation with Museum of Graffiti co-
founder and curator ALAN KETS. NONFICTION
HERE IN FLORIDA
Sunday, November 15
ART
RUMAAN ALAM on Leave the World Behind:
A Novel
Sunday, November 15
FICTION
RICHARD FORD on Sorry for Your Trouble:
Stories
FICTION
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TO PURCHASE THE BOOKS OF PRESENTING AUTHORS, VISIT MIAMI BOOK FAIR’S PARTNER BOOKSTORE, BOOKSANDBOOKS.COM
Sunday, November 15 Sunday, November 15
NATAN SHARANSKY and GIL TROY on NIKKY FINNEY on Love Child’s Hotbed
Never Alone: Prison, Politics, and My People, of Occasional Poetry: Poems & Artifacts
in conversation with opinion writer and and ROSS GAY on Be Holding: A Poem,
editor BARI WEISS, How to Fight Anti- in conversation with GABRIELLE
Semitism. CALVOCORESSI, Rocket Fantastic: Poems.
ELLEN MICHAELSON NONFICTION POETRY
Sunday, November 15
i B o o k Fa
Sunday, November 15
iam i
MBF/DE GROOT PRIZE
M
TOMMYE BLOUNT on Fantasia for the Man
r
FOR THE NOVELLA
in Blue, RICARDO ALBERTO MALDONADO
Winner of MBF/de
on The Life Assignment, and JOY PRIEST
de
on
Groot Prize for the ro
ti
g
ot
f o und
a on Horsepower, in conversation with JOHN
Novella physician ELLEN
KING, founder of the podcast, “The Drunken
MICHAELSON on The
Odyssey.”
Care of Strangers, in conversation with
author and physician DANIELA LAMAS, You POETRY
Can Stop Humming Now: A Doctor’s Stories of
Life, Death, and in Between. READING
READING AND CONVERSATION
Sunday, November 15
NIKKY FINNEY FICTION
CAROLYN FORCHÉ on In the Lateness of
the World: Poems
Sponsored by
POETRY
READING
FINALISTS OF MBF/DE GROOT PRIZE
KRISTEN SIMENTAL on Why, Arizona and
HOLLY TAKASHIMA on The Meaning of Sunday, November 15
Words
ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK:
FICTION INSIDE A CARTOONIST’S MIND
ADRIAN TOMINE on The Loneliness of
READING
the Long-Distance Cartoonist and LISA
Sponsored by
HANAWALT on I Want You.
In partnership with Portland Book Festival
COMICS
MARGARET ATWOOD THE VALUE OF A LITERARY PRIZE, a
conversation with CLYDETTE and CHARLES CONVERSATION
DE GROOT, Principals, de Groot Foundation,
DENNIS JOHNSON, Publisher, Melville
Sunday, November 15
House, publishing partner of the MBF / de
Groot Prize for the Novella; and MITCHELL NICHOLAS GRIFFIN on The Year of
KAPLAN, Chair, Miami Book Fair Board of Dangerous Days: Riots, Refugees, and
Advisors. Cocaine in Miami 1980, in conversation with
PANEL documentary filmmaker BILLY CORBEN.
HERE IN FLORIDA
Sponsored by
NONFICTION
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Sunday, November 15 Monday, November 16
RICK KILBY on Florida’s Healing Waters:
5 P.M. EST LIVE
Gilded Age Mineral Springs, Seaside Resorts,
AN EVENING WITH MARGARET and Health Spas, in conversation with
ATWOOD on Dearly: New Poems, in Orlando Sentinel “Florida Flashback”
conversation with New York Times Book columnist JOY WALLACE DICKINSON.
Review Editor PAMELA PAUL.
HERE IN FLORIDA ANN PATCHETT
BOOK PURCHASE REQUIRED
for admittance to this program; link for NONFICTION
purchase: MiamiBookFair.com.
POETRY Monday, November 16
CONVERSATION GARY MONROE on Alfred Hair: Heart of
the Highwaymen, in conversation with
Sponsored by Leslie Miller Saiontz Tampa Museum of Art curator JOANNA
ROBOTHAM.
Sunday, November 15 HERE IN FLORIDA
NONFICTION
7 P.M. EST LIVE
EXCLUSIVE MIAMI BOOK FAIR
Monday, November 16
FUNDRAISER!
An Evening With ANN PATCHETT on The JUBI ARRIOLA-HEADLEY on original kink BEN OKRI
Dutch House: A Novel and EMMA STRAUB
on All Adults Here: A Novel, in conversation with HERE IN FLORIDA
celebrated Broadway actor JULIE WHITE.
POETRY
TICKET PURCHASE REQUIRED
READING
for admittance to this program; link for
purchase: MiamiBookFair.com.
Monday, November 16
FICTION
BEN OKRI on Prayer for the Living, in
CONVERSATION conversation with journalist and book critic
ANDY TEPPER
Sponsored by Pam Nelson
FICTION
Monday, November 16
Monday, November 16
YANELA MCLEOD on The Miami Times: MAXIM LOSKUTOFF
The Fight For Equality: Race, Sport, and the MAXIM LOSKUTOFF on Ruthie Fear: A Novel
Black Press 1948-1958, in conversation with and MICHAEL ZAPATA on The Lost Book of
NADEGE GREEN, Director of Community Adana Moreau: A Novel, in conversation with
Research and Storytelling, Community JULIA PHILLIPS, Disappearing Earth.
