Miami Book Fair What to do, see, and read 2017

LIDIA BASTIANICH CELEBRATES LIKE AN ITALIAN

CLAIRE MESSUD BURNS UP ADOLESCENCE
MARIKO TAMAKI CONJURES UNICORNS
TILLIE WALDEN SPINS THROUGH HER LIFE
AL FRANKEN IS A GIANT
LIVE from the
MIAMI
BOOK FAIR
November 18 19

Featuring nonfiction books

and authors all weekend.

Visit the C-SPAN Bus outside

Chapman Hall
to learn more about Book TV.

@BookTV booktv
 HIGHLIGHTS
Enchanted Evenings and Other Dont-Miss Events
Once again, the Miami Book Fair offers a week of rare opportunities to see
and hear some of todays biggest writers and influencers. Here are PWs
top picks. Please note: some of these events require tickets. All events are at
300 NE Second Ave.
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 12
6 PM
Special Event: A Conver-
sation with Dan Rather
Building 3, 2nd floor, Chapman
Conference Center Conference
Center, tickets: $15. The 35th
annual Miami Book Fair storms
out of the gate with one of the
worlds best-known journalists,
Dan Rather, who kicks off the
week of An Evening with
programs. The former CBS
anchor and managing editor
will discuss his newest book,
What Unites Us: Reflections
on Patriotism.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 13
6 PM
An Evening with
Lawrence ODonnell
Building 3, 2nd floor, Chapman
Conference Center, tickets:
$15. (See p. 28 for an interview
with ODonnell.)
Dan Rather Ben-Baker
Night Thoughts. The Obie
Awardwinning playwright and
noted stage and screen actor
ruminates on essential issues
in our world, including civiliza-
tion, morality, Beethoven,
blame, revenge, decadence,
11th-century Japanese court
poetry, and his hopes for a
better world.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15
6 PM
Patti Smith Steven Sebring An Evening with
Isabel Allende
Building 3, 2nd floor, Chap-
8 PM
man Conference Center. Dont
An Evening with
miss the chance to hear Isabel
Patti Smith
Allendenovelist, feminist, and
Building 3, 2nd floor, Chapman
philanthropist, and one of the
Conference Center, tickets: $15.
most widely read authors in the
Show your devotion to the
worldspeak about her just-
acclaimed musician, poet,
published novel, In the Midst of
visual artist, and author of the
Winter. Allende pens a story of
National Book Awardwinning
love and endurance that brings
Just Kids, when she presents
together three very different
her newest work, Devotion
people, in a tale set in present-
(Why I Write), a groundbreak-
day Brooklyn, Guatemala of the
ing book from Yale University
recent past, and 1970s Chile
Press in which she chronicles
and Brazil. In the Washington
her own creative process.
Post, Jonathan Yardley wrote,
In the Midst of Winter will stay
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14
with you long after you turn the
6 PM
final page.
An Evening with Kwame
Alexander, in Conver-
sation with Edwidge
Danticat
Building 3, 2nd floor, Chapman
Conference Center, tickets: $15.
(See p. 13 and 18 for
interviews with Danticat and
Alexander, respectively.)
8 PM
An Evening with
Wallace Shawn
Building 3, 2nd floor, Chapman
Conference Center, tickets: $15.
Join Shawn as he discusses
his newest collection of essays,
MIAMI BOOK FAIR | NOVEMBER 2017 1
 WHATS INSIDE HIGHLIGHTS
1 Enchanted Evenings and Other Dont-Miss Events
6 Al Franken on Going from SNL to the Senate
8 Claire Messud on Burning Through Adolescence
10 Two Master Chefs, Lidia Bastianich and Jim Lahey
Stir It Up
13 Edwidge Danticat Talks About a Complicated Grief
16 Khizr Khan Celebrates America with Children in Mind
17 Mariko Tamaki Gives New Life to the Lumberjanes
Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Pierce Bush Nathan R. Congleton
18 Kwame Alexander Is in Love with Music and Ghana
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16
6 PM
An Evening with
Barbara Pierce Bush
and Jenna Bush Hager
Building 3, 2nd floor, Chap-
man Conference Center. Feel
the sisterly love with Barbara
and Jenna as they share tales
from Sisters First: Stories from
Our Wild and Wonderful Life.
Twelve years apart, the daugh-
10 18
ters and granddaughters of two
presidents take readers on a
revealing and deeply thoughtful
tour of their lives.
20 Trina Robbins, Robert Sikoryak, and Nate Powell
Get Graphix
22 Tillie Walden Spins Through Her Life
23 Molly Ostertag Bewitches with Witchcraft
24 Authors Presenting in Spanish
Armistead Maupin
Christopher Turner
28 Journalist Lawrence ODonnell on the Drama of 1968
8 PM
An Evening with
James McBride
Building 3, 2nd floor, Chap-
man Conference Center. After
snagging a 2013 National Book
Editorial Director Jim Milliot, Publisher Joe Murray, Editor Liz Hartman,
Award for The Good Lord Bird,
Managing Editor Daniel Berchenko, Copy Editor Ivan Anderson, the story of a slave joining John
Contributing Writers Alia Akkam, Jason Boog, Hilary Crist, Sally Lodge,
Beth Levine, Lela Nargi, Production Manager Michele Piscitelli,
Browns abolitionist movement,
Published by Publishers Weekly. James McBride unveils his first
2 PUBLISHERSWEEKLY.COM
short story collection, Five-Carat
Soul. The Brooklyn-bred author
and highly accomplished jazz
saxophonist and music writer
takes time from all of his artistic
endeavors to share insights into
his new book.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17
7 PM
An Evening with the
National Book Award
Winners and Finalists
Building 3, 2nd floor, Chapman
Conference Center. Just two
days after the National Book
Foundations Awards ceremony
in New York, the winners and
finalists will travel to Miami for
this remarkable gathering of
literary talent.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18
11:30 AM
Armistead Maupin
Building 1, 2nd floor,
Auditorium. Mary Karr calls
Logical Family, Armistead
Maupins long-awaited memoir,
a must-read. The author of
the much-adored Tales of the
City series pens his journey
from the old South to laid-back
San Francisco in the 1970s, as
he became an acclaimed writer
and gay-rights pioneer. He
chronicles his quest to find his
logical family, those beyond
 "GRETCHEN CARLSON I S A F I GHTER THROUGH AND THROUGH
AND SHE IS USING HER VOI CE TO PUT HERS ELF ON THE RI GHT
SIDE OF HI S TORY ON THI S I S S UE. "

