Miami, Nov. 5, 2021 – Miami Dade College’s (MDC) Miami Book Fair, Nov. 14 – 21, will host both in-person and virtual events with award-winning writers and other figures at the forefront of the national zeitgeist. This year’s Evenings With program and special author events include presidential biographer Jean Becker with former Florida Governor Jeb Bush; acclaimed debut writers Dantiel W. Moniz and Deesha Philyaw; former U.S. poet laureate Rita Dove; thriller writer Lee Child; novelist Sandra Cisneros; and bestselling novelist Amor Towles, among others. WLRN is once again the Presenting Media Sponsor of most Evenings With programs.
Complete list of Evenings With and special author events:
An Evening with Amor Towles on The Lincoln Highway: A Novel
Sunday, Nov. 14, 7- 8p.m. | Chapman (Bldg. 3, Second Floor) Tickets $35 plus tax and fee (includes book)
Program will be available on livestream at miamibookfaironline.com.
An Evening with Lee Child, Andrew Child and Harlan Coben on Better Off Dead: A Jack Reacher Novel
Monday, Nov. 15, 6-7p.m. | Livestreamed Via Zoom Tickets $28.99 plus tax and fee (includes book)
Program will be available on demand after the livestream.
An Evening with Jean Becker on The Man I Knew: The Amazing Story of George H. W. Bush’s Post Presidency, in conversation with former Florida Governor Jeb Bush
Monday, Nov. 15, 7-8 p.m. | Auditorium (Bldg. 1, Second Floor) – Tickets $20
Program will be available on livestream at miamibookfaironline.com.
An Evening with Sarah Schulman on Let the Record Show: A Political History of Act Up New York, 1987-1993, in conversation with her editor at Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Jackson Howard
Monday, Nov. 15, 8-9 p.m. | Chapman (Bldg. 3, Second Floor) – Tickets $20
Program will be available on livestream at miamibookfaironline.com.
An Evening with Andy Cohen on Glitter Every Day: 365 Quotes from Women I Love.
Tuesday, Nov. 16, 6-7 p.m. | Livestreamed Via Zoom Tickets $24 plus tax and fee (includes book)
Program will be available on livestream at miamibookfaironline.com.
An Evening with Patricia Engel on Infinite Country: A Novel, in conversation with author and editor Anjanette Delgado, Home in Florida: Latinx Writers and the Literature of Uprootedness.
Tuesday, Nov. 16, 7-8p.m. | Doral Yard, 8455 NW 53rd St., Suite 106, Doral, FREE but ticket required
An Evening with Sebastian Junger on Freedom
Tuesday, Nov. 16, 8-9 p.m. | Chapman (Bldg. 3, Second Floor) – Tickets $20
Program will be available on livestream at miamibookfaironline.com.
An Evening with Sandra Cisneros on Martita, I Remember You/Martita, te recuerdo, in conversation with friend and fellow author Jan Beatty
Wednesday, Nov. 17, 8-9 p.m. | Bldg. 1, Fourth Floor Terrace, Tickets $20
Program will be available on livestream at miamibookfaironline.com.
An Evening with Mark Oppenheimer on Squirrel Hill: The Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting and the Soul of a Neighborhood
Thursday, Nov. 18, 6-7 p.m. | Chapman (Bldg. 3, Second Floor) Tickets $20
Program will be available on livestream at miamibookfaironline.com.
An Evening with Rita Dove on Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems, in conversation with friend and fellow poet Campbell McGrath
Thursday, Nov. 18, 8-9 p.m. | Chapman (Bldg. 3, Second Floor) Tickets $20
Program will be available on livestream at miamibookfaironline.com.
An Evening with Dantiel W. Moniz on Milk Blood Heat: Stories and Deesha Philyaw on The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
Friday, Nov. 19, 6-7 p.m. | Chapman (Bldg. 3, Second Floor) Tickets $20
Program will be available on livestream at miamibookfaironline.com.
Most Evenings With author events require a ticket. Visit www.miamibookfair.com to purchase or reserve tickets.
For Miami Book Fair information, visit www.miamibookfair.com and/or miamibookfaironline.com and/or download a PDF of the guide https://www.miamibookfair.com/downloadable-guide/ or call 305-237-3528 or email wbookfair@mdc.edu.
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About Miami Book Fair
Founded in 1984 by Miami Dade College and partners, Miami Book Fair engages the community through inclusive, accessible programs that promote reading and support writers year-round. The annual eight-day festival has grown into the largest and most comprehensive community-rooted literary gathering in the United States generating discourse on contemporary literature and current issues of international importance. Throughout the rest of the year, Miami Book Fair responds hosts an ongoing schedule of activities, including The Little Haiti Book Festival; creative writing and publishing workshops; author presentations; reading campaigns; and Read to Learn Books for Free, a partnership with The Children’s Trust that distributes more than 150,000 free books a year to children in Miami-Dade County. Miami Book Fair programming is made possible through generous support from the State of Florida and the National Endowment for the Arts; City of Miami; Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council; Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners; Miami-Dade County Public Schools; Greater Miami Convention and Visitors Bureau; Miami Downtown Development Authority; and Friends of the Fair; as well as many corporate partners. Miami Book Fair: Building community, one reader at a time.
Miami Book Fair contact: Lisa Palley, 305-642-3132 lpalley@bellsouth.net