Justice Project.
FICTION
HERE IN FLORIDA
NONFICTION
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TO PURCHASE THE BOOKS OF PRESENTING AUTHORS, VISIT MIAMI BOOK FAIR’S PARTNER BOOKSTORE, BOOKSANDBOOKS.COM
Monday, November 16 Monday, November 16
MAAZA MENGISTE on Addis Ababa Noir U.S. POETS LAUREATE
and SALAR ABDOH on Out of Mesopotamia, IN CONVERSATION
in conversation with EMILY RABOTEAU, Five U.S. Poets Laureate and the Librarian
Searching for Zion: The Quest for Home in of Congress sit down for a one-on-one
the African Diaspora. conversation about their latest books.
Featuring Librarian of Congress DR. CARLA
E.J. KOH FICTION HAYDEN, ROBERT HASS on Summer Snow,
BILLY COLLINS on Whale Day and Other
Monday, November 16 Poems, JUAN FELIPE HERRERA on Every
Day We Get More Illegal, and JOY HARJO,
MAX GROSS on The Lost Shtetl: A Novel, in When the Light of the World was Subdued,
conversation with Moriel Rothman-Zecher, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology
Sadness Is a White Bird. of Native Nations Poetry, in conversation
with poet CAMPBELL MCGRATH, and
FICTION NATASHA TRETHEWEY on Memorial Drive:
A Daughter’s Memoir, in conversation with
Monday, November 16 poet ELIZABETH ALEXANDER, President
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. With a
DAVID HOPEN on The Orchard: A Novel special introduction by ROBERT CASPER,
Library of Congress.
FICTION
ON DEMAND MONDAY, NOVEMBER, 16:
Monday, November 16 Librarian of Congress DR. CARLA HAYDEN,
DEBORAH PAREDEZ
in conversation with CAMPBELL MCGRATH,
MARK DOTY on What is the Grass: Walt Nouns & Verbs: New and Selected Poems,
Whitman in My Life, in conversation with with a special introduction by ROBERT
GABRIELLE CALVOCORESSI, Rocket CASPER, Library of Congress.
Fantastic: Poems.
EACH CONVERSATION WILL BE AVAILABLE
NONFICTION ON DEMAND, ONE PER DAY, THROUGH
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22.
Monday, November 16
POETRY
AIMEE NEZHUKUMATATHIL on World of READING
Wonder: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks,
and Other Astonishments
Monday, November 16
NONFICTION
2019 NATIONAL POETRY
READING SERIES WINNERS
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA HEID E. ERDRICH on Little Big Bully,
Monday, November 16 in conversation with AMY GERSTLER,
Scattered at Sea. Special introduction by
E. J. KOH on The Magical Language DANIEL HALPERN, founder of HarperCollins
of Others: A Memoir and MARCELO imprint Ecco and the National Poetry Series.
HERNANDEZ CASTILLO, Children of
the Land: A Memoir, in conversation with POETRY
REBECCA FRIEDMAN, Director, FIU READING
Humanities Lab.
NONFICTION
READING
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Monday, November 16 Tuesday, November 17
DEBORAH PAREDEZ on Year of the Dog: Poems, LAURA VALERI on After Life as a Human,
in conversation with poet LESLIE SAINZ. in conversation with author SANDRA
BEASLEY.
POETRY
HERE IN FLORIDA
READING
NONFICTION JEFFREY TOOBIN
Monday, November 16
Tuesday, November 17
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA on Night Animals
EDUARDO C. CORRAL on Guillotine and
POETRY ROY G. GUZMÁN on Catrachos.
READING HERE IN FLORIDA
POETRY
Monday, November 16
READING AND CONVERSATION
HOME IN THE LAST PLACE YOU LOOK
GARTH STEIN and MATTHEW Tuesday, November 17
SOUTHWORTH, The Cloven, and CHRIS
GOOCH, Under-Earth; moderated by HEIDI JENNIFER NANSUBUGA MAKUMBI on A
MACDONALD, editor-in-chief of comics Girl is A Body of Water: A Novel
blog, The Beat.
FICTION ROY G. GUZMÁN
COMICS
PANEL Tuesday, November 17
ARIEL FRANCISCO and JOSÉ NICOLÁS
Monday, November 16 CABRERA-SCHNEIDER on A Sinking Ship
is Still a Ship, in conversation with Burrow
6 P.M. EST LIVE Press publisher RYAN RIVAS.
AN EVENING WITH JEFFREY TOOBIN
HERE IN FLORIDA
on True Crimes and Misdemeanors:
The Investigation of Donald Trump, in POETRY
conversation with WLRN news director
READING
TOM HUDSON.
NONFICTION
Tuesday, November 17
Monday, November 16 LILY KING on Writers & Lovers: A Novel
KELLI JO FORD
FICTION
8 P.M. EST LIVE
AN EVENING WITH NICOLE KRAUSS
on To Be A Man: Stories, in conversation with Tuesday, November 17
LAUREN GROFF, Florida. KELLI JO FORD on Crooked Hallelujah
BOOK PURCHASE (TO BE A MAN: STORIES)
REQUIRED for admittance to this program; FICTION
link for purchase: MiamiBookFair.com.