J O I N T H E C O N V E R S A T I O N

IN HARDCOVER, EBOOK, LARGE PRINT,

AND AUDIO WHEREVER BOOKS ARE SOLD

Uncover your next obsession
Enter to win these books at
fiercereads.com/MiamiSweeps
Follow @FierceReads for more!
4 PUBLISHERSWEEKLY.COM
mi Book Fair Fierce Reads Ad.indd 1
HIGHLIGHTS
ones biological family, who
actually make sense for us,
he writes.
12:30 PM
Family and Relation-
ships: Memoirs
Building 8, 3rd floor, Room
8302. Joyce Maynard
discusses her new memoir,
The Best of Us, with another
memoirist, Madeleine Blais,
author of To the New Owners:
A Marthas Vineyard Memoir. At
the age of 59, Joyce Maynard
met the first true partner she
had ever known: Jim Barringer,
whom she married on a New
Hampshire hillside. Just after
their one-year anniversary,
Barringer was diagnosed with
pancreatic cancer. Nineteen
10/5/17 2:32 PM
months later, he died. The Best
of Us: A Memoir is their story.
Blais recollects summers spent
at her in-laws bucolic cottage
on the Vineyard.
3 PM
Salman Rushdie on
The Golden House
Building 3, 2nd floor, Chapman
Conference Center. Rushdies
just-published novel, The
Golden House, has won instant
high praisethe Associated
Press calls it a modern mas-
terpiece; in a starred review
PW says it is ambitious and
rewarding... a distinctively rich
epic of the immigrant experi-
ence in modern America; and
in its starred review, Kirkus
calls it a sort of Great Gatsby
for our time. Join the Booker
Prize winner of Midnights
Children, who was knighted in
2007 for services to literature,
as he discusses his 13th novel.
7 PM
Joe Biden on Promise
Me, Dad: A Year of Hope,
Hardship, and Purpose
Adrienne Arsht Center for
the Performing Arts, 1300
Biscayne Blvd.
Lucky for Miamians, former
vice president Joe Biden has
included the fair on his nation-
Salman Rushdie Randall Slavin
wide American Promise Tour,
a series of a series of conver-
sations that will go beyond
the 24-hour news cycle and
140-character arguments to
connect friends and neighbors
Great graphic novels for every reader
on the topics that matter most.
Tickets to his appearance
include a copy of his forthcom-
ing memoir, Promise Me, Dad,
which chronicles 2015, the
momentous and challenging

Jennifer Egan Pieter M. Van Hattem

year when he balanced the strike twice; just out, the book
twin imperatives of living up to is winning raves.
his responsibilities to his coun-
2 PM
try while helping his son Beau,
Jeffrey Eugenides on
who was battling brain cancer
First His Story Collec-
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19 tion, Fresh Complaint
Building 1, 2nd floor, Audito-
10:30 AM
rium. Pulitzer Prizewinner
Jennifer Egan on
Jeffrey Eugenides has been
Manhattan Beach
writing short stories for a long
Building 1, 2nd floor, Audito-
time, but it was just a few
rium. According to Egan, until
weeks ago that his first col-
A Visit from the Goon Squad
lection, Fresh Complaint was
won the National Book Critics
published. The reason for the
Circle Award and the Pulitzer
delay? Simple: I finally had
Prize in 2010, it had done so
enough stories to comprise
poorly. So grateful for her
stroke of good luck, she en-
a book. Included here is
Enter to win these books at
Air Mail, selected by Annie
trenched herself in promoting it
Proulx for Best American Short firstsecondbooks.com/MiamiSweeps
on the international stageand
Stories 1997, and other stories
so years ticked by without a
that present characters in the
Follow for more!
new book. But this year readers
midst of personal and national
are rejoicing in Manhattan
emergencies.
Beach, her first historical novel.
It seems that lightening does

MIAMI BOOK FAIR | NOVEMBER 2017 5

Miami Book Fair First Second Ad.indd 1 10/5/17 2:33 P
 From SNL
to the Senate

In his latest book, Al Franken: Giant of the Senate, the politician and comedian
answers two burning questions: Is being a senator as much fun as working on
Saturday Night Live? and How did you transition from comedian to senator?
Second-term Minnesota senator Al Franken has it all figured out.

Owen Franken

A
fter his usual busy
state tour during
the August recess
of 2015, he and his wife
planned a five-day vacation
at a Minnesota lodge prior
to joining a congressional
delegation on a grueling
trip to Africa. We were
going to Senegal, Ethiopia,
Rwanda, Gabon, and then
to Capo Verde on the way
backall in six days, he
says. But then his wife fell ill
and decided she needed to
shore up her energy for the
overseas trip, suggesting he
go to the cabin alone.
I had nothing to do for
five days. I had my laptop
and went into the cabin.
I felt that it was either
going to be The Shining or
it would turn out okay.
Ive been threatening to
write about how I became a
senator, and I had nothing
to do for five days. I had my
laptop and went into the
cabin. I felt that it was either
going to be The Shining or it
would turn out okay.
It turned out more than
just okay. Al Franken: Giant
of the Senate debuted at #1
on the New York Times best-
seller list and hasnt fallen
past fourth place since.
He decided the book
would be a great way to
answer questions that often
come his way. Im always
asked, Is being a senator
as much fun as working on
Saturday Night Live? he
explains. And the answer
is, No, why should it be?
But its the best job Ive
ever had. And then the
next question I get asked
is, How did you transition
from being a comedian to
being a senator, and whats
that like? That seemed like a
pretty natural thing to write
aboutmy first campaign
and how I got into it.
It meant a lot for Fran-
ken to run for the seat previ-
ously occupied by Senator
Paul Wellstonea man much
admired by the Franken
familywho set an example
of someone who worked
hard for his constituents.
When asked what he
hopes people take away
from his book, Franken
responds, There are a lot of
challenges to be a senator,
especially at this time. But
the goal isand I cite Well-
stoneto improve peoples
lives. Thats why Im there,
and thats what I try to do.
I want people to take away
that its still a noble profes-
sion, even if some people in
it are ignoble.
Hilary Crist
Closing Event: Al Franken
Sunday, November 19
6:307:30 p.m.
Chapman Conference Center
(Building 3, 2nd floor), 300 NE
Second Ave.
Escape the Ordinary
A YOUNG HERO
WILL RISE
. . . entertaining tale
combining the feel of
Arthurian legend with
niiy far-future super
science . . .
Publishers Weekly
978-1-4814-8276-9
$25.00 US/$34.00 CAN
On Sale November 7
THE COMPLETE
SHORTER WORKS
Powerss strengths
[are] his orginality,
his-accon-crammed
plots, and his
ventures into the
mysterious, dark, and
supernatural.
Los Angeles Times
Book Review
978-1-4814-8279-0
$25.00 US/$34.00 CAN
On Sale November 7
NEW ENTRY IN
THE RING OF
FIRE SERIES
. . . reads like a
techno-thriller set
in the age of the
Medicis . . .
Publishers Weekly
978-1-4814-8277-6
$25.00 US/$34.00 CAN
On Sale December 5
For free sample chapters, and more,
visit www.baen.com
Distributed by Simon & Schuster
MIAMI BOOK FAIR | NOVEMBER 2017 7
 The Complexities of ize and had been want-
ing to try to write about,

Adolescent Friendship
even when I was working
on The Emperors Children
all those years ago. I had
moved away, and friends
Claire Messud, the author of the acclaimed The Emperors Children, wrote letters to me about
something that happened
talks about the roots of her newest novel, The Burning Girl, a bracing, to another friend. I never
knew the whole story, only
hypnotic coming-of-age story about the bond of best friends pieces, and that experience
haunted me my whole life.

