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Nov
16

Friday

9:00 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.   Healthy Bodies, Happy Kids Add to Schedule
9:00 a.m. - 2:15 p.m.   Mad Science Lab Add to Schedule
9:00 a.m. - 2:15 p.m.   The Rhythm Factory Add to Schedule
9:00 a.m. - 2:15 p.m.   The Paintbox Add to Schedule
9:00 a.m. - 2:15 p.m.   Tot Time Play and Learn Add to Schedule
9:30 a.m. - 2:15 p.m.   Target Reading Room & Mommy Lounge Add to Schedule
9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.   Andrew Smith with Passenger Add to Schedule
9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.   Jenny Han and Siobhan Vivian with Burn for Burn Add to Schedule
9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.   Michael Goodwin withEconomix Add to Schedule
9:30 a.m. - 2:15 p.m.   One World, Many Stories Add to Schedule
10:00 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.   World Stage Add to Schedule
10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.   Todd Parr with The Thankful Book Add to Schedule
10:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.   ...Happily Ever After Stage Add to Schedule
10:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.   Once Upon a Time... Stage Add to Schedule
10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.   Derek Kirk Kim with Tune: Vanishing Point Add to Schedule
10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.   Matthew Reinhart with Star Wars: A Galactic Pop-up Adventure Add to Schedule
11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.   Act Now Theatre! Add to Schedule
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.   Margi Preus with Shadow on the Mountain Add to Schedule
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.   Peter Reynolds with Sky Color Add to Schedule
11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.   Mac Barnett with The Brixton Brothers Add to Schedule
11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.   Malin Alegria with Border Town Add to Schedule
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.   Margaret Stohl with Beautiful Redemption Add to Schedule
12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.   Avi with Sophia’s War Add to Schedule
5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.   Manuel Estrada - Where Ideas Are Born: Add to Schedule
6:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.   Happy Hour with the Bookleggers & Literary Death Match Add to Schedule
6:30 p.m.   Lectura dramatizada: Pancha Garmendia y Elisa Lynch, de Augusto Roa Bastos Add to Schedule
6:30 p.m.   An Evening With Emma Donoghue Add to Schedule
7:00 p.m.   Una noche con Nélida Piñón Add to Schedule
7:30 p.m.   Mayor Manny Diaz sees Miami Transformed Add to Schedule
8:00 p.m.   Noche paraguaya Add to Schedule
8:00 p.m.   An Evening With Alan Ryan in conversation with Robert Weil Add to Schedule
Nov
17

Saturday

9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.   Target Reading Room & Mommy Lounge Add to Schedule
9:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.   Healthy Bodies, Happy Kids Add to Schedule
9:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.   Mad Science Lab Add to Schedule
9:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.   The Rhythm Factory Add to Schedule
9:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.   The Paintbox Add to Schedule
9:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.   Tot Time Play and Learn Add to Schedule
9:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.   One World, Many Stories Add to Schedule
10:00 a.m.   Adventure Time! Zack Giallongo on Broxo, Mac Barnett on Danger Goes Berserk and Chris Grabenstein on The Black Heart Crypt: A Haunted Mystery Add to Schedule
10:00 a.m.   Spotlight: Brazilian Literature: Laurentino Gomes on 1822 Add to Schedule
10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.   World Stage Add to Schedule
10:00 a.m.   Ready, Aim, Fire!: Character Assassination in Cuba: Gordiano Lupi, Juan Antonio Blanco, Uva de Aragon, Carlos Alberto Montaner and Rafael Rojas Add to Schedule
10:00 a.m.   Dave Barry on Lunatics and Seth Reiss and Will Tracy on The Onion Book of Known Knowledge Add to Schedule
10:15 a.m. - 6:30 p.m.   Conversatorios, lecturas y presentaciones de libros en el pabellón Add to Schedule
10:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.   ...Happily Ever After Stage Add to Schedule
10:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.   Once Upon a Time... Stage Add to Schedule
10:30 a.m.   So Spoke the Earth: Giving Haiti Voice with Joanne Hyppolite, Edwidge Danticat, Liliane Nerette-Louis, Mahalia Solages, Chantalle Francesca Verna, and Marie Ketsia Theodore-Pharel. Moderated by M.J. Fievre Add to Schedule
11:00 a.m.   Alternative Histories: Rodger Streitmatter on The Hidden Histories of Fifteen Extraordinary Same-Sex Couples and Michael Bronski on A Queer History of the United States Add to Schedule
11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.   Act Now Theatre! Add to Schedule
11:00 a.m.   David Unger y José Ignacio Valenzuela presentan sus nuevas obras (in Spanish) Add to Schedule
11:00 a.m.   James Grippando on Need You Now, Jeffrey Siger on Target: Tinos and Sharon Potts on The Devil’s Madonna Add to Schedule
11:00 a.m.   Lives Lived: Judy Goldman on Losing My Sister, Alex Witchel on A Memoir of My Mother’s Dementia, Robert Leleux on A Memoir of Forgetting and Forgiving Add to Schedule
11:00 a.m.   New Fiction: A Reading: Martin Amis on Lionel Asbo: State of England Add to Schedule
11:00 a.m.   Show Me the Money, Comics: Michael Goodwin on Economix in conversation with John Hogan, editor, GraphicNovelReporter.com Add to Schedule
11:00 a.m.   Sunshine State Histories: James C. Clark on Presidents in Florida and Claude Pepper’s Epic Defeat, Martin A. Dyckman on The Golden Age of Florida Politics and Robert Kerstein on Inventing the Conch Republic Add to Schedule
11:00 a.m.   The Chefs | Their Books: Julia Ross on The Diet Cure and Anne Byrn on Unbelievably Gluten-Free! Add to Schedule
11:00 a.m.   The Copyright Clearance Center Presents: Meet the Reporters: Andrew Albanese, Edward Nawotka and Alan Cheuse with moderator Christopher Kenneally Add to Schedule
11:00 a.m.   Cubans: An Epic Journey: Louise O’Brien, Guillermo Martinez, Cesar Pizarro and Sam Verdeja, with moderator Myriam Marquez Add to Schedule
11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.   MicroTeatro Add to Schedule
11:30 a.m.   Julio Estorino y un homenaje a Monseñor Román (in Spanish) Add to Schedule
11:30 a.m.   Darker Worlds: Andrew Smith on Passenger, and Jenny Han and Siobhan Vivian on Burn for Burn Add to Schedule
11:30 a.m.   Naomi Wolf on Vagina: A New Biography Add to Schedule
12:00 p.m.   American Histories: Carlin Romano on America the Philosophical and Henry Wiencek on Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves Add to Schedule
