Literature

The first Miami Book Fair (1984) was founded by Miami Dade College and community partners, since then, it has been recognized as the nation’s finest literary festival. Each November hundreds of authors and readers converge on Downtown Miami for the nation’s premier literary festival. The Fair will open with the popular Evenings With… series, featuring nights of readings and discussions with noted … +

The Desert and the Cities Sing: Discovering Today’s Israel is a unique treasure box including photographs by Neil Folberg, films, books and more. is an exploration of Israel by two intrepid travelers, Lin Arison and Diana C. Stoll. Through encounters with world-renowned artists, educators and innovators, they reveal the richness of a country many know only through front-page headlines. Free Event Includes: … +

CCEMiami and Ediciones Baquiana present Theater (All the roads,Summer cloud,The best solution) by Cuban author Guillermo Arango. A form of theater based in the observation of the behavior of the human beings when they are not conscious of their own behavior. This is expressed in irrational and spontaneous dialogues. Guillermo Arango (Cuba b.1939 )He is a poet, narrator, essayist and playwright. He … +

MOCA call for participants able to share true personal stories about a time when the intersection of your social identities challenged and changed you. Who we are is an intersection of identities: Age. Gender. Race. Class. Culture. Sexual orientation. Religion. Politics. Ethnicity. Language. Physical ability. Physical challenge. Sometimes, identity is what holds us together; other times it pulls us apart. Twelve readers … +

On April 1st, O, Miami kicks off the month with a poetic boat ride up the Miami River. The festival ends on April 30th with a teen poetry and music competition. In between, O, Miami celebrates contemporary poetry and transforms Greater Miami into a canvas for the literary arts, and the ideas to get poems in front of Miamians this year are … +

CCEMiami and Books&Books invites you to the book presentation: “A los que amaron a mujeres difíciles y acabaron por soltarse” by Concha Buika. Spanish Grammy winning artist Concha Buika and her alter ego Kitailo will ‘perform’ poems, stories and chants from her recent book “ A los que amaron a mujeres difíciles y acabaron por soltarse with Ramon Porrina/Cajon and special guests. … +

CCEMiami invites you to the book presentation: Ficciones Criminales: Estampas de la crisis (2008-2014) by Mexican writer Jorge Volpi. He is a novelist and essayist, best known for his novels such as En busca de Klingsor. Trained as a lawyer, he gained notice in the 1990s with his first publications and participation in the pronouncement of the “Crack Manifesto” with several other … +

Books & Books, Coral Gables. December 20, 2013, 8:00 p.m. Photographer Jake Mayfield, undertaking a personal quest for artistic integrity, finds beauty, passion, and racial discord on the lush and feral Caribbean island of Soufrière.

Books & Books, Coral Gables. December 17, 2013, 8:00 p.m. In an elite college in a once-decaying New England city, Steven Brookman has come to a decision. A brilliant but careless professor, he has determined that for the sake of his marriage, and his soul, he must extract himself from his relationship with Maud Stack, his electrifying student, whose papers are always … +

Books & Books, Coral Gables. December 11, 2013, 8:00 p.m. In 1950s Jewish Boston, Dale Stanten’s mother established a home-based business as a prostitute to remedy her husband’s inability to provide for his family. At age six, the author was answering the front door for johns. Neighbor children were forbidden to play with her and even the Girl Scouts asked her to … +

Books & Books, Coral Gables, December 12, 2013, 8:00 p.m. Published to glowing reviews, this riveting narrative takes us back to when the Cuban Revolution was young and offers a new and surprising look at Fidel Castro.

Books & Books, Coral Gables. December 4, 2013, 8:00 p.m. The New York Times Book Review calls Edgar Award–winner James W. Hall a “master of suspense” and this new high-stakes thriller Going Dark shows why as Thorn embarks on a mission to save his new-found son.

November 26, 2013, 8:00 p.m. Kolie Crutcher, the award-winning author of Electric Living-The Science Behind the Law of Attraction, will be holding an author presentation and book signing at Books & Books Coral Gables. The Books & Books appearance is the last event of Crutcher’s week-long visit to South Florida. Crutcher will be in town to receive the 2013 Readers’ Favorite Gold … +

University of Miami Field House. November 15, 2013, 6:00 p.m. America’s most prominent legal mind and the #1 bestselling author of Chutzpah and The Best Defense, Alan Dershowitz, recounts his legal autobiography, describing how he came to the law, as well as the cases that have changed American jurisprudence over the past 50 years, most of which he has personally been involved … +

Books & Books, Coral Gables. November 1, 2013, 6:30 p.m. At a time when fashion and decoration set the tone and absorbed the attention of society more than politics and economics, it isn’t surprising that the first priority of Marie Antoinette was to be queen of fashion.

Books & Books. October 28, 2013, 8:00 p.m. Tigertail Productions is launching Tigertail, A South Florida Poetry Annual: Sunstruck Matches. This tenth edition of Tigertail’s annual publication is edited by noted poet and food/wine writer Jen Karetnick.

Miami Dade College, Wolfson Campus Auditorium. October 9, 2013, 7:30 p.m. In The Signature of All Things, Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction, inserting her inimitable voice into an enthralling story of love, adventure and discovery. Spanning much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the novel follows the fortunes of the extraordinary Whittaker family as led by the enterprising Henry Whittaker – a … +

Books & Books, Coral Gables. September 16, 2013, 8:00 p.m. Local author Lori St John, Esq, CPA debuts her first non-fiction legal thriller, The Corruption of Innocence, A Journey for Justice. How did the wife of a prominent surgeon find herself at the death chamber battling the American justice system with the Pope and Mother Teresa in her corner?

Books & Books, Bal Harbour Shops. September 12, 2013, 6:00 p.m. When Zia Donatella comes to live with the Bertolizzi family, little do Alfie and his older sister Emilia know what’s in store for them. Zia Dontella is determined to show the kids how a home-cooked meal is better than even the best take-out pizza or burrito.

Books & Books, Coral Gables. September 17, 2013, 8:00 p.m. From the bestselling author of The Color of Water and Song Yet Sung comes the story of a young boy born a slave who joins John Brown’s antislavery crusade – and who must pass as a girl to survive.

Books & Books, Coral Gables. August 16, 2013, 8:00 p.m. Kerrigan is writing a guidebook to his adopted city of Copenhagen. Specifically, a guide to the city’s drinking establishments-of, which there are more than 1,500.Thus, it is a project potentially without end, and one with a certain amount of numbness built into it, through countless drinks imbibed.