What to do, see, and read

2016

Miami Book Fair

DANA PERINOS

EOIN COLFER

TAKES IRON MAN

TO IRELAND

DOG JUST MIGHT SAVE

AMERICAN POLITICS

DAVE BARRY
DEFENDS FLORIDA

ALAN
THAT TIME
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ACTOR, ACTIVIST, JORGE
CROCKERY KINGPIN
RAMOS
GOT BOOED

COME MEET THESE AMAZING AUTHORS!

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19 LIVE ARTS LAB (BUILDING 1, 1ST FLOOR)
Rebel Heroines
with a Cause
1:002:00 PM

RIDLEY PEARSON
Lock and Key: The Initiation

Photo by Beowulf Sheehan

Dark Secrets
4:005:00 PM

www.amyparrish.com

Photo by Sarah Crowder

Stephanie Girard of
Stephanie Girard Photography

Its a Mystery to Me!

11:00 AM12:00 PM

VICTORIA AVEYARD
Glass Sword

MINDY MCGINNIS
The Female of the Species

KIMBERLY MCCREIGHT
The Outliers

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 20 LIVE ARTS LAB (BUILDING 1, 1ST FLOOR)

Caught Up
in the Magic
2:003:00 PM

M-E GIRARD
Girl Mans Up

Chris Bailey Photography,

Houston, Texas

Hard Choices, High Costs

3:004:00 PM

Photo by Bob Carey

KV Photography

Photo courtesy of M-E Girard

Stuck Between Worlds

1:002:00 PM

LAUREN GIBALDI
Autofocus

MARIA DAHVANA HEADLEY

Aerie

KATHARINE MCGEE
The Thousandth Floor

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 20 WEMBLYS AUTHOR TENT (CHILDRENS ALLEY PLAZA)

Ellen B. Wright

CLAIRE LEGRAND
Foxheart

www.harpercollinschildrens.com

SOMAN CHAINANI
The School for Good and Evil:
The Ever Never Handbook

Growing Up is No Fun
3:304:30 PM

Ellen Augarten

Good vs. Evil/Evil vs. Good

2:003:00 PM

Photo by David J. Martin

Where Magic Meets Destiny

12:001:00 PM

CAMMIE MCGOVERN
Just My Luck

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Highlights of the Fair

A WEEK OF EXTRAORDINARY EVENTS, November 1320

Friday, November 18

From Sunday to Sunday, a lineup of special events feature a stellar

array of authors who hark from myriad arenas: journalism, politics,
literature, history, entertainment, and pop culture.

6 PM

Sunday, November 13

Tuesday, November 15

4 PM

6 pm

Jorge Ramos

Geraldine Brooks

Free (no tickets required), see

p. 20

Tickets, $15, see p. 16

6 PM

Maureen Dowd

Trevor Noah

Tickets, $15, see p. 23

Tickets, $40; includes a copy of

Noahs book, Born a Crime

Wednesday, November 16

8 PM

8 PM

Tavis Smiley
Tickets, $15, see p. 28
Thursday, November 17
6 PM

Annette Gordon-Reed
and Peter S. Onuf

Monday, November 14
6 PM

James Carville
In Were Still Right, Theyre Still
Wrong (Blue Rider Press), the
former lead strategist for Bill
Clinton, now a CNN and FOX
contributor, offers his sharp,
cogent, and witty analysis of
the just-concluded
presidential campaign.
Tickets, $15
8 PM

Alan Cumming
Tickets, $15, see p. 18
Tavis Smiley

In Most Blessed of the Patriarchs: Thomas Jefferson and

the Empire of the Imagination,
the Pulitzer Prizewinning
author of The Hemingses of
Monticello teams up with Onuf
to offer a revealing portrait of
one of historys most enigmatic
and towering figures.
Tickets, $15

8 PM

Jeffrey Toobin
Bestsellers by Toobin, an
expert on politics, media, and
the law, include The Nine,
The Oath, Too Close to Call,
A Vast Conspiracy, and The
Run of His Life, which was
adapted into the critically acclaimed FX series The People
v. O.J. Simpson. His newest
book, American Heiress: The
Wild Saga of the Kidnapping,
Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst
(Doubleday), is the definitive
account of the kidnapping and
trial that defined the 1970s.
Tickets, $15