12:00 p.m.   Erin McHugh on 365 Days of Trying To Be Just a Little Bit Better, Brad Meltzer on Heroes for My Daughter and Julie Klam on A Field Guide to the People You Love, Hate, and Can’t Live Without Add to Schedule
12:00 p.m.   Into the Unknown: New Graphic Novels: Ilan Stavans on El Iluminado and Mark Siegel on Sailor Twain or The Mermaid in the Hudson and Derek Kirk Kim on Tune Add to Schedule
12:00 p.m.   The State of Erotica: M.J. Rose, Mitzi Szereto, Susie Bright, Aretha Bright, Carolina Garcia-Aguilera and Ily Goyanes, with moderator Mary Damiano Add to Schedule
12:00 p.m.   Camille Paglia on Glittering Images: A Journey Through Art From Egypt to Star Wars Add to Schedule
12:00 p.m.   See, Learn, Eat: Cooking Demonstration: Hiroko Shimbo on Hiroko’s American Kitchen: Cooking with Japanese Flavors Add to Schedule
12:15 p.m.   Mayra Santos Febres y Santiago Roncagliolo comentan sobre sus libros (in Spanish) Add to Schedule
12:30 p.m.   A Poetry Reading: Kevin Young on Poems of Food and Drink, Campbell McGrath on In the Kingdom of the Sea Monkeys, Dana Gioia on Pity the Beautiful, and Richard Blanco on Looking For The Gulf Motel Add to Schedule
12:30 p.m.   Classified Information: Brian Latell on The CIA and Cuba’s Intelligence Machine, Gregory Wallance on The Holocaust, FDR’s State Department, and the Moral Disgrace of an American Aristocracy Add to Schedule
12:30 p.m.   James W. Hall on Cracking the Code of the Twentieth Century’s Biggest Bestsellers, Susan Isaacs on Goldberg Variations and Joseph Kanon on Istanbul Passage Add to Schedule
12:30 p.m.   La importancia del misterio en la novela, con Benjamín Prado y Leopoldo Brizuela (in Spanish) Add to Schedule
12:30 p.m.   On Behavior: Lisa McCourt on 7 Simple Steps to Your Glorious, Gutsy Self and Susan M. Schneider on The Science of Consequences Add to Schedule
12:30 p.m.   The Chefs | Their Books: Maricel Presilla on Gran Cocina Latina: The Food of Latin America and Raquel Roque on The Cuban Kitchen Add to Schedule
12:30 p.m.   Michael J. Sandel on What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets Add to Schedule
1:00 p.m.   My Friend Dahmer: A Graphic Novel Memoir: Derf Backderf in conversation with Charlie Kochman, executive editor, Abrams ComicArts Add to Schedule
1:00 p.m.   New Fiction: A Reading: Margot Livesey on The Flight of Gemma Hardy, Susanna Moore on The Life of Objects and J.R. Moehringer, Sutton: A Novel Add to Schedule
1:00 p.m.   Teen Dreams: Jenny Han and Siobhan Vivian on Burn for Burn Add to Schedule
1:30 p.m.   Lives: Jamal Joseph on Panther Baby, Luisita Lopez Torregrosa on A Memoir of Love and Revolution and Joe Mozingo on An African Warrior, His White Descendants, A Search for Family Add to Schedule
1:30 p.m.   Lo nuevo de Silvia Núñez del Arco y Rosana Ubanell (in Spanish) Add to Schedule
1:30 p.m.   Superando los nuevos desafíos del siglo XXI, con Elaine King y Ariel Coro (bilingual panel) Add to Schedule
1:30 p.m.   The Golden Age of Pinup: Bunny Yeager on Bunny Yeager’s Darkroom Add to Schedule
1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.   MicroTeatro Add to Schedule
1:30 p.m.   Belles Lettres: A Spotlight on French Literature: Marc Levy in conversation with author Rosecrans Baldwin Add to Schedule
1:30 p.m.   Culture Shocks: Lori Andrews on Social Networks and the Death of Privacy, Hanna Rosin on The End of Men and Joan Walsh on What’s the Matter with White People? Add to Schedule
2:00 p.m.   Stories of the Caribbean and Beyond: Teresa Dovalpage on The Astral Plane, Anne Fountain on Disconnect/Desencuentro, and Diana McCaulay on Huracan Add to Schedule