FICTION
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Tuesday, November 17 Tuesday, November 17
DOUGLAS STUART on Shuggie Bain: A Novel 2019 NATIONAL POETRY
SERIES WINNERS
FICTION
BENJAMIN GARCIA on Thrown in the
Throat, in conversation with KAZIM ALI, The
Voice of Sheila Chandra. Special introduction
Tuesday, November 17
by DANIEL HALPERN, founder of HarperCollins
RODDY DOYLE
JOYCE CAROL OATES on Night. Sleep. imprint Ecco and the National Poetry Series.
Death. The Stars.: A Novel, in conversation
POETRY
with LISA BIRNBACH of the podcast, “5
Things With Lisa Birnbach.” READING
FICTION
Tuesday, November 17
Tuesday, November 17 JORIE GRAHAM on Runaway: New Poems
KARI LIZER on Aren’t You Forgetting POETRY
Someone?: Essays from My Mid-Life Revenge.
READING
NONFICTION
Tuesday, November 17
Tuesday, November 17
Red, White and Black in America with
CLAUDIA RANKINE NAEEM KHAN on Naeem Khan: Embellished, KEITH KNIGHT
in conversation with ASANYAH DAVIDSON,
COMICS
Chairperson, the Miami Fashion Institute at
Miami Dade College. PRESENTATION
HERE IN FLORIDA
Tuesday, November 17
NONFICTION
ART 5 P.M. EST LIVE
AN EVENING WITH RODDY DOYLE
Tuesday, November 17 on Love: A Novel.
FICTION
A U.S. POET LAUREATE IN
CONVERSATION
ROBERT HASS on Summer Snow, in Tuesday, November 17
conversation with CAMPBELL MCGRATH,
Nouns & Verbs: New and Selected Poems. 6 P.M. EST LIVE
DR. PAUL FARMER
POETRY
AN EVENING WITH CLAUDIA RANKINE
on Us: An American Conversation, in
READING conversation with New York public radio
WNYC’s REBECCA CARROLL, author of the
forthcoming memoir, Surviving the White
Gaze.
NONFICTION
Sponsored by
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Tuesday, November 17 Wednesday, November 18
ELIF SHAFAK on 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in
8 P.M. EST LIVE
This Strange World: A Novel
AN EVENING WITH DR. PAUL FARMER,
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Can Stop Humming Now: A Doctor’s Stories of Wednesday, November 18 ELIF SHAFAK
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NONFICTION Born: How Science and Public Health Gave
Children a Future, in conversation with PAM
FESSLER on Carville’s Cure: Leprosy, Stigma,
and the Fight for Justice.
Wednesday, November 18
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JEN KARETNICK on The Burning Where
Breath Used to Be
Wednesday, November 18
HERE IN FLORIDA ELLIS COSE on Democracy, If We Can Keep
POETRY It: The ACLU’s 100-Year Fight for Rights in
America, in conversation with DR. MICAH
READING W. KUBIC, executive director of ACLU of
Florida.
Wednesday, November 18 ELLIS COSE
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and KEITH S. WILSON; with a special
introduction by 2020 editor-in-chief FRANK WILDERSON III on Afropessimism
NATALIE SATAKOVSKI.
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HERE IN FLORIDA
MULTIGENRE Wednesday, November 18
READING SUNNY HOSTIN on I Am These Truths:
A Memoir of Identity, Justice, and Living
Wednesday, November 18 Between Worlds, in conversation with
political strategist and commentator ANA SUNNY HOSTIN
JESS WALTER on The Cold Millions: A Novel NAVARRO.
FICTION NONFICTION
Wednesday, November 18
LARRY WATSON on The Lives of Edie
Pritchard: A Novel
FICTION
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Wednesday, November 18 Wednesday, November 18
LIBRARIES IN TROUBLED TIMES KAZIM ALI on The Voice of Sheila Chandra
NANCY PEARL on The Writer’s Library: The
POETRY
Authors You Love on the Books They Love,
JANET SKESLIEN CHARLES, The Paris READING
Library: A Novel; RAY BAKER, Director,
Miami-Dade County Public Library System;
DANEZ SMITH Wednesday, November 18
moderated by AUDREY CHAPUIS, Executive
Director, American Library in Paris. DISPLACED AT HOME:
AN AMERICAN TALE
PANEL
EBONY FLOWERS on Hot Comb, MIKE
HAWTHORNE on Happiness Will Follow,
Sponsored by and KIKU HUGHES on Displacement.
COMICS
Wednesday, November 18
PANEL
A U.S. POET LAUREATE IN
CONVERSATION
Wednesday, November 18
BILLY COLLINS on Whale Day and Other
Poems, in conversation with CAMPBELL
7 P.M. EST LIVE
MCGRATH, Nouns & Verbs: New and Selected
Poems. The NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS, streaming
EBONY FLOWERS live, from New York City
HERE IN FLORIDA
FICTION
POETRY
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READING
POETRY
Wednesday, November 18
2019 NATIONAL POETRY
SERIES WINNERS Thursday, November 19
ALEXANDRIA HALL on Field Music: Poems, BARRY FELLMAN on Miami Creative: A
in conversation with ROSANNA WARREN, Decade of Transformation, in conversation
So Forth: Poems. Special introduction with ALBERTO IBARGÜEN, President
by DANIEL HALPERN, founder of and CEO of John S. and James L. Knight
HarperCollins imprint Ecco and the National Foundation, and journalist JORDAN LEVIN.