National Book Awards

Winners and Finalists
Its an honor just to be
nominated. Perhaps this is a
clich, but its certainly true
for the exceptionally talented
group of writers named finalists
or longlisted for the National
Book Award. Again this year,
the fair is host to more than
20 of these esteemed authors,
who will gather for a special
program on Friday evening, just
two days after the winners are
announced. Among the finalists
attending are novelists Colson
Whitehead, Karan Mahajan,
Chris Bachelder, and the
poets Rita Dove, Peter Gizzi,
Jay Hopler, and Somaz Sharif.
Nonfiction authors include the
finalists Arlie Russell Hochschild, Ibram X. Kendi, and
Andrs Resendez.
Tickets: $15

Bernie Sanders
Ambient Photography

Saturday, November 19
6:30 PM

Bernie Sanders
The site of all evening
programs: Chapman
Conference Center (Building 3,
2nd floor, Room 3210),
300 NE Second Ave.
For ticketing information, go to
miamibookfair.com.

Sanderss presentation of his

book, Our Revolution: A Future
to Believe In, will be streamed
live to Miami Dade Colleges
Wolfson Auditorium (Room
1261, Building 1, 2nd floor)
and online at miamibookfair.com.
For further information, refer to
the Miami Book Fair Guide.

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WHATS INSIDE
3 Highlights of the Fair: A Week of
Extraordinary Events
4 Weekend Closeup: Events Not to be Missed
6 Chatting with Miami Book Fair Cofounder Mitchell
Kaplan and Codirector Lissette Mendez
8 Best. Interview. Ever. With Mr. Florida, Dave Barry
10 Amor Towles, Affinity Konar, and
Nathan Hill Talk about Lives
12 Dana Perino Says Get a Dog!
14 Whats Cookin? Recipes and More from the
Kitchen Stadium
16 Geraldine Brooks is Fascinated by King David
17 Eoin Colfer Throws Down the Gauntlet
18 Alan Cumming is Open to Possibilities

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CELEBRATE THE CARIBBEAN!

Comics and graphic novels are

front and center at Destination
Comics. On Saturday, the Pulitzer Prizewinning master of the
graphic novel form, Art Spiegelman, leads a conversation with
the editorial director at Abrams
ComicArts, Charles Kochman,
about Si Lewens wordless epic,
Parade: An Artists Odyssey. On
Sunday, Spiegelman returns
for a special edition of WPRSs
podcast and interview series
on the working lives of creative
people. He joins host Joseph
Lapin, along with Gene Luen
Yang, the first graphic novelist
nominated for a National Book
Award and the 2016 National
Ambassador for Young Peoples
Literature, and Trina Robbins,
editor of The Complete Wimmens Comix anthology. Also
on Sunday, award-winning cartoonist Keith Knight presents
his world-renowned slide show,
They Shoot Black People, Dont
They? A Cartoonists Look at
Police Brutality in the U.S.

This year the Miami Book Fair

launches ReadCaribbean,
a vibrant program offering a
spectrum of Caribbean-themed
events, author readings, and
panel discussions, some of
which will be presented in
Creole (with simultaneous
translation into English).
Throughout the weekend, vast
perspectives of Caribbean
literature will be explored in
such programs as The Caribbean Short Story: Continuity,
Innovation and Varied Voices;
Koze Mande Chz: Dyalg
Sou Literati Kontanporen Ayiti/
Conversations on Contemporary Haitian Literature; Body
Politics: Three Caribbean
Women, a Poetry Reading;
and Kreyl Pale, Kreyl Konprann! Yon Deba Avk Manm
Akademi Kreyl/State of the
Kreyl Union: A Discussion
with Members of the Kreyl
Academy. And vodou, too,
with Ti Koze Sou Vodou/Explorations of Vodou.
Liz Hartman

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20 Jorge Ramos Takes a Stand

21 Se Habla Espaol: Spanish Programmings
Top Events
23 Maureen Dowd Wants Wine
24 Stephanie Danler, Tim Murphy, and
Jacqueline Woodson on the Big Apple
26 Trevor Noah Was Born a Crime
28 Tavis Smiley Smiles on the King of Pop
29 Book Bonanza for Kids of All Ages

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Associate Publisher Joe Murray, Editor Liz Hartman, Managing Editor
Daniel Berchenko, Copy Editor Sonia Robbins, Contributing Writers
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By the Community, for the Community