2:00 p.m.   The Chefs | Their Books: Norman Van Aken and Justin Van Aken on My Key West Kitchen: Recipes and Stories Add to Schedule
2:00 p.m.   Three Poets: A Reading C.M. Clark, Charles Deering Forecasts the Weather & Other Poems, Catherine Esposito Prescott, The Living Ruin and Terri Witek, Exit Island Add to Schedule
2:00 p.m.   Tim Dorsey on Pineapple Grenade, Steve Forman on Boca Daze, Neil S. Plakcy on Dog Helps Those and Michael Haskins on Car Wash Blues Add to Schedule
2:00 p.m.   The World Over: Fiction and Nonfiction: Etgar Keret on Suddenly, A Knock on the Door, Pablo Medina on Cubop City Blues and Josip Novakovich on Shopping for a Better Country Add to Schedule
2:00 p.m.   See, Learn, Eat: A Cooking Demonstration: Anne Byrn on Unbelievably Gluten-Free! Add to Schedule
2:30 p.m.   Girls’ Lives: Meg Haston on How to Rock Break-ups and Make-ups, Raina Telgemeier on Drama and Sonia Manzano on The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano Add to Schedule
2:30 p.m.   Graphic Lives: Aline Crumb, Drawn Together: The Collected Works of Aline & R. Crumb, in conversation with scholar, Hillary Chute, author of Graphic Women Add to Schedule
2:30 p.m.   Letters to Kurt: Eric Erlandson in conversation with music journalist Hans Morgenstern on rock n’ roll, sex, drugs, suicide, fame and rage Add to Schedule
2:30 p.m.   New Novels: A Reading: William Heffernan on When Johnny Came Marching Home, Leonard Pitts, Jr. on Freeman and William Martin, The Lincoln Letter Add to Schedule
2:30 p.m.   Antonio Orejudo sobre su obra y su estilo, con Adriana Herrera (in Spanish) Add to Schedule
2:30 p.m.   Striking Fear: New Novels: Justin Cronin on The Twelve, Glen Duncan on Talulla Rising and Victor LaValle on The Devil in Silver Add to Schedule
2:45 p.m.   La literatura de Guillermo Cabrera Infante, con Miriam Gómez (in Spanish) Add to Schedule
3:00 p.m.   A Reading from New Fiction: Steven Raichlen on Island Apart, Michael Morris on Man in the Blue Moon and Danielle Sosin on The Long-Shining Waters Add to Schedule
3:00 p.m.   American Histories: Candice Millard on A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President, David Nasaw on Joseph P. Kennedy and Les Standiford on the Band of Radicals Who Led the Colonies to War Add to Schedule
3:30 p.m.   Before Trainspotting: Irvine Welsh reads from his new novel Skagboys Add to Schedule
3:30 p.m.   Is That a Word? David Bukszpan on From AA to ZZZ, the Weird and Wonderful Language of SCRABBLE Add to Schedule
3:30 p.m.   Lit Takes a Schvitz: The Sweat Broadsheet Collaboration: A Reading Add to Schedule
3:30 p.m.   On Comics: A Conversation: Charles Burns on The Hive, Chip Kidd on Batman: Death By Design and Chris Ware on Building Stories Add to Schedule
3:30 p.m.   Randy Rawls on Hot Rocks, Ali Brandon on A Novel Way to Die and Allan Topol on The Spanish Revenge Add to Schedule
3:30 p.m.   Sam no es mi tío, con Aileen El-Kadi, Diego Fonseca y Santiago Roncagliolo (in Spanish) Add to Schedule
3:30 p.m.   The Chefs | Their Books: Alex Hitz on My Beverly Hills Kitchen: Classic Southern Cooking with a French Twist and Hedy Goldsmith on Baking Out Loud: Fun Desserts with Big Flavors Add to Schedule
3:30 p.m.   World Politics: Edward Luce on America in the Age of Descent, David Rothkopf on The Epic Rivalry Between Big Business and Government and Steven A. Cook on The Struggle for Egypt Add to Schedule
