When

Sun., Nov. 15

Ticket Information

• $8, $5 ages 62 and up, free for ages 18 and under

Where

• Miami Dade College-Wolfson Campus
  300 NE Second Ave.
  Miami, FL 33132
• 305-237-3258
• http://www.miamibookfair.com

About

Features more than 350 authors reading and discussing their work, including the Latin American and Spanish authors who participate in the IberoAmerican Authors Program.

Schedule:

Del infierno al paraÏso con escala: 10-10:40 a.m., Room 3315 (Building 3, Third Floor).

Ralph Nader on Only the Super Rich Can Save Us: 10 a.m., Chapman Conference Center, Building 3, Second Floor, Room 3210.

Rosa Sanchez on Nosotras: Opening the Door to Our Love Life: 10 a.m., Room 7174/7175 (Building 7, First Floor).

Barbara Graham, Roxana Robinson and Molly Gileson Eye of My Heart: 27 Writers Reveal the Hidden Pleasures and Perils of Being a Grandmother: 10:30 a.m., Prometeo Theater, Building 1, First Floor, Room 1101.

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., Room 3410 (Building 3, Fourth Floor).

John Dufresne on Requiem, Mass: A Novel and Dan Chaon on Await Your Reply: 10:30 a.m., Auditorium Pavilion B (Parking Lot 9).

RaÑl Castro: a la sombra de Fidel: With Lissette Bustamante; 10:30-11:15 a.m., Room 3313/3314 (Building 3, Third Floor).

El retorno de los Atlantes: With Santiago Aranegui; 10:50-11:30 a.m., Room 3315 (Building 3, Third Floor).

Brad Gooch on Flannery, Kenneth Turan on Joseph Papp, Phillip Lopate on Susan Sontag and Francine Prose on Anne Frank; 11 a.m., Batten, Building 2, First Floor, Room 2106.

David Farley on An Irreverent Curiosity: In Search of the Church's Strangest Relic in Italy's Oddest Town, Daniel Asa Rose on Larry's Kidney: Being the True Story of How I Found Myself in China with My Black Sheep Cousin and His Mail-Order Bride, Skirting the Law to Get Him a Transplant-and Save His Life and Colin Beavan on No Impact Man: 11 a.m., Room 3208/3209 (Building 3, Second Floor).

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 a.m., Room 7128 (Building 7, First Floor).

Meri-Jane Rochelson on A Jew in the Public Arena: The Career of Israel Zangwill and Aryeh Rubin on Jewish Sages of Today: Profiles of Extraordinary People: 11 a.m., Room 7106/7107 (Building 7, First Floor).

Sherman Alexie on War Dances: 11 a.m., Chapman Conference Center, Building 3, Second Floor, Room 3210.

Tigertail: A South Florida Poetry Annual with Michael Hettich, Denise Duhamel, Campbell McGrath and Hugo Rodriguez: 11 a.m., Auditorium Pavilion C (Parking Lot 9).

Zeida Cecilia-Mendez, Daniel Lewis and Kathie Sigler on Fernando Bujones: 11 a.m., Room 7174/7175 (Building 7, First Floor).

Ann Louise Bardach on Without Fidel: A Death Foretold in Miami, Havana and Washington and Gerald Posner on Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power-A Dispatch From the Beach: 11 a.m., Auditorium Pavilion A (Parking Lot 9).

Voces dominicanas: With DedÎ Mirabal and RenÎ RodrÏguez Soriano; 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Room 3313/3314 (Building 3, Third Floor).

Memorias de un diletante: With Luis Zalamea; 11:40 a.m.-12:20 p.m., Room 3315 (Building 3, Third Floor).

Barbara Hamby on All-Night Lingo Tango, Robert Polito on Hollywood and God, David Kirby on The Temple Gate Called Beautiful and Adrian Castro on Handling Destiny: Noon; Auditorium Pavilion C (Parking Lot 9).

Christopher Kenneally in conversation with Bob Garfield of the Copyright Clearance Center, The Chaos Scenario: Noon; Room 7174/7175 (Building 7, First Floor).

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: Noon; Chapman Conference Center, Building 3, Second Floor, Room 3210.

Michael Rosen on What Else But Home: Seven Boys and an American Journey Between the Projects and the Penthouse, Helen Thorpe on Just Like Us: The True Story of Four Mexican Girls Coming of Age in America and Po Bronson on NurtureShock: New Thinking on Children: Noon; Room 7128 (Building 7, First Floor).

