Weekend Author Sessions

Saturday, Nov.14 - Sunday, Nov. 15

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weekend-author-sessionsOn Saturday and Sunday, the Festival of Authors continues when more than 300 authors present their works, including the Latin American and Spanish authors who participate in the IberoAmerican Authors Program, and the up-and-coming Florida writers.

Events

Saturday

9:30 a.m.Al Gore on Our Choice (Free admission - Ticket required)
10:00 a.m.Don Bruns on Bahama Burnout, Patrick Kendrick on Papa's Problem and Neil Plakcy on Mahu, Vice
10:00 a.m.Lidia Bastianich on Lidia Cooks from the Heart of Italy
10:30 a.m.Frank I. Luntz on What Americans Really Want. . .Really
10:30 a.m.Michael Davis on Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street and Roxanna Elden on See Me After Class: Advise for Teachers by Teachers
11:00 a.m.Jeff Lindsay on Dexter by Design, Richard Belzer on I Am Not a Psychic and Paul Levine on Illegal: A Novel
11:00 a.m.Meg Cabot on Allie Finkle’s Rules for Girls
11:00 a.m.Kenneth Hart on Uh Oh Time, James Shea on Star in the Eye, and Julie Kane on Jazz Funeral
11:00 a.m.PEN International presents Ana Menendez, Francine Prose, Mary Gordon, Michael Thomas and Sam Tanenhaus  (Free admission - Ticket required)
11:00 a.m.Raymond Arsenault on The Sound of Freedom: Marian Anderson, the Lincoln Memorial, and the Concert that Awakened America and Patricia Sullivan on Lift Every Voice: The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement
11:00 a.m.Sam Barry on How to Play the Harmonicaand Other Life Lessons I Learned and Tom Wilson on How Ziggy Saved My Life
11:30 a.m.Alexandra Avakian on My Journeys in the Muslim World, Kathy Doore on Markawasi: Peru’s Inexplicable Stone Forest and Mike Torrey on Machu Picchu’s Terraces of Enlightenment
11:30 a.m.Dan Goldman on 08: A Graphic Diary of the Campaign Trail, Josh Neufeld, A.D. After the Deluge and Joshua Dysart, Unknown Soldier
11:30 a.m.Tim Dorsey on Nuclear Jellyfish, Leighton Gage on Buried Strangers, Michael Lister on Double Exposure and Deborah Shlian on Dead Air
11:30 a.m.Stuart Weisberg on Barney Frank
12:00 p.m.Michael Greenberg on Beg, Borrow, Steal: A Writer's Life and Alan Cheuse on A Trance After Breakfast and Robert Olen Butler on Hell: A Novel
12:00 p.m.Peter Lerangis on The 39 Clues
12:00 p.m.Taylor Branch on The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History With the President  (Free admission - Ticket required)
12:00 p.m.Tigertail presents Word Speak: A Spoken Word Performance for Teens
12:30 p.m.Cool, Hot Jazz with David Hajdu and Karen Oberlin, Heroes and Villains
12:30 p.m.Jamie Ford, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet and Shilpa Agarwal, Haunting Bombay
12:30 p.m.Max Frankel in conversation with Joyce Purnick on Mike Bloomberg: Money, Power, Politics
12:30 p.m.Philip Nanton on Island Voices from Christopher & the Barracudas and Jeff Henry on Under the Mas': Resistance and Rebellion in the Trinidad Masquerade
12:30 p.m.Joyce Carol Oates on Little Bird of Heaven
1:00 p.m.David Small and Robert Weil, executive editor, W.W. Norton & Co. in conversation about Stitches: A Memoir Moderator: John Shableski, Diamond Book Distributors
1:00 p.m.Ben Winters and Jason Rekulak on Pride and Prejudice with Zombies and Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters
1:00 p.m.(Cancelled) Dr. Sanjay Gupta on Cheating Death
1:00 p.m.Mike Farrell on Of Mule and Man  (Free admission - Ticket required)
1:00 p.m.Kenneth Treister on Havana Forever
1:30 p.m.Betsy Carter on The Puzzle King, Jane Alison on Sister Antipodes and A. Manette Ansay on Good Things I Wish You
1:30 p.m.Liz Balmaseda on Sweet Mary and Ana Menendez on The Last War and Leonard Pitts Jr. on Before I Forget
1:30 p.m.Mary Karr on Lit, Jill McCorkle on Going Away Shoes, Jayne Anne Phillips on Lark and Termite and Lydia Davis on The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
1:30 p.m.Reade Scott Whinnem on Pricker Boy, Arthur Slade on The Hunchback Assignments, and Frank McKinney on Dead Fred, Flying Lunchboxes and the Good Luck Circle