A few words with Miami Book Fair cofounder Mitchell Kaplan
and codirector Lissette Mendez
echoes Kaplans sentiments about an all-inclusive festival of
Kaplan: Still Starstruck
books and culture. I dont like events with even the slightest
One might think that by now, Books & Books owner Mitchell
elitist attitude, she says, explaining that the Miami Book Fair
Kaplan would have adopted a dispassionate stance toward
is an event that makes everyone in this community feel comthe book fair that he cofounded 34 years ago with Eduardo J.
fortable. It doesnt just belong to the subset that are artistic or
Padrn, now president of Miami Dade College; other indepenintellectual.
dent bookstore owners; and the Miami-Dade Public Library

A Cuban who grew up in what she describes as reduced
System. In fact, its quite the opposite. Looking back over the
circumstances, Mendez is adamant about creating a cultural
years at the roster of authors that the fair has hostedfrom
community in which the barrier to participate is as low as it can
James Baldwin to this years lineup including Colson Whitebe. That not only applies to having something for everyone,
head (one of PWs Best Books of 2016 authors)Kaplan finds
but being keenly aware of costs. She proudly points out that
it astonishing. As a reader and a lover of books and authors, I
most events are free, the street
get starstruck, he says.
fair is only $8 and most week From the first year, accordnight programs are only $15.
ing to Kaplan, the fair was a
But it is the variety and
success, attracting approxidepth of programming that
mately 50,000 people over
makes Mendez most animated.
the course of two days. Now,
All new this year is ReadCathe fair spans eight days and
ribbean, a program devoted to
attracts hundreds of thousands
literature of the myriad counof people. Kaplan believes
tries and cultures that make up
that the long-term success of
the Caribbean. Everyone in
the fair is based on it being an
Miami has some sort of foot in
event that is by the commuthe Caribbean, says Mendez.
nity and for the community,
While past fairs have featured
he says. We always wanted it
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some Caribbean authors and
to be the big thing in which all
books, this years goes further, featuring not only Spanishof Miami could participate. So what weve done, is made sure
speaking authors of the Caribbean but Creole as well.
its extremely inclusive of authors of all kinds, which attracts
Also new this year is the Kitchen Stadium, a newly built,
audiences of all kinds reflecting the diversity of Miami and
outdoor structure that can accommodate up to 250 people. It
South Floridaand thats what very exciting to me.
will host cooking demonstrations and cookbook authors.
The fair has been host to countless luminaries of literature
Mendez is equally enthusiastic about long-standing
and culture, and Kaplan has mingled with most of them, but
programs that just keep on growing, such as the expansive
there are a few on his wish list who remain elusive. They
childrens and educational activities that this year will connect
include some enigmatic and rarely seen writers, such as the Pumore than 9,000 students with authors in schools and other
litzer Prizewinning poet Mary Oliver; Philip Roth, recipient of
venues throughout the fair. And as a huge fan of comics and
just about every major literary award; Japanese writer Haruki
graphic novels, she takes personal pride in the continuing
Murakami; and Elena Ferrante, whose alleged true identity was
growth of the fairs offerings in that category.
just recently revealed but remains unconfirmed. They would
Mendez doesnt care whether a book is high-brow or lowbe amazing, the still-starstruck Kaplan says wistfully.
brow; written in Spanish, English, or Creole; illustrated or not;
prose or poetry. What she is emphatic about is the mission: to
Mendez: Read More Books!
encourage everyone to read more books, she says.
Lissette Mendez, who is director of programs and codirector
of the fair, along with Delia Lopez, director of operations,
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Amid a great deal of laughter, PW caught up with Pulitzer Prizewinning author

and columnist Dave Barry in his Coral Gables, Fla., office to ask him about his latest
book, Best. State. Ever. A Florida Man Defends His Homeland (Putnam), in
which he opines about death before yielding and other favorite state traits.

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Interview.
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Michelle Kaufman

Youve lived in Florida for

more than three decades.
Why did you decide to
turn your full attention to
the state now?
Floridas bad reputation
got worse during the 2000
presidential election, where
we basically showed we
were not competent to be a
United State. Everybody got
the impression Florida was
just a bunch of idiotswhich
theres some truth tobut
my argument in the book is,
Yes, there are a lot of idiots
here, but many of them came
from your state. So were
sort of like the Ellis Island
for idiots. Were taking a hit
down here, and Im tired
of being beat up for it, so it
was time to write this book.