Patrick Alexander on Marcel Proust's Search for Lost Time and Eric Karpeles on the Paintings in Proust: Noon; Prometeo Theater, Building 1, First Floor, Room 1101.

Roxana Robinson on Cost: A Novel, Kate Walbert on A Short History of Women and Sarah Dunant on Sacred Hearts: Noon; Auditorium Pavilion B (Parking Lot 9).

The Art of Harvey Kurtzman-The Mad Genius of Comics: With Denis Kitchen, Charles Kochman, Nellie Kurtzman and Nick Meglin; Noon; Centre Gallery (Building 1, Third Floor, Room 1365).

David Finkel on The Good Soldiers and Doug Stanton on Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of U.S. Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan: 12:30 p.m., Room 3208/3209 (Building 3, Second Floor).

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., Auditorium Pavilion A (Parking Lot 9).

La danza de los abanicos: With Carmen Duarte; 12:30-1:10 p.m., Room 3315 (Building 3, Third Floor).

S. L. Wisenberg on The Adventures of Cancer Bitch and Carolyn Rubenstein on True Voices of Cancer Survivors: 12:30 p.m., Room 7106/7107 (Building 7, First Floor).

Christopher Kenneally in conversation with Tao Lin, Shoplifting from American Apparel: 12:45 p.m., Room 7174/7175 (Building 7, First Floor).

Recordando a Lezama y a Juana de Ibarbourou: 12:45-1:45 p.m., Room 3313/3314 (Building 3, Third Floor).

David Wolman on Righting the Mother Tongue: From Olde English to Email, the Tangled Story of English Spelling, Roy Blount Jr. on Alphabet Juice and Thomas Mallon on Yours Ever: People and Their Letters: 1 p.m., Batten, Building 2, First Floor, Room 2106.

En el vientre de la ballena: With Santiago RodrÏguez; 1:20-2 p.m., Room 3315 (Building 3, Third Floor).

Alan Greer on Choices and Challenges: Lessons in Faith, Hope and Love: 1:30 p.m., Room 3410 (Building 3, Fourth Floor).

Brian Fies on Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow? and Neil Kleid on The Great Kahn: 1:30 p.m., Centre Gallery (Building 1, Third Floor, Room 1365).

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., Auditorium Pavilion B (Parking Lot 9).

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., Auditorium Pavilion C (Parking Lot 9).

John Freeman on The Tyranny of E-Mail: The Four Thousand Year Journey to Your Inbox and Hal Niedzviecki on The Peep Diaries: 1:30 p.m., Prometeo Theater, Building 1, First Floor, Room 1101.

Lars Schoultz on That Infernal Little Cuban Republic: The United States and the Cuban Revolution, Joseph Scarpaci on Cuban Landscapes: Heritage, Memory, and Place and John Radanovich on Wildman of Rhythm: The Life and Music of Benny MorÎ: 1:30 p.m., Room 7128 (Building 7, First Floor).

Rich Cohen on Israel is Real: An Obsessive Quest to Understand the Jewish Nation and Its History, Joel Schalit on Israel vs. Utopia and Dan Senor on Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle: 1:30 p.m., Chapman Conference Center, Building 3, Second Floor, Room 3210.

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 p.m., Auditorium Pavilion A (Parking Lot 9).

Harold Evans on My Paper Chase: True Stories of Vanished Times: 2 p.m., Room 3208/3209 (Building 3, Second Floor).

John Hemingway on Strange Tribe: A Family Memoir and Robert Leleux on Memoirs of a Beautiful Boy: 2 p.m., Room 7174/7175 (Building 7, First Floor).

La Dra-Isabel firma ejemplares de su libro Pensamientos-palabras que iluminan el camino: With Isabel GÐmez Bassols; 2 p.m., Atrium, Building 1.

PasiÐn por Cuba: With Orlando GonzÍlez Esteva and Rafael Rojas; 2-3 p.m., Room 3313/3314 (Building 3, Third Floor).

Tim Page on Parallel Play: Life as an Outsider and Teresa Becerra on Embracing Autism: 2 p.m., Room 7106/7107 (Building 7, First Floor).

La porfÏa de la razÐn: With Pedro Corzo; 2:10-2:50 p.m., Room 3315 (Building 3, Third Floor).

Bill Butler on Embracing the World: The University of Miami from Cardboard College to International and Global Acclaim: 2:30 p.m., Room 3410 (Building 3, Fourth Floor).

Nicole Chaison on The Passion of the Hausfrau and Marisa Marchetto on Cancer Vixen: 2:30 p.m., Centre Gallery (Building 1, Third Floor, Room 1365).