1:30 p.m.Senator Bob Graham on America: The Owner’s Manual
2:00 p.m.Archie Married Whom?!!!
2:00 p.m.David Hagberg on Burned, Jonathon King on The Styx and Martha Powers on Conspiracy of Silence
2:00 p.m.Elizabeth Harry on Melanie, Bird with a Broken Wing: A Mother's Story and In Sunshine, Kendel Hippolyte on Night Vision and Birthright and Jane King on Fellow Traveler
2:00 p.m.Geoffrey Philp on Who's Your Daddy, Dylan Landis on Normal People Don't Live Like This and Marc Fitten on Valeria's Last Stand
2:00 p.m.Gwen Ifill on The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama  (Free admission - Ticket required)
2:30 p.m.Robert Arellano on Havana Lunar, Achy Obejas on Ruins and Richard Fleming on Walking to Guantanamo
2:00 p.m.Larry Tye on Satchel Paige
2:30 p.m.Tom Hayden on The Long Sixties: From 1960 to Barack Obama
3:00 p.mAlex Flinn on A Kiss in Time and Beastly and Joyce Sweeney on The Guardian
3:00 p.mAndrew Ross Sorkin on Too Big to Fail and James McManus on Cowboys Full: The Story of Poker
3:00 p.mCampbell McGrath on Shannon: A Poem of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, Marie Ponsot on Easy, Joy Harjo on She Had Some Horses and Tom Healy on What the Right Hand Knows
3:00 p.mOlivia Gentile on Life List, Hope Edelman on The Possibility of Everything, Jo Maeder on When I Married My Mother and Tennessee Reed on Spell Albuquerque: Memoir of a "Difficult" Student
3:00 p.mTracy Kidder on Strength in What Remains  (Free admission - Ticket required)
3:30 p.mDonald Worth and Nina Weber Worth on Art Deco, Arva Moore Parks on Miami and Jeb Brugmann on the Urban Revolution
3:30 p.mJames Reston Jr. on Defenders of the Faith and Michael Goldfarb on Emancipation: How Liberating Europe's Jews from the Ghetto Led to Revolution and Renaissance
3:30 p.mLaurie Sandell on The Impostor’s Daughter, Carol Tyler on You’ll Never Know Book 1: A Good and Decent Man and James Sturm on James Sturm’s America: God, Gold and Golems
3:30 p.mLyah Beth LeFlore on Wildflowers and Trisha Thomas on Nappily in Bloom
3:30 p.mPatricia Gussin on The Test, Diane A.S. Stuckart on Portrait of a Lady, Elaine Viets on Dead-End Job and Sara Williams on One Big Itch
3:30 p.mReed Martin on The Reel Truth and Robert Polito on The Collected Film Writing of Manny Farber
3:30 p.mRonald Goldfarb on When To Protect Secrecy and When to Require Disclosure
4:00 p.m.Wally Lamb on Wishin’ and Hopin’  (Free admission - Ticket required)
4:30 p.m.Bruce Feiler on America's Prophet: Moses and the American Story
4:30 p.m.Danielle Joseph on Shrinking Violet, Gaby Triana on Riding the Universe and Alicia Thompson on The Psych Major Syndrome
4:30 p.m.Jennine Crucet on How to Leave Hialeah, Mia Leonin on Havana and Other Missing Fathers and Cecilia Milanes Rodriguez on Marielitos, Balseros and Other Exiles
4:30 p.m.Joan Biskupic on Biography of Justice Scalia and Barry Friedman on The Will of the People
4:30 p.m.Kati Marton on Enemies of the People: A Family Journey to America, Ariel Sabar on My Father's Paradise and Sadia Shepard on The Girl from Foreign
5:00 p.m.Reclaiming African Culture: Edda Fields-Black, Irene d’Almeida, Dr. Carol Boyce Davies, Dr. Tera Hunter and Dr. Janis A. Mayes
5:00 p.m.Jack E. Davis on Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the American Environmental Century, Abby Sallenger on a Nineteenth-Century Disaster that Warns of a Warmer World and Ian Shive on The National Parks
5:00 p.m.John Hodgman on More Information than You Require and Larry Wilmore on I'd Rather We Got Casinos and Other Black Thoughts  (Free admission - Ticket required)
5:00 p.m.John Tkac, Shawn C. Bean, Deborah Shlian, Joel Shlian, Susan Womble, David Kirby, John Dufresne and Moderator Gloria Colvin
5:00 p.m.Tim Hamilton on Fahrenheit 451, Sid Jacobson on Vlad the Impaler and Che, and R. Sikoryak on Masterpiece Comics
6:30 p.m.Iggy Pop and Robert Matheu on The Stooges: The Authorized and Illustrated Story  (Free admission - Ticket required)