What are the must-see

areas of Florida for firsttime visitors?
Everybody goes to Disney
World, so Ill put that in
there, although heres a
little tip, something we
locals have learned: if you
want to save time, just go
up and throw your money
over the wall; its the same
overall effect without a lot
of the waiting in line. You
should also see Miami. You
shouldnt drive in Miami,
because everyone here is
driving according to the
laws of his or her individual
country of origin.
You mentioned that
people shouldnt drive in
Miami. Why is that?
Its not a pretty thing. You
have this combination of

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people from other countries

whose concept of what to do
at a stop sign, for example,
is a little different from maybe
what you were told. And
nobody ever wants to yield
to anybody; Death before
yielding is the motto of
south Florida. And then you
have retirees. They drive by
what I call the Seeing-Eye
Wife System. Its a couple
thats been driving together
for 50 years, and the man
drives. Why? Because the
man drives, dammit! And
the man can no longer see.
So he has outsourced the
seeing to his wife, who yells,
Its a yellow arrow. Go
right! I have been in cars
driven by this system, and
its terrifying!

In closing, what do you

think about the Miami
Book Fair?
Mitchell Kaplan at Books &
Books, which is an incredible independent bookstore,
has built a really great reading community down here.
Authors see when they get
herethe crowds are fantastic, the people are really
enthusiastic and interested.
I think the Miami Book Fair
is the best book fair in the
country.
Hilary S. Kayle

An Afternoon with Dave Barry

Saturday, November 19,
3:304:30 p.m.
Chapman Conference Center
(Building 3, 2nd floor,
Room 3210)

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Lives: A Reading from Three Novels

In Amor Towless A Gentleman in Moscow (Viking), a man is sentenced, in the 1920s, to spend
the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel. Set in 1944, Affinity Konars Mischling (Little, Brown)
is the story of twin sisters in Auschwitz, who take refuge in their identical natures, comforting
themselves with the private language and shared games of their childhood. In Nathan Hills
debut, The Nix (Knopf), a stalled writers mother commits a crime that sends him on a journey
that will uncover long-buried secrets about the woman he thought he knew. PW posed the same
three questions to each of them.
Please tell us something about
your book that were not going to
discover by reading book reviews
or marketing materials.
AT: A Gentleman in Moscow has a
somewhat unusual structure. From
the day of the Counts house arrest,
the chapters advance by a doubling
principal depicting the events one day
after his arrest, two days after, five
days, ten days, three weeks, six weeks,
three months, six months, one year,
two years, four years, eight years, and
sixteen years later to the day. At this
midpoint, a halving principal is initiated with the narrative leaping to eight
years later, four years, two yearsright
down to ten days, five days, two days,
one day. Hopefully, the mathematical
aspect of the books form is virtually
invisible to readers.
Another note of interest? Having
already spoken to many fans of Rules
of Civility (Towless first novel, Viking,
2011) who have also read A Gentleman
in Moscow, virtually none have noticed
that a character from the former appears in the latter.
AK: I wrote the book in lots of different places, but I always had a specific
photograph of Eva Mozes Kor and
Miriam Mozes Zeiger [real sisters who
inspired the novel], with their family,
to look at as I wrote. Its a picture
that they retrieved from their empty
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home after they returned from

Auschwitz. The thought of
them finding the last remaining
portrait of the family theyd
lost just broke me. And looking
at [other] pictures of the two
as grown women, telling the
world what Mengele had done,
felt restorative. Moving between these two sensesone of
being broken and one of being
restoredwas very necessary to
the process of this book.
NH: The books main character, Samuel, is 11 years old
when his mother suddenly
abandons the family. This has
led many readers to wonder
about my own mother. The
truth is that my mother is
a wonderful person who never left
the family, but my family did move
around quite a lot when I was a kid...
which, for a child, feels a lot like being
abandoned: suddenly everyone you
know is gone. So a lot of Samuels
loneliness is inspired by my own
experiences of alienation and isolation, repeatedly being the new kid
at school.
How much of your own life experience do you bring into your
fiction? Whator whorepresents
a bit of you in your new novel?

Affinity Konar

Gariela Michanie

AT: None of the novels central characters are based on historical figures,
or on people that I have known. I have
pickpocketed my own life for loose
change to include in the book. When
I was a boy of 10, for instance, I threw
a bottle with a note into the Atlantic
Ocean at summers end [on vacation].
When we got home a few weeks later,
there was a letter waiting for me on
New York Times stationery. It turned
out that my bottle had been found
by Harrison Salisbury, a managing
editor of the Times and the creator of
its op-ed page. He and I corresponded

for many years. Salisbury was also the

Moscow bureau chief for the Times
from 1949 to 1954. A few colorful details in A Gentleman in Moscow spring
from his memoirs; he makes a cameo
late in the novel; and his hat and coat
end up playing a critical role in the
storys denouement.
AK: If there is a real bit of me to be
found in the book, it is in my obsessions, many of which are expressed
through Stasha. My favorite stories
as a kid were about Nazi hunters and

university professor and online gamer

(Ive been both those things). Sometimes the connection is more oblique.
What are you hearing from your
readers about what they like
mostand leastabout your novel?
AT: Readers relate to very different
aspects of the book, but they often
express their appreciation for the
Counts personality as the richness of
life that he discovers within the confines of the hotel. Im glad to say that
the most common complaint I receive
is that the book is over.