Poetry Series.
HERE IN FLORIDA
MIKEL JOLLETT POETRY
ART
READING AND CONVERSATION
Thursday, November 19
Wednesday, November 18
CHARLES A. FLINK on The Greenway
DANEZ SMITH on Homie: Poems and Imperative: Connecting Communities and
NATE MARSHALL on Finna: Poems, in Landscapes for a Sustainable Future, in
conversation with DR. WILLIAM HOBBS, conversation with MEG DALY, Founder,
English department chair at Florida Friends of The Underline.
Memorial University.
HERE IN FLORIDA
POETRY
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Thursday, November 19 Thursday, November 19
JESSE MILLNER on Memory’s Blue Sedan ANTHONY DEPALMA on The Cubans:
Ordinary Lives in Extraordinary Times
HERE IN FLORIDA
NONFICTION
POETRY
READING Sponsored by
SOPHIA CHANG
Thursday, November 19
Thursday, November 19
MIKEL JOLLETT on Hollywood Park: A A U.S. POET LAUREATE IN
Memoir
CONVERSATION
NONFICTION JUAN FELIPE HERRERA on Every Day
We Get More Illegal, in conversation with
CAMPBELL MCGRATH, Nouns & Verbs: New
Thursday, November 19 and Selected Poems.
EDDIE S. GLAUDE JR. on Begin Again:
POETRY
James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent
Lessons for Our Own READING
NONFICTION
Thursday, November 19
Thursday, November 19 2019 NATIONAL POETRY JUAN FELIPE HERRERA
SERIES WINNERS
SOPHIA CHANG on The Baddest Bitch
DIANE LOUIE on Fractal Shores: Poems, in
in the Room
conversation with SHEROD SANTOS, Square
NONFICTION Inch Hours: Poems. Special introduction by
DANIEL HALPERN, founder of HarperCollins
imprint Ecco and the National Poetry Series.
Thursday, November 19
POETRY
JACOB SOBOROFF on Separated: Inside
An American Tragedy, in conversation with READING
journalist and documentarian SOLEDAD
O’BRIEN. Thursday, November 19
NONFICTION Editors MARK EISNER and TINA ESCAJA
on Resistencia: Poems of Protest and
Thursday, November 19 Revolution, in conversation with translator
and poet JV PORTELA, with a special JOHN MURILLO
GERALDO CADAVA on The Hispanic introduction by JULIA ALVAREZ, Afterlife.
Republican: The Shaping of an American
Political Identity, from Nixon to Trump in POETRY
conversation with FERNAND AMANDI, READING
principal, Bendixen & Amandi.
NONFICTION Thursday, November 19
JOHN MURILLO on Kontemporary
Amerikan Poetry
POETRY
READING
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SPOTLIGHT ON THE LIFE AND WORK OF CAROL FROST on Alias City
CHARLES SCHULZ
HERE IN FLORIDA
Author and designer CHIP KIDD; cartoonist
PAIGE BRADDOCK; and Abrams ComicArts POETRY
Editorial Director CHARLIE KOCHMAN
READING
share their insights on Schulz’s life and
DERF BACKDERF
work, and on never-before-seen drawings
from the recently published Only What’s Friday, November 20
Necessary 70th Anniversary Edition: Charles
M. Schulz and the Art of Peanuts. CHRIS BEHA on The Index of Self-
Destructive Acts, in conversation with
COMICS GREG JACKSON, Prodigals: Stories.
FICTION
Thursday, November 19
A HISTORY OF DISSENT: ILLUSTRATED Friday, November 20
JOURNALISM
A VIRTUAL PACHANGA
CANDACY TAYLOR, Overground Railroad:
The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel
WITH LATINX WRITERS
in America; JARED REINMUTH, Big Black: ANGIE CRUZ on Dominicana: A Novel, AYA
Stand at Attica; DERF BACKDERF, Kent DE LEON on Side Chick Nation (Justice
State: Four Dead in Ohio; and CHRISTIAN Hustlers #4), CAROLINA DE ROBERTIS on
KEVIN KWAN STAEBLER, Redbone: The True Story of a Cantoras, and JAQUIRA DIAZ on Ordinary
Native American Rock Band. Girls: A Memoir.
COMICS FICTION
PANEL
Friday, November 20
Thursday, November 19 RAVEN LEILANI on Luster: A Novel
FICTION
6 P.M. EST LIVE
AN EVENING WITH KEVIN KWAN
on Sex and Vanity: A Novel, in conversation Friday, November 20
with NPR Books Editor PETRA MAYER.