3:30 p.m.   Fabulous Lives: Three Biographies: William J. Mann Becoming Barbra Streisand, Bob Spitz on The Remarkable Life of Julia Child and Jay R. Tunney on Gene Tunney and George Bernard Shaw Add to Schedule
3:45 p.m.   Enrique Krauze presenta su último ensayo (in Spanish) Add to Schedule
4:00 p.m.   YA Histories: Three Novels: Christina Diaz Gonzalez on A Thunderous Whisper, Margi Preus on Shadow on the Mountain and Avi on Sophia’s War Add to Schedule
4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.   MicroTeatro Add to Schedule
4:00 p.m.   Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl on Beautiful Redemption with movie stars, Alden Ehrenreich and Zoey Deutch Add to Schedule
4:00 p.m.   See, Learn, Eat: A Cooking Demonstration: Raquel Roque on The Cuban Kitchen Add to Schedule
4:30 p.m.   El erotismo en la literatura, con Ramón Alejandro, Abilio Estévez, Alberto Ruy Sánchez y Mayra Santos Febres (in Spanish) Add to Schedule
4:30 p.m.   Lives Lived: A Reading: Melanie Neale on Boatgirl: A Memoir of Youth, Love, and Fiberglass and Judith Hannan on Motherhood Exaggerated Add to Schedule
4:30 p.m.   Striking Terror: New Novels: Hugh Howey on Wool, Steven Barnes and Tananarive Due on Devil’s Wake Add to Schedule
4:30 p.m.   The Copyright Clearance Center Presents: Self-publishing with Matthew Cavnar, Jenny Pedroza, Mark Coker, M.J. Rose and moderator Christopher Kenneally Add to Schedule
4:30 p.m.   On Christopher Hitchens and Mortality with Carol Blue, Cary Goldstein, Martin Amis and Robert Weil Add to Schedule
5:00 p.m.   Nate Berkus on The Things That Matter Add to Schedule
5:00 p.m.   Promised Lands: Fiction and Nonfiction Comics: Leela Corman on Unterzakhn, Lila Quintero Weaver on A Memoir in Black and White and J.T. Waldman on Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me Add to Schedule
5:30 p.m.   Cita con Carlos Alberto Montaner (in Spanish) Add to Schedule
6:00 p.m.   Bill O’Reilly on Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot Add to Schedule
Nov
18

Sunday

9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.   Target Reading Room & Mommy Lounge Add to Schedule
9:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.   Healthy Bodies, Happy Kids Add to Schedule
9:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.   Mad Science Lab Add to Schedule
9:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.   The Rhythm Factory Add to Schedule
9:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.   The Paintbox Add to Schedule
9:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.   Tot Time Play and Learn Add to Schedule
9:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.   One World, Many Stories Add to Schedule
10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.   World Stage Add to Schedule
10:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.   Conversatorios, lecturas y presentaciones de libros en el pabellón Add to Schedule
10:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.   ...Happily Ever After Stage Add to Schedule
10:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.   Once Upon a Time... Stage Add to Schedule
10:30 a.m.   New Poems: Jesse Millner, Dispatches from the Department of Supernatural Explanation, Carol Lynne Knight on Quantum Entanglement, Lola Haskins on The Grace to Leave, and Tennessee Reed on New and Selected Poems Add to Schedule
10:30 a.m.   Wild Kingdoms: Craig Pittman on the World’s Most Beautiful Orchid, Jose Castro on The Sharks of North America, Jessica Speart on the World’s Most Notorious Butterfly Smuggler and Larry Perez on An Everglades Invasion Add to Schedule
