By Rachel Galvin
Are you someone who can’t wait until the next book in a series drops, or who spends their nights with their nose in a book, or who follows everything their favorite author says and does? No matter which type of bibliophile you may be, you are sure to love the Miami Book Fair. Now in its 41st year, the fair seems to have more reasons than ever to check it out.
The event is held on the Miami Dade College Wolfson Campus from November 17-24 and 400 authors will be in attendance. All genres will be presented from horror to romance to fantasy, and beyond. There are also authors of children’s books. One of the biggest draws is sure to be horror author Stephen King. But there are plenty of journalists who have written books who will be in attendance, including Connie Chung, and well-known classic authors like Amy Tan and funny guy Dave Barry. The long list of authors from all over is really outstanding this year.
Don’t miss the “Evening With” presentations with some of the most established thinkers of our day like Chung who is having a conversation with her husband Maury Povich; Tan talking about her “The Backyard Bird Chronicles,” Clarissa Ward talking about her experiences in the news industry, and more.
This event is perfect for families. Not only can children go home with handfuls of books, but they can also engage in activities in the Children’s Alley, including making books of their own, doing science experiments, learning about robots, making music and more. There will be performances, storytelling, strolling characters and artists, virtual reality and a FIFA experience too.
Adults will love the nightly cocktail parties at the Lost Chapter lounge and the full food court hosted by Smorgasburg.
Have fun at the street fair from November 22-24!
There is free parking on campus in building 7, a block sized garage, between NE 1st and 2nd Avenues and between NE 5th & 6th Streets.
General admission is $12 for adults, $5 for ages 13-18 and those over 62; free for under 12. There is a free block party the first night with Funkbox NYC, featuring DJs Tony Touch Hector Romero and Tedd Patterson with a live performance by Joi Cardwell.
For more information and to get tickets, visit miamibookfair.com.
Authors include the following:
Nonfiction
* Alice Driver, Life and Death of the American Worker: The Immigrants Taking on America’s Largest Meatpacking Company
* Alice Randall, My Black Country: A Journey Through Country Music’s Black Past, Future and Present
* Carrie Sun, Private Equity: A Memoir
* Daniela Rus, The Mind’s Mirrors: Risk and Reward in the Age of AI
* Ernesto Londono, Trippy: The Peril and Promise of Medicinal Psychedeolics
* Jonathan Vigliotti: Before It’s Gone: Stories from the Front Lines of Climate Change in Small-Town America
* Glory Edim, Gather Me: A Memoir in Praise of the Books That Saved Me
* Jason Stanley, Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past
* Kara Swisher, Burn Book: A Tech Love Story
* Marie Arana, LatinoLand: A Portrait of America’s Largest and Least Understood Minority
* Patrick J. Kennedy, Profiles in Mental Health Courage
* R. Derek Black, The Klan Man’s Son: My Journey from White Nationalism to Antiracism
* Sahaj Kaur Kohli, But What WIll People Say: Navigating Mental Health, Identity, Love, and Family Between Cultures
Pop culture icons
* Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
* Former Poet Laureate Billy Collins, Water, Water: Poems
* Daniel Handler, (as Lemony Snickett) And Then? And Then? What Else?
* Deborah Paredez, American Diva: Extraordinary, Unruly, Fabulous
* Edda L. Fields-Black, Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During
* Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
* Ed Newman, Warrior Judge: One Man’s Journey from the Gridiron to the Gavel
* Julie Satow, When Women Ran Fifth Avenue, Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion
* Kathleen Hanna, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk
* Madeline Blais, Queen of the Court: The Many Lives of Tennis Legend Alice Marble
* Marianne Williamson, The Mystic Jesus: The Mind of Love
* Moon Unit Zappa, Earth To Moon: A Memoir
* Patti Smith, A Book of Days
* Ray Suarez, We Are Home: Becoming American in the 21st Century: An Oral History
* Simon Doonan, The Camp 100: Glorious Flamboyance from Louis XIV to Lil Nas X
* Stacey Abrams, Stacey Speaks Up
* Susan Seidelman, Desperately Seeking Something: A Memoir
* Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Anguish and Anarchy
* Thurston Moore, Sonic Life: A Memoir
* V (Eve Ensler), Reckoning
Florida based icons
* Asha Elias, Pink Glass Houses
* Dave Barry, The Swamp
* Dr. Paul George and Henry Green, Jewish Miami Beach
* Ed Newman, Holly Greenberg Newman Warrior Judge: One Man’s Journey from the Gridiron to the Gavel
* Edwidge Danticat, We’re Alone: Essays
* Fabienne Josaphat, Kingdom of No Tomorrow
* Gene Moreno, Carlos Alfonzo: Late Paintings
* Geoffrey Philip, My Name is Marcus
* Jen Karetnick, Inheritance with a High Error Rate
* Jennine Capo Crucet, Say Hello to My Little Friend
* Jim Grippando, Goodbye Girl- A Jack Swyteck Novel
* Joy Castro, One Brilliant Flame
* Leonard Pitts, 54 Miles* Dr. Paul George, Jewish Miami Beach
* Lisandro Perez, The House on G Street: A Cuban Family Saga
* Oscar Fuentes, Relics of the Heart: Stories of My Family
* First Miami Dade Poet Laureate Richard Blanco, Latino Poetry: The Library of America Anthology
* Rochelle Weinstein, What You Do To Me
Fiction
* Alice McDermott, Absolution
* Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
* Lisa See, Lady Tan’s Circle of Women
* Jamie Quatro, Two-Step Devil
* Jayne Allen, The Most Wonderful Time
* Jean Hanff Korelitz, The Sequel
* Jill McCorkle, Old Crimes: and Other Stories
* Julia Phillips, Bear
* Louis Bayard, The Wildes: A Novel in 5 Acts
* Margot Livesey, The Road from Belhaven
* Marie-Helene Bertino, Beautyland
* Mona Simpson, Commitment
* Myriam Chancy, Village Weavers
* Nicola Yoon, One of Our Kind
* Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
* Tracy Clark, Echo, featuring detective Harriet Foster