Ive heard readers say that they

become attached to Pearl and Stasha,
and invested in a hope for their
reunion, a hope that propels them
through the book and makes it a driven sort of read. I never imagined that
the book could be propulsive, because
in so many ways, it is a meditation on
grief. The bond between the two girls
truly moves people, and Im always
so happy and startled to hear that Im
not the only one who finds them so
compelling and lovable.

Nathan Hill Michael Lionstar

Amor Towles David Jacobs

vengeance; Simon Wiesenthal was

my childhood hero. I was obsessed
with the maneuvers of the Jewish
underground, with secret codes and
resistance fighters. I grew up with a
real fixation on injusticeMengele was
my utmost preoccupation.
NH: I think all the characters are me
to some degree, that is, theres a core
emotional truth to all of them that
reflects things Ive felt in my own life.
Sometimes theyre more transparently
autobiographical, as is the case with
Samuel, the main character, who is a

AK: Ive heard that Part One is

unbearable to read. I sympathize with
readers who feel this way. I spent
years away from Part One, and when
I revisited it, I was overwhelmed by its
pain, almost dizzied. I can only think
that the near-total immersion in the
subject, and my own relative isolation,
enabled me to write those passages,
because when I began living a normal
life again, one distanced from the photographs and the testimonies, those
chapters became far harder for me to
read. So I appreciate and understand
this reaction.

NH: People are particularly enjoying

the humor. On the flip side, I think
a lot of folks are intimidated by the
length. But I was hoping the humor
would be a good antidote for the
lengthits easy to read 600 pages
when those pages are, for the most
part, kinda funny.
Liz Hartman

Lives: A Reading from Three Novels

Sunday, November 20, 1011 a.m.
Auditorium (Building 1, 2nd floor,
Room 1261)

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How to Reach Across the Aisle?

Get a Dog
When Dana Perino, former press secretary to George W. Bush, Fox News contributor, and cohost of Foxs The Five, was a child, she didnt dream of working
in the White House or being a TV star, she dreamed of being an author. While
ordinary folks might have trouble achieving just one of these ambitions, Perino
has accomplished all of themand the latter twice. This falls publication of Let
Me Tell You About Jasper... How My Best Friend Became Americas Dog
comes only a year and a half after her #1 New York Times bestseller, And the
Good News Is....

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hen Perino
was growing
up in rural
Colorado, her mother would
drive her the long distance
to the nearest library where
the rule to check out a
maximum of seven books
was strictly enforced. My
mother would get frustrated
because I would finish two
of the books before we got
home, Perino says. She also
recalls a difficult day decades
later when, upon her parents divorce, she and her
sister returned home on a
frigid day to clear out their
belongings. Out of your
lifetime, what do you take?
she asks. Perino immediately
grabbed a very worn copy of
a childrens book with carrots and bunny rabbits on its
cover entitled If I Were... Its
first chapter was If I Were a
Dog... Now I have my dog

book that I always wanted to

write, she says.
Jasper, the Viszla that is
the subject of the book and
the center of Perinos world,
is known to millions of fans
as Americas dog. Although
he occasionally makes an
appearance on The Five,
always wearing a tie, it is the
hilarious photoseach one a
Photoshop gemcreated by
Perinos anonymous Twitter
friend that made Jasper a
media star.
Nearly a third of the book
is dedicated to these photos:
Jasper the golfer, Jasper on
the cover of Time magazine,
Jasper taking a selfie, but the
other two-thirds are stories
of how Jasper has transformed the life of Jaspers
mom and his dad, Peter.
Dogs are a great equalizer, Perino says, even
during what was, as she

describes, a caustic and vitriolic, never-ending election

season. She continues, If
you feel that you cant talk
to anybody at a party, or go
on Facebook because youre
going to get into a fight with
one of your friends, the safe
place for most of us to talk
about is our pets, and for
many of us its dogs. She
points to her own friendship with Donna Brazile, a
strategist for the Democratic
National Committee. She
and I might disagree about
politics or policy, but the
first thing we always ask
each other is about our
dogs, Jasper and Chip.
Perino also credits Jasper
with easing her adjustment
to Manhattan, which she
initially found overwhelming. Taking advantage of the
6 to 9 a.m. hours during
which Central Park is a