10:30 a.m.   Literary Crimes: A Discussion: Lynne Barrett, Joseph Olshan, Joy Castro and Emily St. John Mandel Add to Schedule
10:30 a.m.   Gilbert King on Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America Add to Schedule
11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.   Act Now Theatre! Add to Schedule
11:00 a.m.   Andrés Pi Andreu y Orlando Rossardi presentan sus nuevas obras (in Spanish) Add to Schedule
11:00 a.m.   Andrew Solomon discussing his new work of nonfiction Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity Add to Schedule
11:00 a.m.   New Fiction: A Reading: Ellis Avery on The Last Nude, Michael Sledge on The More I Owe You: A Novel and Adam Braver on Misfit Add to Schedule
11:00 a.m.   Kurt Vonnegut: Life and Letters with Mark Vonnegut, Dan Wakefield and Don Farber Add to Schedule
11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.   MicroTeatro Add to Schedule
11:00 a.m.   New Fiction: Roberto Ampuero on The Neruda Case, Hari Kunzru on Gods Without Men and Jess Walter on Beautiful Ruins: A Novel Add to Schedule
11:00 a.m.   Molly Ringwald on When It Happens to You: A Novel in Stories Add to Schedule
11:30 a.m.   Bernard Diederich on The Seeds of Fiction: Graham Greene’s Adventures in Haiti and Central America 1954-1983 Add to Schedule
11:30 a.m.   Crime and Creativity in Jamaica: A Conversation: Kwame Dawes, Orlando Patterson., Deborah Thomas and Colin Channer, moderator Add to Schedule
12:00 p.m.   Chip Cooper on Old Havana/La Habana Vieja: Spirit of the Living City/El espiritu de la ciudad viva and Brian Smith on Secrets of Great Portrait Photography Add to Schedule
12:00 p.m.   Harry Hole Returns: Jo Nesbo on his latest novel, Phantom Add to Schedule
12:00 p.m.   Homenaje a Lorenzo García Vega con Jorge Luis Arcos, Ignacio Granados y Margarita Pintado (in Spanish) Add to Schedule
12:00 p.m.   Jean Zimmerman on The Orphanmaster, Michael Ennis on The Malice of Fortune, Debra Dean on The Mirrored World, and Da Chen on My Last Empress Add to Schedule
12:00 p.m.   Lives Lived: Deborah Baker on A Tale of Exile and Extremism, Rich Cohen on America’s Banana Add to Schedule
12:00 p.m.   On Creativity: Craft Talk for Writers and Artists with Conor McCreery, creator, Kill Shakespeare Add to Schedule
12:00 p.m.   The Chefs | Their Books: Heather McPherson on Recipes Celebrating Florida, Liz Gutman and Jen King on The Liddabit Sweets Candy Cookbook and Yvan Lemoine on Comidas USA Add to Schedule
12:00 p.m.   See, Learn, Eat: Cooking Demonstration: Maricel Presilla on Gran Cocina Latina: The Food of Latin America Add to Schedule
12:00 p.m.   James Patterson on Reading: A Whole Family Event Add to Schedule
12:15 p.m.   Novedades de ensayo con Pedro Corzo, Armando de Armas y Rafael Rojas (in Spanish) Add to Schedule
12:30 p.m.   A Reading: Sandra Marquez Stathis on The Search for a Haitian Boy, Reyna Grande on The Distance Between Us: A Memoir and Naomi Benaron on Running the Rift Add to Schedule
12:30 p.m.   The Wanderers: Doug Mack on Europe on 5 Wrong Turns a Day: One Man, Eight Countries, One Vintage Travel Guide and Tom Swick on The Best American Travel Writing Add to Schedule
12:30 p.m.   Florida Book Award Winners 2012: Lynne Barrett on Magpies, Bob Graham, Keys to the Kingdom, Jessica Martinez on The Space Between Us and Stephen Kampa on Cracks in the Invisible: Poems Add to Schedule
12:30 p.m.   New Novels: M.J. Rose on The Book of Lost Fragrances, Jessica Maria Tuccelli, Glow and B.A. Shapiro on The Art Forger Add to Schedule