D
uring a career
spanning more
than two decades,
Claire Messud has special-
ized in creating complex,
fierce female characters. In
her newest novel, she looks
back to the fraught years
of adolescence and weaves
a tale that is both a fable
and coming-of age story.
Julia and Cassie have been
friends since nursery school.
They have shared every-
thing, including their desire
to escape the stifling limita-
tions of their birthplace,
the quiet town of Royston,
Massachusetts. But as the
two girls enter adolescence,
their paths diverge and
Cassie sets out on a journey
that will put her life in dan-
ger and shatter her oldest
friendship.
What was the catalyst for
The Burning Girl?
Watching my kids go
through the adolescent
years brings back my own
adolescent years very viv-
idlysometimes too vividly.
Ive been so immersed in
that time of life, although
from a different perspective
than when I lived through
it myself, that it seemed
urgent to write about it.
There was also an experi-
ence from my own youth
that I wanted to fictional-
When you lose touch with
someone, you have to invent
something of the story that
has befallen them.
You have a son and a
daughter; have you
noticed that the way each
has experienced friend-
ship has been different?
My daughter is in the 11th
grade, and my son is in the
eighth grade, and yes, a lot
of our sons friendships

e n t h e h e a r tt g
g e ettss lloosst ,
t ,
Whhen the hear
W
s i c
lleett tthhee music find y .
m u f i n d y o u
o u.
Meet Kwame Alexander at the Miami Book Fest
Meet Tuesday,
Kwame Alexander
Novemberat the
14Miami
at 6pmBook Fest
in Tuesday, November
conversation 14 Danticat
with Edwidge at 6pm
in conversation with Edwidge Danticat
Miami Dade College
Miami(Bldg.
Chapman Dade3,College
2nd Floor)
Chapman (Bldg. 3, 2nd Floor)
9780310761839 | $17.99 | Hard Cover BlinkYABooks.com
9780310761839 | $17.99 | Hard Cover BlinkYABooks.com
Many readers will identify with Blades struggle to find his A contemporary heros journey, brilliantly told.
Manyplace in a will
readers family wherewith
identify he feels likestruggle
Blades an outsider.
to find his Kirkus Reviews,
A contemporary starred review
heros journey, brilliantly told.
place in a family Publishers
where he Weekly
feels like an outsider. Kirkus Reviews, starred review
Publishers Weekly

involve doing things.
Whereas our daughters
friendships involve talking.
That starts right from the
beginning; in kindergarten,
the boys were building
trains, the girls were sitting
around the table drawing
and talking and fighting and
establishing hierarchies.
What I would say about
M E E T O U R A U T H O R S AT T H E M I A M I B O O K FA I R
Ulf Andersen
girls and womens friend-
ships is that old line: you
cant hate someone if you
dont care. Girls do have
a gift for intimacy, and its
part of the Sturm und Drang
of the adolescent years that
girls friendships are often
so passionate in that time.
They talk to each other,
they talk about each other,
G R O V E AT L A N T I C
g r oveatlantic.com
and it is the time of life in
which their adult personali-
ties are shaped.
What were the challenges
in putting this story
together?
What was hard was that I
wanted this to be in the first
person. I wanted my nar-
rator, Julia, to be 17 at the
time she tells story, when
she is outside the events
but still fairly close to them.
So, I kept having to make
decisions to tighten the
focus and keep the narrative
voice, using as much leeway
as I could to give her a clar-
ity and articulateness that is
literary, but still stays within
what she would know and
experience at that age. The
capacity of the long com-
pound complex sentence is
a delight for me, so it was
like going on diet.
How do you feel about
bringing this latest work
into the world?
Its always a slightly trepida-
tious but exciting moment.
It is like having baby; sud-
denly its outside you and
has to make its way in the
world. When I was younger,
I probably wanted people
to say nice things about
my books. At this point, if
people hate it, thats fine. I
just hope for it to be a way
into their discussions.
Lela Nargi
Claire Messud in Conversation
with Jill Bialosky
Saturday November 18,
34 p.m.
Auditorium (Building 1, 2nd
floor), 300 NE Second Ave.
BETHANY BALL
MADELEINE BLAIS
MARK BOWDEN
PATRICIA ENGEL
JOHN FREEMAN
CHARMAINE CRAIG
CREE LeFAVOUR
EDWARD LUCE
BRADFORD MORROW
EILEEN MYLES
LAURA LEE SMITH
 Chef, restaurateur, and cookbook author
Lidia Bastianich shares secrets from her new cookbook

Celebrating the
Italian Way
10 PUBLISHERSWEEKLY.COM Steve Giralt
W Pizza Bianca,
hen hosting parties, many
people get heart palpita-
tions over making sure
everything is just right. But help is
here: Lidia Bastianich has a new cook-
book coming out, and she took a few
moments to speak with PW to explain
the key to celebrating well: keep it
fresh, keep it simple. Miami Book Fair
attendees can also learn at her knee
when she visits the Kitchen Stadium,
to talk about her latest cookbook,
named (appropriately enough) Lidias
Celebrate Like an Italian: 220 Foolproof
Recipes That Make Every Meal a Party,
written with her daughter, Tanya
Bastianich Manuali.
Steve Giralt
Its in the nature of Italians to live
life with a positive tone and to
celebrate the invitations that come
along in life. Italian food is so
conducive to all of that.
This book is all about celebrating
with food. Why do you think Ital-
ians do that so well?
Its in the nature of Italians to live life
with a positive tone and to celebrate the
invitations that come along in life. Ital-
ian food is so conducive to all of that.
Whats the key to a good party?
Match the right food to the right
occasion. Think about what you
are celebrating. If you are honoring
people, what are their favorite foods?
If it is a holiday, what is the food for
it? When you give an identity to the
party, people appreciate that.
How do you keep from getting
stressed out?
Simplicity in preparation is the Italian
way. Make easy dishes, and then you
can elaborate the final preparation by
decorating with vegetables or herbs,
or adding a dash of olive oil. Pump up
the magnitude by adding truffle oil at
the end. For example, you can make
a simple risotto with onions, and then
shave on truffles. The deliciousness
of the aroma of the truffles heightens
the anticipation. There is a build to it,
such as when you listen to a sympho-
ny: there is a crescendo, and then the
whole orchestra comes in.
Im sure many people are envious
of the way you work with your
children. Most families wouldnt
survive! What advice do you have
for family harmony when you are
in business together?
Its important to let children fly on
their own. I understood that they
needed to create their own life and
not be my shadow. Let them make
their own decisions, and support them
along the way. I was honored when
my children came back. I would not
have grown as fast as I did had I not
listened to their ideas.
Beth Levine
Cooking Abbondanza!
Sunday, November 19, 12 p.m.
Kitchen Stadium, 300 NE Second Ave.
Pasta Frolla, and
Bread, Oh My!
Tips from Jim Lahey, owner
of the famed Sullivan Street
Bakeryaka the church
of bread
Founded in 1994, Sullivan Street
Bakery is renowned for its dark, crusty
loaves that Jim Lahey discovered in
Rome. He is the first to win a James
Beard Award for outstanding baker for
that scrumptious and easy concoc-
tion that prompted food writer Ruth
Reichl to call the bakery a church of
bread. Now Miamians need not just
take her word for itthey can visit
the new outpost of the celebrated
bakery here in Miami at 5550 NE 4th
Avenue. Or they can get a taste of the
bakery on Saturday when Lahey hosts
a demo and tasting in the kitchens
outdoor cooking stage.
Lahey is following up the popular
cookbook My Bread: The Revolution-
ary No-Work, No-Knead Method with
The Sullivan Street Bakery Cookbook.
Coauthored with Maya Joseph, the
new book is a clear, illustrated guide
to making sourdough and apply-
ing this Italian-inspired method to
his repertoire of pizzas, pastries, egg
dishes, and caf classics. Lahey shares
recipes of fan favorites that the bakery
has been serving up over the 23 years
since it opened. I hope to show that
baking is a very personalized experi-
ence. There isnt one formula. All
roads lead to Rome, Lahey says.
Here, he responds to some press-
ing questions from a few of his most
ardent fans.
I just moved to Arizona. Do fac-
tors like water and altitude affect
sourdough starter? tom b.
You can make sourdough anywhere in
the world, but its about temperature
and time. In tropics, keep the starter
somewhere where it is cool, to keep
its flora and pH in balance. In an
MIAMI BOOK FAIR | NOVEMBER 2017 11
 NEW BOOK FROM
Linda
Gassenheimer
and the
American Diabetes
Association
Stop by and visit Linda!
Saturday,
November 18th, 5 pm
Kitchen Stadium
(corner NE 2nd Ave and 3rd Street)
MORE TITLES FROM LINDA:
Delicious One-Pot Dishes
Simply Smoothies
No-Fuss Diabetes Desserts
and more!
12 PUBLISHERSWEEKLY.COM
ADA Miami Book Fair Third Page Ad.indd 1
Arizona summer, dont start the
starter unless your house is consistent-
ly below 68 degrees. Think of a wine
cellar. That is the ideal temperature.
What is your maintenance routine
like for your starter dough? ted k.
You can create a starter or buy one
onlinewe may start to sell ours
online. Make sure it stays very thick
because it slows down the fermenta-
tion. Once it has started and gone
through fermentation and gets acidic,
you can refrigerate it for months. If
it is acidic enough, the acidity will
prevent other bacteria from forming.
To refresh, take a small portion of the
initial starter, reconstitute it, and start
all over again.
Have you tried gluten-free. Would
your recipes adapt for it? gail y.
The point of gluten-free is no fermen-
tation, so its kind of pointless.
10/12/17 1:13 PM
Squire Fox
Will no-knead bread work in a
tagine if there is a hole at the top?
beth l.
Cover the hole with a little piece of
dough, wad of aluminum, or inverted
ramekin.
Do you watch The Great British
Bake Off? sara jean d.
Ive never seen it, but I met the judge,
Paul Hollywood, when he came to
New York City for a different show.
He was a lot of fun. He is very cool.
No question. Just tell him that I
love him. jeff l.
Aw.
Beth Levine
The Sullivan Street Bakery: A Demo
Saturday, November 18, 11 a.m.12 p.m.
Kitchen Stadium, 300 NE Second Ave.
Peaks and Valleys
Acclaimed writer Edwidge Danticat presents her memoir