leash-free dog park has made

the space her favorite place
to socialize in the city, she
says. Most people at the
park first think of me as
Jaspers mom, not someone
in politics or TV. Its such
a special place and special
time of day. People respect
that so much that nobody
wants to ruin it by talking
about politics.
Jasper, a heretofore
registered Republican as appalled as the rest of us at the
political, um, dogfight, will be
registering as an Independent
this year, Perino reports.
Liz Hartman
Good News: A Morning with
Dana Perino
Sunday, November 20,
10:3011:30 a.m.
Chapman Conference Center
(Building 3, 2nd floor,
Room 3210)

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Whats Cookin?
A lot! During the street fair on Saturday and Sunday, the Kitchen
Stadium hosts a smorgasbord of cooking demos and panel discussions
with chefs and authors of an array of cookbooks. Whether youre a
vegan, oyster freak, spice maniac, chocoholic, or all-round foodie, youll
find something to satisfy your cookbook hunger all weekend.

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Shrimp sautee, from Shrimp Country

Reprinted by permission of the
University Press of Florida

Welcome to Kitchen Stadium!

Food, cookbooks, and cooking
demos have long been a part of
the fair, but brand new this year
is Kitchen Stadium, a just-built
(temporary) structure that seats
250 people with a covered,
elevated area for chefs and
cookbook authors to discuss
their culinary philosophies, and
demonstrate their recipes. Over
the course of the weekend (Dec.
19-20), the myriad cuisines
from local Florida coastlines to
continents far away, will sweep

Using Brownie Batter (Kyle).

The originator of the awardwinning treat Brownie Brittle
shares recipes and tips that
ingeniously use brownie batter
to reinvent well-loved desserts.
The former accountant turned
brownie expert and entrepreneur will have your mouth
watering with demos of her
favoritesincluding the recipe
that started it all: her grandmothers rich fudgy brownie
recipe.

joins the New Yorkers Ben

Greenman, coauthor of Something to Food About: Exploring
Creativity with Innovative Chefs
(Clarkson Potter), for a culinary
conversation.
Lakshmis lavishly illustrated
encyclopedia is an A-to-Z
compendium of spices, herbs,
salts, and peppers from every
corner of the Earth. Inspired by
her travels all over the globe,
Lakshmi includes history,
descriptions, and cooking suggestions for ingredients from
the most humble herb to exotic
seeds and chilies.
Something to Food About is
something else entirely. Greenman explores the world of food
by talking with great chefs. The
conversation between Lakshmi
and Greenman will be food for
all manner of thoughtfood
as history, food as culture, and
food as creativity.
Sunday
4 pm

Butternut squash, pear, and fennel soup with fennel oil and blue cheese, from Cooking with
the Muse: A Sumptuous Gathering of Seasonal Recipes, Culinary Poetry, and Literary Fare

you away on a tasty tour of the

world. Here are some dont miss
events and an excerpt from
Shrimp Country by Anna Marlis
Burgard (Univ. of Florida), a
cookbook that celebrates an essential ingredient of the cuisine
of our Southern Coasts.
Saturday
2:30 pm

Butter and Chocolate: A

(Sweet) Cooking Demo
Chocoholics and brownie fans
will savor Brownie Queen
Sheila G. Mains cookbook,
Sheila Gs Butter & Chocolate:
101 Creative Sweets and Treats

3:30 pm

Delicious Dish: Padma

Lakshmi and Ben Greenman in Conversation
Top Chef star Padma Lakshmi,
whose newest book is The
Encyclopedia of Spices and
Herbs: An Essential Guide to
the Flavors of the World (Ecco),

Delicious Dish: Culinary

Lore from Land and Sea,
with Recipes
Shrimp Country author Burgard
joins chef Myra Kornfield and
poet Stephen Massimilla, the
authors of Cooking with the
Muse (Tupelo), a book that
presents food with a side of
poetry. Burgard will share
cooking lore from the South,
and Kornfield and Massimilla
will expound on recipes and
culinary poetry, such as John
Miltons ode to fennel from Paradise Lost: A savoury odour
blown,/ Grateful to appetite,
more/ Pleased my sense/ Than
smell of sweetest Fennel.
Liz Hartman