William Grimes on Appetite City: A Culinary History of New York, Connie Rosenblum on Boulevard of Dreams: Heady Times, Heartbreak, and Hope along the Grand Concourse in the Bronx and Edward Rutherfurd on New York: The Novel: 2:30 p.m., Batten, Building 2, First Floor, Room 2106.

Benjamin Moser on Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector and Gerald Martin on Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Life: 3 p.m., Room 7128 (Building 7, First Floor).

Cuba detrÍs del telÐn: With MatÏas Montes Huidobro; 3-3:40 p.m., Room 3315 (Building 3, Third Floor).

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 p.m., Auditorium Pavilion C (Parking Lot 9).

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 p.m., Auditorium Pavilion B (Parking Lot 9).

Norman Podhoretz on Why Are Jews Liberals?: 3 p.m., Chapman Conference Center, Building 3, Second Floor, Room 3210.

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: Sex, Muscles, Diamonds and the Making of an American Legend: 3 p.m., Room 3208/3209 (Building 3, Second Floor).

Steve Karras on The Enemy I Knew: German Jews in the Allied Military in World War II, Allen Wells on Tropical Zion: General Trujillo, FDR, and the Jews of Sosua and Greg Dawson on Hiding in the Spotlight: A Musical Prodigy's Story of Survival, 1941-1946: 3 p.m., Prometeo Theater, Building 1, First Floor, Room 1101.

Summer Hill Seven on Hang Time! A Poetic Memoir and J.J. Colagrande on Headz: 3 p.m., Room 7174/7175 (Building 7, First Floor).

Ficciones actuales: With Gina Montaner, Fabiola Santiago and TomÍs FernÍndez Travieso; 3:15-4:30 p.m., Room 3313/3314 (Building 3, Third Floor).

A Conversation with Eric Nash on Manga Kamishibai: The Art of Japanese Paper Theater and Kurt Hassler, Publishing Director, Yen Press: 3:30 p.m., Centre Gallery (Building 1, Third Floor, Room 1365).

Carla Harris on Expect to Win: Proven Strategies from a Wall Street Vet, Alan Weis on The Business of Changing Lives: How One Company Took the Information Superhighway to the Inner City and Sharon Harvey Rosenberg on 10,001 Ways to Live Large on a Small Budget: 3:30 p.m., Room 7106/7107 (Building 7, First Floor).

Jonathan Lethem on Chronic City, Ben Greenman on Please Step Back and Michael Thomas on Man Gone Down: 3:30 p.m., Auditorium Pavilion A (Parking Lot 9).

Josephine Johnson on SS Asteroid: 3:30 p.m., Room 3410 (Building 3, Fourth Floor).

Barbara Levenson on Fatal February, Sharon Potts on In Their Blood and Jeffrey Siger on Murder in Mykonos: 4 p.m., Room 7174/7175 (Building 7, First Floor).

Mary Gordon on Reading Jesus: A Writer's Encounter with the Gospels and David Rosenberg on A Literary Bible: 4 p.m., Batten, Building 2, First Floor, Room 2106.

Melvin Van Peebles, Confessions of an Ex-doofus-ItchyFooted Mutha: 4 p.m., Chapman Conference Center, Building 3, Second Floor, Room 3210.

20 Poems (and a love song) for Miami: 4:30 p.m., Auditorium Pavilion C (Parking Lot 9).

Carolina De Robertis on The Invisible Mountain, Leila Cobo on Tell Me Something True and Elizabeth Nunez on Anna In-Between: 4:30 p.m., Room 7128 (Building 7, First Floor).

Joe Starita on I Am a Man: Chief Standing Bear's Journey for Justice: 4:30 p.m., Room 3208/3209 (Building 3, Second Floor).

Poetry on Strings with Pablo Cano and David Plumb: 4:30 p.m., Prometeo Theater, Building 1, First Floor, Room 1101.

Serie negra iberoamericana: With Roberto Ampuero, JosÎ Luis Muñoz and Paco Ignacio Taibo II; 4:45-6 p.m., Room 3313/3314 (Building 3, Third Floor).

Susie Essman on What Would Susie Say? BullS*t Wisdom About Love, Life and Comedy and Andy Borowitz on Who Moved My Soap: 5 p.m., Chapman Conference Center, Building 3, Second Floor, Room 3210.

Mis hermanos: Fidel y RaÑl-Juanita Castro conversa con MarÏa Antonieta Collins: 6:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m., Chapman Conference Center, Building 3, Second Floor, Room 3210

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