It is a complicated grief, others, such as C.S. Lewiss

Edwidge Danticat, the
multiple awardwinning
author of fiction and nonfic-
tion, says of the passing of
her mother in 2014 due to
ovarian cancer. We had
a complex story, because
we spent a lot of our lives
apart. When she was only
four, her mother moved
from Haiti to the United
States to be with Danticats
father, who had moved
earlier. Danticat stayed
back in Haiti with an aunt
and uncle. She didnt move
to Brooklyn to rejoin her
A Grief Observed. I have
fellowship with these peo-
ple. When I couldnt speak
to people, because grief is
often lonely, I would go to
these books and know I
was with people who knew
exactly what I was going
through, she says.
Then she started writing,
to explore death in all it
permutations. The result is
The Art of Death: Writing the
Final Story, published this
past summer. In a sense, she
has always had a fascina-
tion with the topic, she says.

In a fast-paced society,
people really want you to
get past this. But grief is Lynn Savarese

peaks and valleys.

parents until she was 12.
After her mothers
death, Danticat found that
many people dont under-
stand grief, thinking of it as
something to get over. In
a fast-paced society, people
really want you to get past
this. But grief is peaks and
valleys, she says. And she
found that we, as a society,
are sorely lacking in the lan-
guage and rituals of death.
People dont know what to
do or say, she adds. And
for the record, please dont
ever say, Heaven must have
needed an angel. Just dont.
Her ongoing process of
grieving led her back to the
page, where she initially
found solace in the works of
My uncle was a minister
and presided over a lot of
funerals. We were expected
to be there out of respect.
I would sit through a lot of
funerals as a little girl, con-
templating what it means.
The Art of Death looks
at how other authors, such
as Toni Morrison and
Gabriel Garca Mrquez,
write about the final bow.
Those two especially have
so many layers to their
work. It is so nuanced, and
you are not protected from
the topic. You understand
the singularity, individuality
of death. How deaths are
mirrored by the way you
live, and what death means
to communities. They deal
with it in such a powerful book: Live now, live well,
way, it gets us a little closer and make the best of that.
to understanding what it is My mother had that insight
and what we would like it too at the end. Before you
to be, Danticat says. are facing this, you are of
Danticat discovered that this moment, and live the
by writing about death, she best life you can.
learned how to live, which
Beth Levine
is what she hopes readers
will take away from her
From Pain to Prose: Writing Hard Stories
Authors Melanie Brooks, Dani Shapiro, and Richard Blanco join
Danticat to discuss writing memoirs. Sunday, November 19, 11 a.m.
12 p.m. Room 3314 (Building 3, 3rd floor), 300 NE Second Ave.
Edwidge Dtanicat Presents: The Art of Death
Danticat presents her memoir. Sunday, November 19, 12 p.m.
Auditorium (Building 1, 2nd floor), 300 NE Second Ave.
See fair guide for additional appearances of Danticat.

MIAMI BOOK FAIR | NOVEMBER 2017 13

 AFTER

MIAMI BOOK FAIR

ATTENDEES RECEIVE
35% OFF*
(PRINT BOOK ONLY)
WITH PROMO CODE:
FLBOOKFEST
Visit www.triumphbooks.com/
Irma
*Offer valid from
11/10 11/24/2017

HURRICANE IRMA FORGED A PATH OF DESTRUCTION

ACROSS THE GREAT STATE OF FLORIDA AND THE CARIBBEAN.
Yet amidst catastrophe, Floridians displayed bravery, humanity, and the
will to survive that rallied the nation. This historic event and the heroism
it inspired is captured in Irma: A Story of Devastation, Courage, and
Recovery, which features gripping stories from the Editors Choice and
dozens of full-color images.

8 11 128 pages Paperback

$15.95 (CAN. $20.95) ISBN 978-1-62937-587-8

A PORTION OF THE PROCEEDS FROM THE SAL

 IRMA
PARTNERS in RELIEF
Join our partnership.
Triumph Books is proud to partner
with Baker & Taylor, who will donate
all net proceeds from copies sold to
the Salvation Army.
Libraries and schools around the
country can join the relief effort by
ordering copies through Baker & Taylor.

@TriumphBooks

LE OF EACH BOOK WILL BE DONATED TO THE SALVATION ARMY.