BEN WINTERS on Golden State: A Novel
FICTION
FICTION
COLIN JOST Thursday, November 19
Friday, November 20
8 P.M. EST LIVE DAVID LITT on Democracy in One Book or
AN EVENING WITH TERRY MCMILLAN Less: How It Works, Why It Doesn’t, and Why
on It’s Not All Downhill From Here: A Novel, Fixing It Is Easier Than You Think
in conversation with GLORY EDIM, Well-
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Read Black Girl.
FICTION Friday, November 20
Sponsored by COLIN JOST on A Very Punchable Face: A
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Friday, November 20 Friday, November 20
GRACE HALE on Cool Town: How Athens, Grabbed: Poets & Writers on Sexual Assault,
Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Empowerment & Healing with editors
Changed American Culture, in conversation RICHARD BLANCO, CARIDAD MORO,
with journalist and filmmaker BILL TECK. NIKKI MOUSTAKI, and ELISA ALBO.
NONFICTION POETRY
LENNY KRAVITZ
CONVERSATION
Friday, November 20
LENNY KRAVITZ on Let Love Rule Friday, November 20
NONFICTION LOVE, COMMERCE, WAR:
SCI-FI ADVENTURE THRILLERS
JOHNNIE CHRISTMAS on Tartarus Vol
Friday, November 20
1., G. WILLOW WILSON on Invisible
A U.S. POET LAUREATE IN Kingdom Vol. 2, and BRANDON THOMAS on
CONVERSATION Hardcore Reloaded: Vol. 2.
JOY HARJO on When the Light of the World COMICS
was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A
Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry, in
conversation with CAMPBELL MCGRATH, Friday, November 20
Nouns & Verbs: New and Selected Poems.
CAN COMICS HELP SAVE OUR MICHAEL TORRES
POETRY DEMOCRACY?
DANIEL G. NEWMAN and GEORGE
READING
O’CONNOR on Unrig: How to Fix Our Broken
Democracy, R.SIKORYAK on Constitution
Sponsored by
Illustrated, and CYNTHIA LEVINSON on
Fault Lines in the Constitution; moderated by
Friday, November 20 JACOB BROGAN, assistant opinions editor
at The Washington Post.
2019 NATIONAL POETRY
SERIES WINNERS COMICS
MICHAEL TORRES on An Incomplete List
of Names: Poems, in conversation with PANEL
RAQUEL SALAS RIVERA, Lo Terciario/The
Tertiary. Special introduction by DANIEL Friday, November 20
HALPERN, founder of HarperCollins imprint
Ecco and the National Poetry Series. 6 P.M. EST LIVE
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POETRY AN EVENING WITH LOUISE ERDRICH
AND HEID E. ERDRICH
READING LOUISE ERDRICH on The Night Watchman:
A Novel and HEID E. ERDRICH on Little Big
Friday, November 20 Bully, in conversation.
JANE HIRSHFIELD on Ledger: Poems FICTION
POETRY
READING
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Friday, November 20 Saturday, November 21
YAA GYASI on Transcendent Kingdom: A
8 P.M. EST LIVE
Novel, in conversation with author NELL
AN EVENING WITH AYAD AKHTAR FREUDENBERGER.
AND PHIL KLAY
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Saturday, November 21
AN EVENING WITH DEAN KOONTZ
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Saturday, November 21 conversation with BENJAMIN PERCY,
Suicide Woods: Stories.
JOHN GREGERSEN on Yamato Colony: The
Pioneers Who Brought Japan to Florida FICTION
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DEAN KOONTZ Saturday, November 21 Saturday, November 21
GEORGE HURCHALLA on The Extraordinary WALTER MOSLEY on The Awkward Black
Life of Jane Wood Reno: Miami’s Trailblazing Man: Stories, in conversation with PAUL
Journalist COATES, founder and director of Black
Classic Press and BCP Digital Printing.
HERE IN FLORIDA
FICTION
NONFICTION
Saturday, November 21
Saturday, November 21
MARISEL VERA on The Taste of Sugar: A
AMY CONDON on A Nervous Man Shouldn’t Novel, in conversation with The Washington
Be Here in the First Place: The Life of Post book critic RON CHARLES.
Bill Baggs, in conversation with DAVID
LAWRENCE JR., former Miami Herald FICTION
publisher and chair of the Children’s
Movement of Florida. Saturday, November 21
JAMES MCBRIDE
HERE IN FLORIDA JAMES MCBRIDE on Deacon King Kong:
NONFICTION
A Novel, in conversation with syndicated
columnist and author LEONARD PITTS JR.
FICTION
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ARMANDO CORREA on The Daughter’s Tale: SHARON SALZBERG on Real Change:
A Novel, in conversation with author and Mindfulness to Heal Ourselves and the World,
journalist MIRTA OJITO. in conversation with SCOTT ROGERS.
HERE IN FLORIDA NONFICTION
FICTION ARMANDO CORREA
Sponsored by
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Saturday, November 21 SARAH FREY on The Growing Season: How
I Built a New Life – and Saved an American
FELICIA LEMUS on Particulate Matter Farm, in conversation with ADA CALHOUN,
FICTION Why We Can’t Sleep: Women’s New Midlife
Crisis.