Shrimp n Gravy
Anna Marlis Burgard traveled
all over the southern coast of
the U.S. gathering authentic
recipes for Shrimp Country
(Univ. Press of Florida). Shrimp
n gravy is the most common
recipe that trawler captains
shared with Burgard during
her coastal travels. Its what
they prepare out on the water
and for their families at home,
she says. Here is Capt. Barry
Woodss recipestraight from
his mouthwhile aboard
his Fernandina Beach, Fla.,
trawler, Island Girl:
Coat your shrimp in nothin
but flourfry em in enough
peanut oil just to turn em over
til theyre brown, and keep
the dribblins. Fry up salt pork,
cut up in little bitsy pieces,
with veggies in the dribblins.
Butters always a little bit in
there, and this n that, and
Worcestershire sauce. Fry two
cut-up links of sausage in it
all, then add the shrimp back
in, and put it on some rice.
The only vegetables I use are
onions, bell pepper, and celery.
Of course Cajuns cook theirs
up with boudin, but you can
use different sausage, any kind
you like. Just have to balance it
all so you taste the shrimpnot
too much rice or green pepper
or celery. Thisll make your
tongue slap your brains out.

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Everything Happens
to King David

AN UNMISSABLE NOVEL
that tugs on your heartstrings . . .
A psychological handbook for the divorced,
the abandoned, and the lonesome.
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 5:456:45 PM

While Geraldine Brooks built her career as a roving journalist, covering global hotspots like the Middle East and the
Balkans, she is also renowned as a fiction writer who has
reached into the past to write novels like the Year of Wonders,
set in 1660s England, and March, a Civil War novel inspired
by Little Women. Brookss latest, The Secret Chord (Viking),
goes back much, much further, to biblical times.
It got a little out of hand, Brooks admits with a laugh,
acknowledging that it was difficult to write about King David
when the only contemporary
reference to him, aside from
the Bible, is an inscription on
a stone. But the lack of source
material didnt hold her back:
Brooks says she did a lot of
field research, literally. Not
only did she travel to Israel,
visiting places associated
with David and boning up
in the archives on what daily
life was like in biblical times,
but she and her son even
herded sheep, as David did,
before the battle with Goliath
catapulted him to fame and
fortune. She also consulted
with an Israeli military strategist on how David conquered
Jerusalem. And because spoken Hebrew during biblical
times was abrupt, rather than
Randi Baird
flowery, like the King James
version of the Bible, with a tribal, consonant type of sound,
thats how she wrote the dialogue.
Brooks is fascinated with King David because his story
runs the gamut: theres love and loss, triumph and despair,
victory and defeat. Everything happens to him, she says.
Its a human story. There are no miracles here. Although
she admits that King David had some serious personal issues,
such as sending Bathshebas husband to the front lines so
that hed be killed, Brooks adds that he must have been quite
the charmer. He inspired loyalty in men and women alike.
People forgave him even when he did terrible things, like
stealing another mans wife.
Claire Kirch

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An Evening with Geraldine Brooks

Tuesday, November 15, 67 p.m.
Chapman Conference Center (Building 3, 2nd floor, Room 3210)
Tickets: $15

Strange New Worlds

For Eoin Colfer, bestselling author of (among other things)
the Artemis Fowl middle grade series, the decision to leave
behind his own creations for a time and write an adventure
set in the Marvel comics universe was a relatively easy one.
If someone calls you up and says, Hey, do you want to
write a book about Iron Man? its very hard to say no to
that. Particularly for a lifelong comics fan like Colfer, who
grew up in the 1970s, during what he describes as a golden
age of comics.
You had people like Jack Kirby [one of Iron Mans
designers] working, and you had also the Eerie comics,
the Creepy comics, Vampirella, all this amazing artwork
they were a huge part of my adolescence. There was one
company, though, whose books he always favored. I was a
Marvel guy [because] I always felt the Marvel characters had
problems. You know they really had difficulties. Which made
them, Colfer continues, relatable. Peter Parker [Spider Man],
for example, he was trying to be a superhero, but he had to
do his homework. He wasnt flashy, he had trouble with his
girlfriend, and his Aunt May, he had to make sure she never
saw the costume.
Marvel gave Colfer a free hand on The Gauntlets plot,
which centers around an international eco-summit set in
Ireland, and similar latitude when it came to the superhero
millions know so well from the movies. While you will definitely recognize the character Tony Stark, the wisecracking
billionaire, you definitely learn a little bit more. Ive given him
a soft heart.
And not just a soft heart. In
The Gauntlet, Tony Stark gets
what Colfer refers to as the
Dublin treatment.
In Ireland we treat celebrities very different than theyre
treated in other parts of the
world, Colfer says. For example, I have seen Bono go in
and have a cup of coffee, and
everybody leaves him alone.
No one would go and talk to
him. In fact, the more famous
you are, the less respect you
get, because the Irish people in general feel its their duty to
keep you grounded. In the novel Ive paired Tony Stark with
an Irish detective, who has a staggering lack of respect for
Tony and all his achievements.