 Celebrating American Aspirations
UNIVERSITY PRESS And Accomplishments
OF FLORIDA
Khizr Khan electrified viewers around the world; now he does the
same for readers
K
hizr Khan, the Muslim-Amer-
ican Gold Star father who
delivered a rousing speech at
the 2016 Democratic National Con-
vention, is here in Miami to present
his two recently published books. An
American Family: A Memoir of Hope
and Sacrifice is for adults; This Is Our
Constitution: Discover America with a
Gold Star Father examining the Consti-
tution and other key documents that
shaped our nation, is aimed at readers
VISIT US
ages 10 and up.
In An American Family, Khan writes
of growing up in rural Pakistan as the
oldest of 10 children and chronicles
at the fair his 1980 emigration to the U.S. with
his wife, Ghazala,
where they
became Ameri-
can citizens and
raised their three
sons. Their middle
child, U.S. Army
captain Humayun
Khan, was killed
in 2004 while
stopping a suicide
attack in Iraq and
was posthumously awarded a Purple
Heart and Bronze Star.
Asked what inspired him to write
his memoir, Khan explains that last
year, he and his wife were approached
by a couple. They shook our hands
and gave us their condolences on the
death of our son, and asked us if we
were writing a book about our lives,
he recalls. We told them we were not,
but at various events so many others
were curious about our experiences
that I began to consider it.
Revisiting his past while writing An
American Family was not easy, Khan
notes: Parts were and remain painful.
@floridapress
@floridapress
In the book, I wanted to present my
SHOP OUR life truthfully without being negative.
I wanted to convey how far we have
HOLIDAY SALE
16 upress.ufl.edu
PUBLISHERSWEEKLY.COM
come and how grateful we are for
what weve been blessed with, but also
to show that our dignity and respect
didnt come from sitting at home. We
made some deliberate steps and were
not afraid to stand up for what we
believe in.
A visit to Khans hometown middle-
school sowed the seeds for This Is
Our Constitution, in which the author
shares his personal perspective on
the relevance of the Constitution and
the Bill of Rights. I told the students
about reading the Declaration of In-
dependence when I was in law school
in Pakistan, and how deeply it affected
me to learn of this nation that had
declaredand wonits independence,
he says. I was watching keenly and
realized how interested these students
were and what amazing questions they
were asking.
Inspired, Khan
decided to share
his perspective.
I want children
to realize that
the essence of
these documents
is the right to
human dignity.
These rights are
inalienable, but
we have to preserve them and breathe
life into them. It is imperativein fact
its obligatorythat we be aware of
that, without any partisan taint to the
conversation. I hope that both my
books will help readers appreciate
thatand inspire them to act.
Sally Lodge
Khizr Khan on an American Family
Saturday, November 18, 9:3010:30 a.m.
Chapman Conference Center, 300 NE
Second Ave.
Giving the Lumberjanes a New Life
Mariko Tamaki moves from comics to a middle grade series
A
ttention Lumberjanes fans:
the five teenage adventure-
seeking campers of comics
and graphic novels fame now have a
new middle grade series of illustrated
books. Written by Mariko Tamaki and
illustrated by Brooklyn
Allen (a cocreator of the original
series), the series emphasizes the same
values of inclusion, friendship, and
teamwork that infuse the Lumberjanes
comics. The series opener, Lumber-
janes #1: Unicorn Power! which debuted
last month, welcomes readers back to
Miss Qiunzella Thiskwin Penniquiqul
Thistle Crumpets Camp for Hardcore
Lady Types. In this adventure, the
scouts hike up the tallest mountain
theyve ever seen and discover that it
may not be a mountain at alland they
just might encounter unicorns.
Like her creature-vanquishing and
butt-kicking heroines, Tamaki is al-
ways up for a challenge, and she faced
several when she agreedeagerlyto
sign on as author of the new Lumber-
janes series. Though she has created
numerous graphic novels writing a
novel was, well, a novel experience
for the author. I initially remembered
back to the illustrated novels I loved
as a kid, books like Harriet the Spy,
she recalls. I love the way that the
OUT NOW
illustrations add to the orchestra of
different voices and mannerisms.
Adding a spinoff to an existing
series presented its own challenge.
We wanted the new series to be
something that can be a readers
first experience with Lumberjanes,
but also fit in well with the existing
series, in terms of characters and story
lines, Tamaki notes. That was a bit
of a challenge. But the Lumberjanes
characters are so vibrant that it was
less stressful than I had anticipated,
and the new stories came relatively
easily. Tamaki, who has just
finished the final edits on her
second Lumberjanes novel, The
Moon Is Up (due out May 2018),
has learned the importance
of following through on the ISBN 9789460582097
hints and clues she provides in
a prior installment. I realized
that when I set something up,
I have to make it happen! she
says. I have to make sure that 500 OFF-THE-BEATEN-TRACK
my present-tense self agrees PL ACES SELECTED BY
with my past-tense self. With
my second Lumberjanes A SAVVY MIAMI LOCAL
novel, I was a bit more cau-
tious about that.
Though Tamaki says she
has been an ardent fan of
The 500 Hidden Secrets is a
Lumberjanes since the first comics ap-
peared, and that she has long admired series of essential city guides.
illustrator Brooklyn Allens work, she Discover all the available titles on
had some mildbut short-livedcon- WWW.THE500HIDDENSECRETS.COM
cerns after agreeing to write the new
series. I like that this is a series about
a women-centric universe that breaks
out of stereotypes. It is so nice to write
books without any viciousness among retailprice: $23 / each
the girl characters. That is a positive, 4.75 x 7 inches, 256 pages
characterizing part of Lumberjanes order from:
that I really love. ACC Distribution
Phone: 800-252-5231
Sally Lodge Mail: ussales@accpublishinggroup.com
National Book Network
Mariko Tamaki Phone: 800-462-6420
Friday, November 17, 1011 a.m. Mail: customercare@nbnbooks.com
Magic Screening Room (Building 8, 1st
floor), 300 NE Second Ave.
MIAMI BOOK FAIR | NOVEMBER 2017 17
 A Love Letter
DownAndOutBooks.com
To Music and Ghana
Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Honor
Awardwinner Kwame Alexander talks about
building a library in Ghana and his latest book
978-1-943402-18-2
Paperback $16.95
eBook $7.99
Blade, a teenage musician
in search of a purpose and
the meaning of home, is
at the center of Solo, a new
YA novel written in verse
by Kwame Alexander and
Mary Rand Hess. Things
are not easy for Blade: his
mother died 10 years earlier,
and his father is a drug-
addicted, has-been rock star.
He has lost the girlfriend he
loved, and his sister disclos-
es a long-suppressed family
secret that compels him to
leave his Los Angeles home
for Ghana, where he hopes
to find answers. We asked
Alexander about his roots as
978-1-946502-04-9 a writer and his inspiration
Paperback $17.95 for Solo.
eBook $7.99
18 PUBLISHERSWEEKLY.COM
Portia Wiggins Portraiture
What inspired you to
become a writer?
I had loving, literary parents
who totally immersed me
in language and literatureit
was my job, my reward,
and my punishment. Even
though I read reluctantly as
a child, as it turned out, my
parents really had figured
out how to raise a writer.
I went to college to study
biochemistry, since I wasnt
really interested in litera-
ture and reading. Then two
things happened: I took a
course in organic chemistry,
and I took an advanced
poetry class taught by Nikki
Giovanni. And that class
changed my lifes direction.
In Solo, music is an
important part of Blades
lifewas it also a compel-
ling factor in your life as
a teenager?
Absolutely. In fact, Solo is a
tribute to the music that de-
fined me when I was in high
school. It was the music of
Prince, the Police, and other
rock and roll musicians that
helped me find a path to
I am passionate about
my work in Ghana and
presenting new opportu-
nities to its young people
and teachers.
understanding myself. Music
is still very important to me.
I listen to instrumental jazz
music while Im writing,
hip-hop while Im preparing
for a school visit, and bossa
nova when Im at the beach.
For me, music has been life-
giving and lifesaving.
In Solo, Blade travels
from L.A. to Ghana on
a quest to learn about
his heritage and himself.
Why did you choose to
send him to Ghana?
The novel is both a love
letter to rock and roll music
and a love letter to the peo-
ple of Ghana. I cofounded a
literacy initiative in Ghana,
which includes building
a library in the village of
Konko. I traveled there this
summer with a group of
writers and educators, and
took part in a ribbon-cutting
ceremony for the first phase
of the library construction.
I am passionate about my
work in Ghana and present-
ing new opportunities to its
young people and teach-
ers. It was important to
me to include some of my
experiences there in Solo
participating in this initiative
in Ghana has been inspiring
to my life in general and my
writing in particular.
Might you and Mary
consider writing a sequel
to Solo?
Kids and librarians have
been asking that same
questionthey want to
know what happens next
to Blade. Mary and I never
set out to write a series, and
in our minds the story has
ended. But then I said the
#
same thing about my novel,
The Crossover [a Newbery
Award winner], and Ive just
finished the final draft of a
prequel! I do feel as though
weve told Blades com-
plete story in Solobut who
knows?
Download our FREE App and watch
Sally Lodge
Maxi and friends come alive in
Augmented Reality
An Evening with Kwame More at PlayingForward.com
Alexander, in Conversation with
Edwidge Danticat
Tuesday, November 14,
67 p.m. Chapman Conference
Center, 300 NE Second Ave.
MIAMI BOOK FAIR | NOVEMBER 2017 19
 Comics Authors Look
Backward and Forward
The Miami Book Fair welcomes an array of voices from the world of graphic books
Famed cartoonist, feminist,
and herstorian Trina
Robbins has a life as color-
ful as anything shes put on
paper, and her new prose
memoir Last Girl Stand-
ing is a lively look at her
adventures. From her time
as an integral figure in the
arts scenes of both New
York and LA in the 1960s
(including an affair with Jim
Morrison) to her key role in
editing Wimmens Comix, the
pioneering female-focused
underground comic, to her
unstinting efforts on behalf
of women cartoonists,
Robbinss down-to-earth
viewpoint puts a memorable
life into perspective. Her
bibliography is full of com-
ics and books on the history
of pop culture (shes profiled
seminal cartoonists Lily
20 PUBLISHERSWEEKLY.COM
Renee and Nell Brinkley,
among others), but writing
a memoir was something
she always wanted to do. I
finally decided now was the
time, so I stopped everything
else and wrote it, she says.
Comics have a mis-
taken reputation as a boys
medium, and Robbins
doesnt avoid recounting
get some work. Nowadays,
the conflicts that came up
in advocating for a broader
role for women in comics.
I needed to write about the covers from Marvel, Little
bad times, especially since
so much of it had feminist
meanings. When I was
younger and desperate for
work, editors would tell me
women dont read comics. egate for Mad, and George
I swallowed and took it
because I still hoped I might
I would just say, Thats
absolute bull!
Robert Sikoryak has
made a career out of draw-
ing in other peoples styles,
and two of his current
books take full advantage of
that skill. Terms and Condi-
tions takes Apples iTunes
contract and illustrates it in
every possible style of com-
ics, with a Steve Jobs avatar
guiding readers through
endless legalese. Id gotten
a few anti-Apple remarks
from when I was serializing
the book online, he says.
Some people thought it
would somehow expose
all the allegedly nefarious
secrets buried in the text
(I still havent found those
secrets, myself ). But most
everyone instantly gets the
humor of illustrating such
an infamously long and
unread document.
The Unquotable Trump
finds the 45th presidents
most outrageous statements
transformed into comics
Lulu, EC Comics, and more.
Sikoryak had previously
created two superhero-
esque presidential parodies:
Bill Clinton as the Superdel-
Bush as the Decider for the
Daily Show. What I tried with disabilities and various novel, Come Again (due in
to do differently than those disorders, Powell says, I 2018), was actually started
was to use only the actual tried to avoid my profes- before March. It benefited
spoken words of Trump. sional experiences directly greatly simmering on the
Since all my work plays influencing the book itself. back burner for years. Its
with style and text appro- Looking back on his going to be something really
priation, I wanted to be very earlier works in the wake of special and weird, both a
faithful to my sources, no March, hes proud of them. return to form and a huge
matter what I thought of The intuitive personal- leap forward thanks to the
them. Times such as these reckoning narratives in Any discipline and experience
are fertile for humor, he Empire and Swallow Me gained through March.
says, but when the stakes Whole are my home planet.
Heidi MacDonald
are higher, it can make the My forthcoming graphic
jokes funnier. Nate Powell