1:00 p.m.   Anne Lamott on Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers Add to Schedule
1:00 p.m.   Narrativa joven del nuevo milenio con Andrés Barba y Carlos Yushimito del Valle (in Spanish) Add to Schedule
1:00 p.m.   Comics and Social Change: with Marjorie Liu, Dan Parent, Ellen Forney, and Stephanie McMillan. Moderated by DC Comics/Vertigo editor Joan Hilty. Add to Schedule
1:00 p.m.   The Last Four Years: David Maraniss on Barack Obama, Michael Grunwald on The Hidden Story of Change in the Obama Era and Neil Barofsky on How Washington Abandoned Main Street Add to Schedule
1:30 p.m.   On Food: Barry Estabrook on How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit, Aaron Bobrow-Strain on White Bread: A Social Historyand Josh Schonwald on the Future of Food, with moderator Art Freidrich Add to Schedule
1:30 p.m.   On Immigration Policy and Practice: Jeff Biggers on Arizona and the Final Showdown Over the American Dream and Christine G.T. Ho on Establishing Legitimacy and Rights For Displaced People Add to Schedule
1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.   MicroTeatro Add to Schedule
1:30 p.m.   Memoirs: Andre Dubus III on Townie, Melissa Coleman on This Life Is in Your Hands, Marco Roth on The Scientists, and Laura Bell on Claiming Ground Add to Schedule
1:45 p.m.   Mempo Giardinelli y el santo oficio de la memoria (in Spanish) Add to Schedule
2:00 p.m.   A Reading: Deni Y. Bechard on Cures For Hunger, Nura Maznavi on The Secret Love Lives of American Muslim Women, Susan Kushner Resnick on What a Holocaust Survivor Taught Me Add to Schedule
2:00 p.m.   A Reading: Robert Goolrick on Heading Out to Wonderful, Christopher Tilghman on The Right Hand Shore and Robert Olen Butler on The Hot Country Add to Schedule
2:00 p.m.   New Fiction for Teens: Malin Alegria on Border Town #3: Falling Too Fast, Jessica Martinez on The Space Between Us and Thane Rosenbaum on The Stranger Within Sarah Stein Add to Schedule
2:00 p.m.   New Fiction: Alan Cheuse on Paradise (or) Eat Your Face, Anthony C. Winkler on God Carlos and Paul Lisicky on Unbuilt Projects Add to Schedule
2:00 p.m.   Kris D’Agostino on The Sleepy Hollow Family Almanac, Lauren Groff on Arcadia, Jami Attenberg on The Middlesteins and Eleanor Brown on The Weird Sisters Add to Schedule
2:00 p.m.   City Noir, Desert Noir: Colin Channer and Kwame Dawes on Kingston Noir and Robert Arellano on Curse the Names Add to Schedule
2:00 p.m.   The Chefs | Their Books: Seamus Mullen on Seamus Mullen's Hero Food: How Cooking with Delicious Things Can Make Us Feel Better, Hiroko Shimbo on Hiroko's American Kitchen (Cooking with Japanese Flavors) and Norman Van Aken on My Key West Kitchen Add to Schedule
2:00 p.m.   El nuevo poder de la mujer, panel con Pilar Castaño, Mariela Dabbah y Alberto Ferreras (in Spanish) Add to Schedule
2:30 p.m.   Graphic Novels: Noah Van Sciver on The Hypo: A Graphic Portrait of the Melancholic Young Lincoln and Russ Kick on The Graphic Canon Add to Schedule
2:30 p.m.   Deborah Dash Moore, Howard Rock and Daniel Soyer on City of Promises: A History of the Jews of New York Add to Schedule
2:30 p.m.   On War: Jake Tapper on American Valor, Benjamin Busch on Dust to Dust: A Memoir and Brian Castner on A Story of War and the Life That Follows Add to Schedule
2:45 p.m.   Lo nuevo de Giovanna Rivero y Carlos Wynter Melo (in Spanish) Add to Schedule
3:00 p.m.   Historia y política reflejadas en la ficción, con Roberto Ampuero y Fernando Aramburu (in Spanish) Add to Schedule