NONFICTION
Saturday, November 21
GENEVIEVE HUDSON on Boys of Alabama: Saturday, November 21
A Novel, in conversation with KRISTEN
ARNETT, Mostly Dead Things. ÖZLEM CEKIC on Overcoming Hate Through
Dialogue: Confronting Prejudice, Racism, and
FICTION Bigotry with Understanding – And Coffee,
ERIN BROCKOVICH
in conversation with ERIC MARTIN,Your
Saturday, November 21 Leadership Moment: Democratizing
Leadership in the Age of Authoritarianism.
LEE CHILD on The Nicotine Chronicles, in
conversation with MICHAEL IMPERIOLI, NONFICTION
The Perfume Burned His Eyes.
FICTION
Saturday, November 21
ERIN BROCKOVICH on Superman’s Not
Sponsored by Coming: Our National Water Crisis and
What We the People Can Do About It, in
conversation with ANNA CLARK, The
Saturday, November 21 Poisoned City: Flint’s Water and the American
Urban Tragedy.
MELISSA M. PROCTOR on From Ball Girl
to CMO, in conversation with Hot 105 radio NONFICTION
news director and anchor TRACI CLOYD.
MARY MORRIS
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Saturday, November 21
Saturday, November 21
MARY MORRIS on All the Way to the Tigers:
TAMARA PAYNE on The Dead Are Arising: A Memoir
The Life of Malcolm X
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Saturday, November 21 Saturday, November 21
ILIA CALDERON on My Time to Speak: KIMIKO HAHN on Foreign Bodies: Poems and
Reclaiming Ancestry and Confronting Race ROSANNA WARREN on So Forth: Poems.
and MARIA HINOJOSA on Once I Was You: A
Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America, POETRY
in conversation with TERESA FRONTADO, READING AND CONVERSATION
executive editor of Austin public radio
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Saturday, November 21
NONFICTION
GRAPHIC MEDICINE:
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Saturday, November 21
TYLER FEDER on Dancing at the Pity Party,
P.J. O’ROURKE on A Cry from the Far A. ANDREWS on A Quick and Easy Guide to
Middle: Dispatches from a Divided Land, in Sex & Disability, VIVIAN CHONG on Dancing
conversation with DAVE BARRY, Lessons After TEN, and LUCY SULLIVAN on Barking;
from Lucy: The Simple Joys of an Old, Happy moderated by JOAN HILTY, editorial
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MARCUS SAMUELSSON Saturday, November 21 BIGOTRY AS A MONSTER
DAVID WALKER on Bitter Root series,
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MARCUS SAMUELSSON on The Rise: Sweetheart, and BRANDON THOMAS on
Black Cooks and the Soul of American Food, Excellence series.
in conversation with DAWN DAVIS,
vice president and publisher at Simon & COMICS
Schuster, and incoming editor-in-chief of PANEL
Bon Appétit.
In partnership with Portland Book Festival
Saturday, November 21
and Miami’s Overtown Book Festival
THE DARKNESS COMES:
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CONVERSATION ED BRUBAKER on Cruel Summer, JULIA
GFRÖRER on Vision: Book 1, KATIE SKELLY
on Maids, and ALEX SEGURA on Black
ROSANNA WARREN Saturday, November 21 Ghost.
KEVIN YOUNG on African American Poetry:
COMICS
250 Years of Struggle & Song, in conversation
with CAMPBELL MCGRATH, Nouns & Verbs: PANEL
New and Selected Poems.
POETRY
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MARIA, MARIA: HURRICANE STORIES STERLING WATSON on The Committee:
CELIA A SORHAINDO on Guabancex, A Novel, in conversation with author and
MARÍA T. PADILLA and NANCY ROSADO, screenwriter DENNIS LEHANE, Since We
on Tossed to the Wind, and KEREEN Fell and “The Wire.”
GETTEN on When Life Gives You Mangoes;
moderated by GEOFFREY PHILP, Hurricane HERE IN FLORIDA
Center, and LUIS HERNANDEZ, news ACHY OBEJAS
FICTION
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magazine show, “Sundial.” In English.
Sunday, November 22
READCARIBBEAN
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PANEL BANCROFT, in conversation with
contributing authors MICHAEL CONNELLY
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Saturday, November 21
Sunday, November 22
SO QUEER AND SO CARIBBEAN
ACHY OBEJAS on The Tower of the MICHAEL FITZGERALD on Jacksonville and
Antilles, KACEN CALLENDER on King of the Roots of Southern Rock, in conversation
MICHAEL FITZGERALD
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director of the Wolfsonian Public Humanities HERE IN FLORIDA
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Saturday, November 21
Sunday, November 22
A Conversation with ROXANE GAY on MARY GORDON
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SIMON HAN on Nights When DORIS WEATHERFORD on Victory for the
Nothing Happened Vote: The Fight for Women’s Suffrage and
the Century That Followed
FICTION
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Sunday, November 22
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
Sunday, November 22
CHUCK PALAHNIUK on The Invention
of Sound PETER BAKER and SUSAN GLASSER on
The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and
FICTION Times of James A. Baker III, in conversation
with journalist and author MICHAEL
Sunday, November 22 GRUNWALD.