Nate Powell is best

known for his work illus-
trating the National Book
Awardwinning March
trilogy, the memoir of civil
rights icon Rep. John Lewis,
as written by Lewis and
Andrew Aydin. But his new
Omnibox collecting three of
his pre-March worksthe
graphic novels Swallow Me
Whole and Any Empire and
the short story collection
You Dont Saygives a wider Nate Powell: Living in HIstory Trina Robbins: Summers
view of his talent. Saturday, November 18, of Love and War
Swallow Me Whole came 121 p.m. Sunday, November 19,
out in 2008 and won that 121 p.m.
years Eisner award for Best Robert Sikoryak presents
Graphic Novel, putting Pow- Carousel: Comics Performances Spotlight: The Trump
ell on the cartooning map. and Picture Shows Presidential Library
Though the story, about Saturday, November 18, Sunday, November 19,
two stepsiblings struggling 45 p.m 45 p.m.
with mental illness, parallels
All events are at Magic Screening Room, 300 NE Second Ave.
some of his decade-long
(Building 8, 1st floor).
experience working for folks

BRAGG Health Science Books Paul C. Bragg did more for

Americas Health than
any one person I know of.
10 Must Read Health Books They Inform, Influence & Inspire! Dr. C. EVERETT KOOP,
Former US Surgeon General

Also In Spanish Also In Spanish Also In Spanish Bragg's easy to I love Bragg
Vinegar Drinks.
follow Health They're my secret
Program makes
of all secrets.
my days Healthy!
KATY PERRY,
CLINT Singer
EASTWOOD,
Bragg Follower
over 65 years
DISTRIBUTED BY

National Book Network

192 pgs 6 x 9 $9.95 240 pgs 6 x 9 $9.95 224 pgs 6 x 9 $11.95 280 pgs 6 x 9 $11.95 336 pgs 6 x 9 $11.95
(800 ) 62-6 20
978-0-87790-100-6 978-0-87790-008-5 978-0-87790-065-8 978-0-87790-120-4 978-0-87790-097-9
NBNbooks.com
#1 in Russia
Patricia Paul C.
Bragg, Bragg,
ND, PhD. ND, PhD.

BRAGG.com
312 pgs 6 x 9 $11.95 208 pgs 6 x 9 $9.95 256 pgs 6 x 9 $11.95 344 pgs 6 x 9 $13.95 224 pgs 6 x 9 $9.95
978-0-87790-039-9 978-0-87790-057-3 978-0-87790-093-1 978-0-87790-027-6 978-0-87790-130-3
800- 6-1990
Available at NBNbooks.com & Stores Worldwide YouTube Twitter Facebook Instagram