3:00 p.m.   On Paris: Eloisa James on Paris In Love, Pamela Druckerman on One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting and Rosecrans Baldwin on Paris, I Love You, But You’re Bringing Me Down Add to Schedule
3:00 p.m.   Political Lives: Rachel L. Swarns, American Tapestry: The Story of the Black, White and Multiracial Ancestors of Michelle Obama, William Chafe, Bill and Hillary: The Politics of the Personal, and Manuel Roig-Franzia, The Rise of Marco Rubio Add to Schedule
3:00 p.m.   See, Learn, Eat: Cooking Demonstration: Liz Gutman and Jen King on The Liddabit Sweets Candy Cookbook Add to Schedule
3:30 p.m.   Laini Taylor on Days of Blood and Starlight, Tonya Hurley on The Blessed and Gennifer Albin on Crewel Add to Schedule
3:30 p.m.   Mark Helprin, reading from his new novel, In Sunlight and In Shadow Add to Schedule
3:30 p.m.   New Fiction: A Reading: Justin Torres on We the Animals, Nina Revoyr on Wingshooters, Adam Johnson on The Orphan Master’s Son and Scott Hutchins on A Working Theory of Love Add to Schedule
3:30 p.m.   Brave New Future: Speculative Fiction: Ellen Brazer on And So It Was Written Add to Schedule
3:30 p.m.   Lives Lived: Kate Bornstein on A Queer and Pleasant Danger, Susie Bright on Big Sex Little Death, Jeanne Cordova on A Memoir of Love and Revolution and T Cooper on Real Man Adventures Add to Schedule
3:30 p.m.   A Reading from New Comic Novels: Mark Leyner on The Sugar Frosted Nutsack, David Abrams on Fobbit and Antoine Wilson on Panorama City Add to Schedule
4:00 p.m.   Encuentro con María Estévez y Antonio Orejudo (in Spanish) Add to Schedule
4:00 p.m.   Exploring Middle Earth: Wayne Hammond and Christina Scull on The Art of The Hobbit and Corey Olsen on Exploring J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit Add to Schedule
4:00 p.m.   La novela negra cubana, con Ignacio Cárdenas Acuña, Matías Montes Huidobro y Rodolfo Pérez Valero (in Spanish) Add to Schedule
4:00 p.m.   Leopoldo Brizuela y Alberto Ruy Sánchez con sus nuevas novelas (in Spanish) Add to Schedule
4:00 p.m.   New Fiction: Pam Houston on Contents May Have Shifted, Christopher Beha on What Happened to Sophie Wilder, Rachel Joyce on The Unlikely Pilgrammage of Harold Fry and Eleni Gage on Other Waters Add to Schedule
4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.   MicroTeatro Add to Schedule
4:00 p.m.   Three Journeys: Andrew McCarthy on The Longest Way Home, Eric Weiner on My Flirtations with the Divine and Scott Wallace on the Amazon’s Last Uncontacted Tribes Add to Schedule
4:30 p.m.   A Miami Picaresque: J.J. Colagrande on Decò and Yousi Mazpule on Jinetera: Story of a Cuban Prostitute Add to Schedule
4:30 p.m.   Dark Worlds: J. Gabriel Gates on Blood Zero Sky and Conor McCreery on Kill Shakespeare Add to Schedule
4:30 p.m.   Encuentro con Maria Estevez y Antonio Orejudo Add to Schedule
4:30 p.m.   Mindworks: Daniel Smith on A Memoir of Anxiety, Susannah Cahalan on My Month of Madness, and David Finch on One Man’s Quest To Be A Better Husband. Add to Schedule
4:30 p.m.   The 99 Percent: James A. Robinson, Chris Hedges, Ishmael Reed, and Bryan Mealer Add to Schedule
4:30 p.m.   See, Learn, Eat: Cooking Demonstration: Yvan Lemoine on Comidas USA Add to Schedule
5:15 p.m.   Una Cita con Jaime Bayly (in Spanish) Add to Schedule
5:30 p.m.   Cine y censura: el caso P.M., con Orlando Jiménez Leal y Manuel Zayas (in Spanish) Add to Schedule
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