ON FAME & FRIENDSHIP: A POETRY READING & CONVERSATION WITH RICHARD BLANCO & CAMPBELL MCGRATH
Join us for a special conversation with Miami-Dade County Poet Laureate RICHARD BLANCO and his friend, mentor, and MacArthur “Genius” Fellow CAMPBELL MCGRATH. In Homeland
EXTRAORDINARY LIVES
PABLO BRESCIA’s Diego Maradona: A Socio-Cultural Study tells the story of one of the greatest soccer players in history, who also became a culturally constructed
DYNASTIC INFLUENCES
JOSEPH SASSOON’s The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire is a saga of the making – and undoing – of
EMERGING FROM STRIFE: STORIES OF DOMESTIC & POLITICAL UPHEAVAL
MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM’s Day: A Novel tracks the lives of a Brooklyn, New York, family as they endure the pandemic lockdown and their veneer of domestic
UNCOVERED TRUTHS & MANIPULATED WORLDS
In TANANARIVE DUE‘s work of historical fiction, The Reformatory: A Novel, 12-year-old Robbie Stephens Jr. is sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for
DYSTOPIAS & FALSE PROMISES
In the dystopian Chain-Gang All-Stars: A Novel, NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH offers a clear-eyed look at the American prison system’s unholy alliance of systemic racism, unchecked
RECKONINGS & RECRIMINATIONS
Pineapple Street: A Novel, JENNIFER JACKSON‘s debut, follows three women in a one-percenter clan, offering glimpses of their indulgent pleasures, the miles between the haves
THREE AUTHORS ON FRACTURED FAMILIES
ALLEGRA GOODMAN’s Sam: A Novel is the story of a 7-year-old with a nearly absent father and a mother struggling to make ends meet. But
ROSS GAY ON THE BOOK OF (MORE) DELIGHTS
ROSS GAY‘s new collection of genre-defying essays, The Book of (More) Delights: Essays, continues his ongoing investigation of joy. For Gay, what makes us happy
JAMES MCBRIDE ON THE HEAVEN & EARTH GROCERY STORE
In JAMES MCBRIDE’s The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store: A Novel, workers digging a foundation find a skeleton at the bottom of a well in
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI ON MURTAGH: THE WORLD OF ERAGON
Master storyteller CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI returns to the World of Eragon with Murtagh, a stunning epic fantasy set a year after the events of the Inheritance
LAURA DROSDOWECH ON MAGICAL MIAMI – PICTURE BOOK
In LAURA DROSDOWECH’s Magical Miami, Zoe and Zen’s awesome adventure begins in Wynwood and takes them through Miami’s most notable neighborhoods. They meet a flamingo