MIAMI BOOK FAIR | NOVEMBER 2017 21

 Spinning from the Ice
To Her One True Love
Tillie Walden illustrates her journey from competitive figure skater
to comics and coming out
T
illie Walden has
lived a lot in her
21 years, enough
for a 400-page graphic
memoir, Spinning. The book
recounts her 12 years as a
competitive figure skater,
and then her decision to
come out as gay. Following
her retirement from skating,
she attended the Center for
Cartoon Studies in White
River Junction, Vermont,
and shes swiftly become a
prolific and award-winning
cartoonist. She spoke with
PW about how she made
the transition.
Theres so much fascina-
tion with figure skating
and how skaters give their
life over completely to
practice and skating. How
did you develop your
other interests and art
while you were skating?
It was tricky. In my early
skating years, I didnt de-
velop many other aspects
of my life, because skating
really wasnt a sportit was
like a lifestyle. It was so
intense. But in high school
all the disillusionment with
skating started, and I really
started pushing back and
started making time to work
on my art, and to develop it.
Because I think I knew deep
down that that was where
my future was. After I quit
skating, I had an entire year
that I spent doing nothing
but drawing. I was able to
take that focus I had learned
22 PUBLISHERSWEEKLY.COM
from skating, but apply it to
my drawing.
You started skating when
you were five. What
made you go onto the ice
for the first time?
Its a good story, but it
didnt actually make it into
the book. My older brother
was a figure skater very
briefly. Hes two years older
than me, and so I would
often go to the rink with
him. I really dont have a
specific memory of how I
managed to get on the ice.
He stopped skating very
soon after I started. For
some reason, I was the one
that kept going.
Youve said that your own
mother didnt realize how
much you hated skating
until she read the book.
Theres a lot of common
truths between you and
your family when youre
growing up that you dont
realize at the time. And now
my family and I have really
reflected after this book.
And yeah, my mom wasnt
happy in the rinkjust like
I wasnt happy in the rink.
And now I wonder if some
of the friends, or some of
the people in the book,
were having similar experi-
ences and just didnt talk
about it.
After you gave up
skating, what made you
want to pursue comics
specifically?
Around junior or senior
year in high school, my dad
signed me up for a two-day
Tillie Walden
workshop with Scott Mc-
Cloud [Understanding Comics]
about making comics. It
was literally that class that
did it. For two days, I did
nothing but make comics.
And it was like, Oh OK,
this is what I wanted. I get it
now. I started making them
voraciously.
How does the discipline
of skating manifest itself
in making comics?
Im very comfortable spend-
ing long hours working
on something. Just in the
way that I was comfortable
spending long hours practic-
ing for what felt like not a
useful goal. So I can really
just sit down and pound out
work if I need to. I used to
wake up early for skating
practice, and now I wake up
early and I draw.
Do you have any advice
for kids who are strug-
gling with coming out?
Just that there is no hurry,
and that there is no time-
line. I think what people are
realizing more and more
especially with a lot of
conversations about gender,
as well as sexualityis that
sometimes things arent
so clear-cut. And thats
completely acceptable.
And everyone around you
doesnt need to understand
who you are. You just need
to understand who you are.
Youve come very far in
just four years. Whats
next?
Obviously more comics, but
Im also beginning to dip
my toes in some different
mediums. But the comics
will always be there. Be-
cause they are my first and
one true love.
Heidi MacDonald
Tillie Walden
Friday, November 17,
10:3011:30 a.m. Room 3314
(Building 3, 3rd floor)
300 NE Second Ave.
 Bewitched by Witchcraft
Exploring fantasy and identity with Molly
Ostertags Witch Boy

M
olly Ostertags middle grade graphic novel, Witch
Boy, is finding new ground. The story centers
on Aster, a boy from a rigidly organized magical
society that exists within our own world. Here, boys are only
allowed to learn shapeshifting, and girls learn only witchcraft.
Asters interest in the forbidden magic of witches is a clear
metaphor for coming out as trans or queer, but the message
blends seamlessly into the fantasy setting. IN NOVEMBER,
Ostertag was originally sparked by thinking about Tamora
Pierces Song of the Lioness fantasy series, in which a girl
AND ALL YEAR ROUND
dresses as a boy to become a knight. There are a lot of DURING EIGHT DAYS EACH NOVEMBER HUNDREDS OF AUTHORS
books about girls AND THOUSANDS OF READERS CONVERGE ON DOWNTOWN MIAMI
wanting mascu- FOR THE NATIONS PREMIER LITERARY FESTIVAL.
line strength, but AND WHEN THATS OVER,
not the reverse, WE KEEP IT GOING, MONTH IN, MONTH OUT.
she says. I knew
a lot of amazing
boys and people
EVENTS ALL OVER SOUTH FLORIDA
assigned male
at birth who are
MIAMI BOOK FAIR 2018
Molly Ostertag

NOVEMBER 11 - 18 / STREET FAIR: NOV. 16 - 18

transgender or
genderqueer and
want to have the
flexibility to explore feminine things without being stigma-
tized. I have a very clear idea of the kind of kids that this
book is for, and I hope it gives them some kind of safe space
while they are reading it.
As one might guess from her seemingly effortless art and
storytelling, Ostertag showed early talent. While still in her
sophomore year at SVA, she and a friend named Brandon Lee
Mulligan came up with the idea for Strong Female Protagonist,
an ongoing webcomic that plays on tropes of action comics.
And soon after graduation, she signed up with First Second to
adapt Shattered Warriors, Sharon Shinns unpublished SF novel.
GENERATION GENIUS
WRITING AND READING FOR CHILDREN AND TEENS.
FIRST DRAFT LITERARY SOCIALS
WRITE A STORY. HAVE A DRINK. WRITE A BETTER STORY.
THE BIG READ READING CAMPAIGN TO ENGAGE RELUCTANT
READERS EVERY MARCH. POWERED BY A GRANT FROM THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT OF THE ARTS.
VISITING AUTHORS: READINGS,
LECTURES AND SIGNINGS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
PAZ PRIZE FOR POETRY
HONORS A POET WRITING IN SPANISH AND LIVING IN THE U.S.
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE NATIONAL POETRY SERIES.

For now, Ostertag shows no signs of slowing down. She

has a day job as a designer on the Disney animated show Star
CREATIVE WRITING PROGRAM
YEAR-ROUND NON-CREDIT COURSES AND WORKSHOPS.
vs. the Forces of Evil. Witch Boy has already been optioned as
an animated film by Fox, and shes at work on the sequel, The MIAMI WRITERS INSTITUTE
Hidden Witch, which comes out in fall 2018. CREATIVE WRITING CONFERENCE EACH MAY.
But its drawing that has her excited now. Ive found a new
love for comics recently, and I just want to make more fantasy READ TO LEARN BOOKS FOR FREE
FREE BOOKS THAT GET KIDS READING.
comics with an emotional and moral center.

Heidi MacDonald
MBF/DE GROOT PRIZE
AWARDED TO THE AUTHOR OF AN UNPUBLISHED NOVELLA.

EVENTS IN ENGLISH, SPANISH

AND CREOLE.

Witchy (Wo)men: Modern Fantastical Witch Stories VISIT MIAMIBOOKFAIR.COM FOR EVENTS
Saturday, November 18, 12 p.m.
/miamibookfair #miamiREADS
MDC Live Arts Lab, 300 NE Second Ave. (Building 1, 1st floor)

MIAMI BOOK FAIR | NOVEMBER 2017 23

 ESPAOL

Ibero-American Author Programs

Heres a glimpse at some highlights of the wide range of programs conducted
in Spanish throughout the fair. All events are at 300 NE Second Ave.