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Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir, in conversation
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W. Mellon Foundation ELIZABETH Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X
ALEXANDER, and Martin Luther King Jr. and REVEREND
DR. WILLIAM BARBER II on We Are Called
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NATASHA TRETHEWEY
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Sunday, November 22 NONFICTION
PAUL THEROUX on On the Plain of Snakes:
A Mexican Journey, in conversation with Sunday, November 22
LUIS ALBERTO URREA, The House of
Broken Angels: A Novel. SUSANNE KOELBL on Behind the Kingdom’s
Veil: Inside the New Saudi Arabia Under
NONFICTION Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, in
conversation with VICTOR MCFARLAND
on Oil Powers: A History of the U.S. Saudi
Sunday, November 22 Alliance, and MOHAMEDOU OULD SLAHI
DAVID NASAW on The Last Million: on Guantanamo Diary.
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JULIE MARIE WADE on Just an Ordinary
Sunday, November 22 Woman Breathing
EDUARDO PORTER on American Poison:
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FRED HOCHBERG on Trade Is Not a Four-
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YONA HARVEY on You Don’t Have to Go to THE QUEENS, EMPRESSES, AND FIRST
Mars for Love and MAJOR JACKSON on The LADIES OF HAITI
Absurd Man: Poems. BAYYINAH BELLO on SHEROES of the
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Sunday, November 22
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for Haitian Studies board of directors.
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wonders of music, science, art,
storytelling, world cultures,
and health, from November 15
onward. And don’t worry,
if the Internet breaks from
all this awesomeness, you’ll
be able to fix it –
coding workshops are
taking place!
TAPTAP KRIK? KRAK!
Haitian and Caribbean stories, music,
dance, and more are brought right to
your virtual door on the Taptap Krik?
Krak! bus, an interactive trip in English
and Haitian Creole!
VISIT WEMBLY WORDSMITH’S STORYTORIUM
for children’s authors and storytellers.
26 Information presented in this guide is subject to change. For the most up-to-date schedule visit MiamiBookFairOnline.com.IberoAmerican
Generation genius Children's Alley
Authors Program
MAKER FAIRE MIAMI
Invent & Experiment!
HEALTHY BODIES, HAPPY KIDS Enjoy a reading of B is for Battle Bots
sponsored by UHealth and a LIVE Q&A with Battle Bot Captain
Jackson Children’s Care Andrea Gellatly; build a video game and use
Snuggle up for a series of videos TinkerCAD to design amazing structures; and
and activities the whole family can watch and use to get healthy sit down for storytime with Miss Pamela of
and happy; stay prepared with best safety practices for household Bubbles & Mango TV and I Didn’t Ask to Be
poisons and fire hazards; explore nutrition and healthy eating; and Creative – then come back for a LIVE Q&A
relish easy-to-make recipes everyone can help whip up! with author Dontavious Pittman!
h y Bodies, Happy Kids!
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PICNIC DE LIBROS
Grab a snack pack and a blanket for storytime, mime and
circus performances, music, arts and crafts tutorials, and
theater, presented by a bilingual English-Spanish cast of
hosts and characters that will charm and engage little
ones!
THE RHYTHM FACTORY
Join global music makers and artists for workshops
on writing electronic music, spoken word pieces, and
hip-hop songs; learn about different drum styles and
how to create some funky beats; enjoy kid yoga and
mindfulness mini-classes; make instruments and
draw your own concert poster; and attend a LIVE
concert with Ayisyen-American (Haitian-American)
multidisciplinary artist Inez Barlatier!
THE PAINTBOX with ProjectART and Miami Artists
Get ready for a unique series of story-based art workshops for elementary through high school-age artists,
using materials you probably already have stuffed away in a drawer! You’ll meet New Orleans-based artist
duo Milagros and create an abstract mural using their signature style of mark making, repetition, and color;
and follow Miami-based street artists Didi and Luis Berros as they take you step-by-step through creating
some of their characters and teach you how to draw your own tutu-girl or Mickey Mouse!
/miamibookfair #MBF2020 #MiamiBookFairOnline 27Author Programs for Children + Teens
For the most current schedule of Sunday, November 15 Sunday, November 15
Live Author Q&As and surprise author
appearances, sign up for alerts at GRADES PRE K - 3 GRADES 9-12
MiamiBookFairOnline.com. DAN SANTAT on The Alphabet’s TRUTH OR DARE WITH
Alphabet DC’S YA AUTHORS
PLEASE NOTE: Many 2020 Miami Book Fair
KAMI GARCIA on Teen Titans: Raven,
programs were recorded in the month
LIVESTREAM Q&A WITH DAN! Check Teen Titans: Beast Boy, DANIELLE PAIGE
prior to the week of the Fair and will be
available on demand per the schedule schedule at MiamiBookFairOnline.com on Mera: Tidebreaker, LAURIE HALSE
listed below. Additionally, many of our ANDERSON on Wonder Woman: Tempest
participating authors will also appear PICTURE BOOK Tossed, ALEX SANCHEZ on You Brought
live for audience Q&As. For a complete STORYTIME Me The Ocean, SARAH KUHN on Shadow
list of live Q&As, please sign up at Of The Batgirl, and MAGGIE STIEFVATER
MiamiBookFairOnline.com. Live author on Swamp Thing: Twin Branches.
Q&A schedules will both appear on the Moderated by MICHELE WELLS, VP &
Sunday, November 15
site and be sent to you by email. Executive Editor, DC Young Reader.