Sunday

10:00 a.m.Ralph Nader on Only the Super Rich Can Save Us  (Free admission - Ticket required)
10:00 a.m.Rosa Sanchez on Nosotras: Opening the Door to Our Love Life
10:30 a.m.Barbara Graham, Roxana Robinson and Molly Giles on Eye on My Heart
10:30 a.m.Edward Falco on Saint John of the Five Boroughs, Masha Hamilton on Thirty One Hours and Fiona Maazel on Last Last Chance: A Novel
10:30 a.m.John Dufresne on Requiem, Mass: A Novel, Dan Choan on Await Your Reply and Padgett Powell on The Interrogative Mood: A Novel?
11:00 a.m.Ann Louise Bardach on Without Fidel: A Death Foretold in Miami, Havana and Washington and Gerald Posner on Miami Babylon
11:00 a.m.Brad Gooch on Flannery, Kenneth Turan on Joseph Papp, Phillip Lopate on Susan Sontag and Francine Prose on Anne Frank
11:00 a.m.David Farley on An Irreverent Curiosity, Daniel Asa Rose on Larry's Kidney and Colin Beavan on No Impact Man
11:00 a.m.Louise Gikow on Sesame Street, A Celebration of 40 Years of Life on the Street and Anita Silvey on Everything I Needed to Know I Learned from a Children's Book
11:00 a.m.Meri-Jane Rochelson on The Career of Israel Zangwill and Aryeh Rubin on Jewish Sages of Today
11:00 a.m.Sherman Alexie on War Dances  (Free admission - Ticket required)
11:00 a.m.Tigertail: A South Florida Poetry Annual with Michael Hettich, Denise Duhamel Campbell McGrath, Hugo Rodriguez
11:00 a.m.Zeida Cecilia-Mendez, Dr. Daniel Lewis and Dr. Kathie Sigler on Fernando Bujones
12:00 p.m.George Packer on Interesting Times: Writings from a Turbulent Decade ,Chris Hedges on Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle and Sam Tanenhaus on The Death of Conservatism  (Free admission - Ticket required)
12:00 p.m.Barbara Hamby on All-Night Lingo Tango, Robert Polito on Hollywood & God, David Kirby on The Temple Gate Called Beautiful and Adrian Castro on Handling Destiny
12:00 p.m.Christopher Kenneally in conversation Bob Garfield, The Chaos Scenario
12:00 p.m.Janis Owens on The Cracker Kitchen and Gwen Cooper on Homer's Odyssey
12:00 p.m.Michael Rosen on Seven Boys and an American Journey, Helen Thorpe on Just Like Us and Po Bronson on NurtureShock: New Thinking on Children
12:00 p.m.Patrick Alexander on Marcel Proust’sSearch for Lost Time and Eric Karpeles on the Paintings in Proust
12:00 p.m.Roxana Robinson on Cost: A Novel, Kate Walbert on A Short History of Women and Sarah Dunant on Sacred Hearts
12:00 p.m.The Art of Harvey Kurtzman 2: The Mad Genius of Comics
12:30 p.m.David Finkel on The Good Soldiers and Doug Stanton on Horse Soldiers
12:30 p.m.Denise Hamilton on Los Angeles Noir, Les Standiford on Miami Noir, S.J. Rozan on Bronx Noir, Denis Lehane on Boston Noir, and Paco Ignacio Taibo II on Mexico City Noir
12:30 p.m.S. L. Wisenberg on The Adventures of Cancer Bitch and Carolyn Rubenstein on True Voices of Cancer Survivors
12:45 p.m.Christopher Kenneally in conversation Tao Lin, Shoplifting from American Apparel
1:00 p.m.David Wolman on Righting the Mother Tongue: From Old English to Email, Roy Blount, Jr. Alphabet Juice, and Thomas Mallon on Yours Ever: People and Their Letters
1:30 p.m.Alan Greer on Choices and Challenges, Lessons in Faith, Hope and Love
1:30 p.m.Brian Fies on Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow? and Neil Kleid on The Great Kahn
1:30 p.m.Elizabeth Berg on Home Safe, Jacquelyn Mitchard on No Time to Wave Goodbye, Lauren Grodstein on A Friend of the Family and Paula Froelich on Mercury Retrograde: A Novel
1:30 p.m.Gabrielle Calvocoressi on Apocalyptic Swing, Helen Wallace on Shimming the Glass House, Kelle Groom on Five Kingdoms and Stacey Lynn Brown on Cradle Song
1:30 p.m.John Freeman on The Tyranny of E-Mail and Hal Niedzviecki on The Peep Diaries