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 12 MONDAY, NOVEMBER 13

4 PM 7 PM
An Evening with Mara Libros desde dos orilla Mirta Ojito

Dueas and Mirta Ojito Building 3, 2nd floor, Room

Building 1, 2nd floor, Audi- 3209. Be a part of the Miami TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14
torium. Kick off a week of Book Fair launch of a new 7 PM
Ibero-American writers with publishing house, Dos orillas, Imgenes para apresar
bestselling author Mara managed by Cuban writer el tiempo
Dueas when she dis- Nelson Simn, with the pre- Building 3, 2nd floor, Room
cusses La templanza, sentation of its first three titles: 3209. Spend an evening with
her novel, with journal- Vampires Never Say Goodbye, three authors presenting their
ist Mirta Ojito. Dueass by Mexican author Luis Aguilar; books on visual arts: Cuban
newest story is one of El hombre incompleto, by researcher, curator, and arts
ambition, heartbreak, Cuban poet and narrator critic Grethel Morell with
and desire set in Manuel Adrin Lpez; and A la Damas, esfinges y mambi-
Mexico, Cuba, and sombra de los muchachos en sas: Mujeres en la fotografa
Spain in the 1860s. flor, by Nelson Simn. cubana 18401902; Cuban

Mara Dueas
 May 2-5, 2018 / DOWNTOWN MIAMI

researcher Sara Vega Miche American journalist Alberto

with El cartel cubano llama dos
veces, in which she analyzes
cinema signs; and Argentin-
ian writer and diplomat Pedro
Sondereguer with Momentos
en Nueva York, a visual guide
to the Big Apple based on his
personal trips.
Muller, with Cierro mis ojos y
escribo estos poemas, a book
dedicated to the blind.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16
8 PM
Versos compartidos
Building 2, 1st floor, Room
2106. Enjoy more verse with a

W r i t e r s group of Cuban poets sharing

mi
new literary works: Lizette

M i a Espinosa, winner of the 2014

International Latino Book
Awards, with Por la ruta del

t i t u t e agua; Luis Gonzlez Cruz

Ins
finalist of the Letras de Oro
Prizewith Sonsoneto; and
Pedro Sondereguer Guggenheim Fellow Pablo

REGISTER TODAY!
MIAMIBOOKFAIR.COM
CREATIVE WRITING, CRAFT TALKS,
PUBLISHING, & PARTIES
2018 Workshop Faculty:
ROSS GAY (Poetry)
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award

MIN JIN LEE (Novel-Writing)

National Book Award Fiction Finalist

LESLEY NNEKA ARIMAH (Short Stories)

National Book Award 5 Under 35 Honoree

SARA BENINCASA (Character Development)

Critically acclaimed screenwriter

ADA CALHOUN (Memoir)

New York Times Editors Choice bestseller
SAMUEL G. FREEDMAN (Narrative Nonfiction)
Winner of the Goldziher Prize for Journalism
CLAUDIA PIEIRO (Spanish)
Internationally acclaimed novelist
LIZ VAN HOOSE
(Publishing & Manuscript Consultations)
Editor for acclaimed authors Haruki Murakami, Jim Shepard,
Amor Towles, and more!
Legna Rodrguez Iglesias
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15
8 PM
Poetas en Miami
Building 2, 1st floor, Room
2106. Wax poetic with Cuban
poet and narrator Legna Rodr-
guez Iglesias, who is presenting
Miami Century Fox, winner
of the 2016 Paz Poetry Prize;
Peruvian writer, journalist, and
musician Julio Llerena with El Julio Llerena

I N N O V E M B E R , A N D A L L Y E A R R O U N D sol en la niebla; and Cuban

26 PUBLISHERSWEEKLY.COM

Lizette Espinosa
Medina with Soledades, a col-
lection of poems about
the concept of exile in its
purest form.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17
7 PM
Transformando vidas con
el Dr. Juan
Building 2, 1st floor, Room
2106. Univisions popular
Juan Rivera is presenting the
second installment of the series
Consulta con Doctor Juan
V I N TAG E E S PA O L
Home to the most popular and
award-winning Spanish-language books
Meet
Isabel Allende
at the Miami
Book Fair
Find exact details on
miamibookfair.com
9780525436454 10/31
Juan Rivera
(Appointment with Dr. Juan),
in which he discusses whether
home remedies really work.
8 PM 9780525434290
50 aos de Cien aos de
soledad
Building 2, 1st floor, Room
2106. Give homage to the
50th anniversary of the first
edition of A Hundred Years of
Solitude by Nobel Prizewin-
ner Gabriel Garca Mrquez,
with Colombian narrator and
journalist Juan Carlos Botero,
Argentinian writer and scholar
Pablo Brescia, and Suzanne
Jill Levine, renowned transla-
tor and teacher at University
of California at Santa Barbara. 9780525562443 10/24
This event will be moderated
by Mnica Prandi, Argentinian N U E S T RO I D I O M A , N U E S T RO S L I B RO S
psychoanalyst and founder VintageEspanol.com
of the digital magazine Letra
Urbana.
MIAMI BOOK FAIR | NOVEMBER 2017 27
 The Drama of 1968
Journalist Lawrence ODonnell revisits an
unthinkable campaign
The political world that
were living in now had
its seeds planted in 1968,
Lawrence ODonnell, a
journalist and cable TV
host, says. He illustrates his
point from the very first
page of Playing with Fire:
The 1968 Election and the
Transformation of American
Politics. ODonnell describes
thenTV producer Roger
Ailes coaching presidential
candidate Richard Nixon.
Nixon ended up hiring Ailes
as a political consultant, and
Ailes would later consult
on campaigns for Ronald
Regan and George H.W.
Bush, before becoming the
founding CEO of Fox News
in 1996.
Roger Ailess effect
on politics was much
longer-lasting than Rich-
ard Nixons, even though
Nixon was elected president
twice, ODonnell says,
referring to Fox News and
the late CEOs influence on
conservative movements.
ODonnell himself is a
beneficiary of the cable-
news environment that
Ailes fostered. Since 2010,
he has hosted the news
and political commentary
show The Last Word with
Lawrence ODonnell on the
liberal-leaning network
MSNBC. The inspiration
for the book arrived a few
years ago, during a regular
segment in which the host
looks back at moments in
history. ODonnell revisited
two unthinkable events
from the 1968 election: the
28 PUBLISHERSWEEKLY.COM
assassinations of Martin
Luther King Jr. and presi-
dential candidate Robert F.
Kennedy.
The shape of the drama
became clear to me instant-
ly, ODonnell says, tapping
his years of experience turn-
ing Oval Office politics into
compelling drama as an ex-
ecutive producer and writer
on The West Wing. The
book also chronicles other
transformative flashpoints
from the 1968 election:
then-president Lyndon B.
Johnsons shocking decision
not to seek reelection, the
antiwar campaign of presi-
dential campaign Eugene
McCarthy, the bloody riots
at the 1968 Democratic
convention, and Richard
Nixons ruthless victory in New York Times. The dark-
the general election. est secret of the 1968 cam-
ODonnell was a high paign was not fully revealed
school student during this until 2017, ODonnell
tumultuous year. He has says, thinking about his
vivid memories of watch- own legacy. Whatever Im
ing campaign moments talking about tonight in in-
unfold on TV, such as vestigative journalism is just
Chicago mayor Richard a seed. We may not know
J. Daley angrily shout- whats there for another 50
ing down a speaker at the years. Basically, it teaches
Democratic convention. us humility about what we
Its one of those things that think we know about cur-
never leaves you. You can rent events.
never forget what you saw,
ODonnell says. Jason Boog
ODonnells book
concludes with a revelation
about Nixons behind-the- An Evening with
scenes efforts to delay a Lawrence ODonnell
Vietnam War peace agree- Monday, November 13,
ment during the 1968 67 p.m.
campaigna discovery that Chapman Conference Center
didnt completely surface (Building 3, 2nd floor),
until a 2017 report by the 300 NE Second Ave.
Lawrence ODonnell
Never enough time to catch
up on your to-be-read list?
AUDIOBOOKSTHE PERFECT
MULTITASKING SOLUTION

Find all of these amazing authors at the Miami Book Fair!

Illuminate your commute, make visits to the gym fly by,

or spice up chores around home
Get hooked on great listening!
Also available in hardcover, ebook, and large print wherever books are sold SOUNDCLOUD.COM/HACHETTEAUDIO
Start these adventures and more at LBYR.com @LittleBrownYR