To purchase the books of presenting GRADES 5-9
YOUNG ADULT
authors, visit Miami Book Fair’s partner KWAME
bookstore, BooksandBooks.com ALEXANDER PANEL
on Becoming
Muhammad Ali
and IBI ZOBOI on Sunday, November 15
MIAMI BOOK FAIR’S CHILDREN’S
PROGRAMMING WOULDN’T BE Punching the Air,
in conversation GRADES 9-12
POSSIBLE WITHOUT THE GENEROUS
SUPPORT OF OUR SPONSORS. with MBF Program A VIRTUAL
Coordinator and PACHANGA:
YA book reviewer THE YA EDITION
ISMERY PAVON. ELIZABETH
ACEVEDO on Clap
FREE BONUS DOWNLOAD: When You Land and
Becoming Muhammad Ali Educator’s ISMÉE WILLIAMS on
Guide on MiamiBookFairOnline.com This Train Is Being
Held.
CHILDREN
FREE BONUS DOWNLOAD:
CONVERSATION Official Spotify playlist for This Train is
Being Held on MiamiBookFairOnline.com
Sunday, November 15 YOUNG ADULT
CONVERSATION
GRADES 3-7
FATE, FEAR, AND FANTASY: THREE
WRITERS ON THE POWER OF GOOD Monday, November 16
AND EVIL
SOMAN CHAINANI on The School for GRADES PRE K - 3
Good and Evil #6: One True King, TONY KITTY O’MEARA on And the People
DITERLIZZI on Kenny & the Book of Stayed Home, a reading and
Beasts, and NNEDI OKORAFOR on conversation with CARMEN A.
Ikenga. CENTENO, Miami-Dade Public Library
System.
Children's Program Media Partners: CHILDREN
PANEL PICTURE BOOK
STORY TIME
28 Information presented in this guide is subject to change. For the most up-to-date schedule visit MiamiBookFairOnline.com.Author Programs for Children + Teens
Monday, November 16 Monday, November 16 Tuesday, November 17
GRADES 3 - 7 GRADES 9-12 GRADES 3 - 7
SET A SPY TO SAVE THE WORLD PERILOUS SCHEMES, MAHOGANY
JAMES PONTI on City Spies and EMMA DANGEROUS SKIES L. BROWNE,
OTHEGUY on Carmen Sandiego: Secrets JEFF VANDERMEER on A Peculiar ELIZABETH
of the Silver Lions, in conversation Peril and ALEX LONDON on The ACEVEDO,
with M-DCPS teacher JESSICA REBHAN. Skybound Saga #3: Gold Wings Rising, and OLIVIA
in conversation with MBF Program GATWOOD
FREE BONUS DOWNLOAD:
Coordinator and YA book reviewer discuss Woke:
City Spies Reading Group Guide on
ISMERY PAVON. A Young Poet’s
MiamiBookFairOnline.com
Guide to
YOUNG ADULT Justice, with an introduction by JASON
CHILDREN
REYNOLDS, Long Way Down.
CONVERSATION
HERE IN FLORIDA
CHILDREN
CONVERSATION
Monday, November 16 READING AND CONVERSATION
Monday, November 16 GRADES 9-12
TOR TEEN PRESENTS Tuesday, November 17
GRADES 5 - 9 OWN YOUR MAGIC
3 P.M. EST / ABBY WAMBACH on TJ KLUNE on The Extraordinaries and GRADES 5 - 9
Wolfpack, in conversation with House of the Cerulean Sea, BETHANY
Miami Herald sportswriter MICHELLE C. MORROW on A Song Below Water, NELSON DELLIS on Memory
KAUFMAN. MARK OSHIRO on Each of Us is a Superpowers!: An Adventurous Guide
Desert, and LAUREN SHIPPEN on A to Remembering What You Don’t Want
CHILDREN Neon Darkness. Moderated by MBF to Forget
program coordinator and YA book
HERE IN FLORIDA CHILDREN
reviewer ISMERY PAVON.
CONVERSATION HERE IN FLORIDA
YOUNG ADULT
READING AND MEMORY EXERCISE
4 P.M. EST / LIVESTREAM Q&A WITH ABBY! PANEL
Watch the book trailer! on
MiamiBookFairOnline.com Tuesday, November 17
Tuesday, November 17
GRADES 9 - 12
Monday, November 16
GRADES PRE K -3 THE FIGHT FOR JUSTICE & TRUTH
SHELLY ANN NIC STONE on Dear Justyce, and
GRADES 9-12
FRASER PRYCE IBI ZOBOI, and YUSEF SALAAM on
WHODUNIT: MURDER, Punching the Air.
on I Am a
MYSTERY, AND MAYHEM
Promise FREE BONUS DOWNLOAD:
JENNIFER LYNN BARNES on The
Inheritance Games and DIANA Punching the Air Educators’ Guide
PICTURE BOOK on MiamiBookFairOnline.com
PETERFREUND on In the Study with
the Wrench, in conversation with STORY TIME
YOUNG ADULT
OLINE COGDILL, mystery fiction book
reviewer for the Sun Sentinel and CONVERSATION
Publishers Weekly.
YOUNG ADULT
CONVERSATION
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