1:30 p.m.Lars Schoulz on That Infernal Little Cuban Republic, Joseph Scarpaci on Cuban Landscapes and John Radanovich on The Life and Music of Benny More
1:30 p.m.Rich Cohen on Israel is Real, Joel Schalit on Israel vs. Utopia, and Dan Senor on Start-up Nation  (Free admission - Ticket required)
2:00 p.m.Edna Buchanan on The Corpse Had a Familiar Face and Legally Dead, Heather Graham on Unhallowed Ground, James Grippando on Born to Run and Intent to Kill and Lisa Black on Evidence of Murder
2:00 p.m.Harold Evans on Paper Chase: A Life On and Off the Page
2:00 p.m.John Hemingway on Strange Tribe and Robert Leleux on Memoirs of a Beautiful Boy
2:00 p.m.Tim Page on Parallel Play and Teresa Becerra on Embracing Autism
2:30 p.m.Dr. Bill Butler on Embracing the World: The University of Miami from Cardboard Collegeto International and Global Acclaim
2:30 p.m.Nicole Chaison on The Passion of the Hausfrau and Marisa Marchetto on Cancer Vixen
2:30 p.m.William Grimes on A Culinary History of New York, Connie Rosenblum on Boulevard of Dreams and Edward Rutherford on New York: The Novel
3:00 p.m.Benjamin Moser on Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector and Gerald Martin on Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Life
3:00 p.m.Jesse Millner on The Neighborhoods of My Past Sorrows, Barbra Nightingale on Geometry of Dreams, Caridad Moro-McCormick on Visionware and Jen Karetnick on Bud Break at Mango House
3:00 p.m.Madison Smartt Bell on A Novel About Nathan Bedford Forrest, John Pipkin on Woodsburner, Frank Delaney on Shannon and Kathleen Kent on The Heretic’s Daughter
3:00 p.m.Norman Podhoretz on Why Are Jews Liberals?  (Free admission - Ticket required)
3:00 p.m.Peter Golenbock on George:The Poor Little Rich Boy Who Built the Yankee Empire, S.L Price on Heart of the Game: Life, Death and Mercy in Minor League America and Jeff Leen on The Queen of the Ring
3:00 p.m.Steve Karras on The Enemy I Knew: German Jews in the Allied Military in World War II, Allen Wells on Tropical Zion, Greg Dawson on Hiding in the Spotlight
3:00 p.m.Summer Hill Seven on Hang Time! and J.J. Colagrande on Headz
3:30 p.m.Carla Harris on Proven Strategies for Success From a Wall Street Vet, Alan Weis on The Business of Changing Lives and Sharon Harvey Rosenberg and Myscha Theriault 10,001 Ways to Live Large on a Small Budget
3:30 p.m.Jonathan Lethem on Chronic City, Ben Greenman on Please Step Back and Michael Thomas on Man Gone Down
3:30 p.m.Josephine Johnson on SS Asteroid
3:30 p.m.Eric Nash on Manga Kamishibai:  The Art of Japanese Paper Theater and Kurt Hassler, Publishing Director, Yen Press
4:00 p.m.Barbara Levenson on Fatal February, Sharon Potts on In Their Blood and Jeffrey Siger on Murder in Mykonos
4:00 p.m.Mary Gordon on Reading Jesus: A Writer's Encounter with the Gospels and David Rosenberg on A Literary Bible
4:00 p.m.Melvin Van Peebles, Confessions of an Ex-doofus-itchyfooted Mutha  (Free admission - Ticket required)
4:30 p.m.Carolina De Robertis on The Invisible Mountain, Leila Cobo on Tell Me Something True and Elizabeth Nunez, Anna In-between
4:30 p.m.Joe Starita on Chief Standing Bear's Journey for Justice and McDougall on A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race
4:30 p.m.Luis Alberto Urrea on Into the Beautiful North: A Novel, Abraham Verghese on Cutting for Stone, and Ethan Canin on America, America: A Novel
4:30 p.m.20 Poems (and a love song) for Miami
4:30 p.m.Poetry on Strings with Pablo Cano and David Plumb
5:00 p.m.Susie Essman on What Would Susie Say? and Andy Borowitz on Who Moved My Soap  (Free admission - Ticket required)
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