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Francis Hills

Open to Possibilities
Alan Cumming, the award-winning film/stage/TV star and activist, brings the
reader into his world in You Gotta Get Bigger Dreams: My Life in Stories and
Pictures (Rizzoli), a collection of 45 essays that recount his adventures and
misadventures, brought to life by his personal, entertaining, and sometimes startling
photographs. PW caught up with him between his multitude of eclectic endeavors.

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This is your third book. One was a novel; one was an

intense memoir. This is something entirely different.
What inspired it?
The photographs. I wanted to show my life in a way that
wasnt predictable, with literal and figurative snapshots. Its
been a long time in the making, but the years have given me
objectivity. When I put photographs away, I write a little
story to go with each photo. I took that idea and expanded
upon it. I love the duality of photos, how they can obfuscate
or distort what was actually happening in the moment. That
was what really intrigued me.

I never thought crockery

would be in my brand.
So far, youre an actor, singer, dancer, artist, author,
activist, photographer, producer, director, deejay, cabaret
artist. Where does this deep well of creativity come from?
When you are open to possibility, its amazing what happens
to you. Ive been doing my Club Cumming parties where I
deejay. Someone suggested I do Club Cumming soup mugs. I
never thought crockery would be in my brand, but now you
can get Club Cumming dishes and glasses. I really like all that.

Who are your favorite authors?

It changes for me. Im sort of like a magpie in terms of my
interest. Right now I am reading a book called Whiskey Galore
by Compton Mackenzie, a 1930s Highland Scotland caper. I
was just in the Hebrides in Scotland where [the story] takes
place. I like reading things about the places I am. Im also
really fond of Margaret Atwood. I find her so informative.
Shes made me much more aware of the difference between
being a man and a woman in this world. And when I am
having a hard time, I turn to books to help me see [that] I am
not alone. I found You Can Heal Your Life by Louise Hay very
constructive. Or Ill reread a novel like Catcher in the Rye, so I
see that there is someone out there who understands me and
that it is not going to be forever.
Anything youd like to say to the booksellers who will
be coming to see you?
Buy my book! I need to finish my house!
Beth Levine

An Evening with Alan Cumming

Monday, November 14, 89 p.m.
Chapman Conference Center, (Building 3, 2nd floor, Room 3210)

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30 Years of
Jorge Ramos

mmy Awardwinning newsman Jorge

Ramos looks back at 30 years as an anchor on Univision in his latest book, Take
a Stand: Lessons from Rebels (Celebra).

You have interviewed

leaders from every corner of the globe. What
have these interviews
contributed to you as
a journalist?
The most important
lesson I have learned
is that sometimes you
have to take a stand.
When it comes to
racism, discrimination,
or violation of human
rights, you must make
a stand. When you are
faced with an ethical
or moral dilemma,
Anibal Maestro
you should take a
stand.Neutrality is not an option. Also, now that I have more
experience and courage, I realize that I should have asked the
questions as if it were my last interview with that person. This
approach gives you more freedom, and it allows the interview
to be much more open.

When it comes to racism,

discrimination, or violation
of human rights, you must
make a stand. Neutrality is
not an option.
Often journalists know where they want an interview
to go, but at times the interview goes in a very different and sometimes surprising direction. Has this
happened to you?
Absolutely! One was with Hugo Chavez. He told me that
he would give me an interview in Caracas, but he asked me
to follow him to the border between Venezuela and Colombia, where he had a group of supporters. Every time I asked
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a question, I was booed. Chavez was very smart and knew

how to manipulate the media.
My last interview with President Barack Obama also
took an unexpected turn. He wanted to talk about how he
had granted immigration to thousands of students through
the Dreamers program, but I wanted to talk about the
more than 2.5 million people he has deported. It was a very
tense interview.
Who would you like to interview whom you havent
been able to?
I am agnostic, but I would like to interview Pope Francis
and the Dalai Lama. I dont know what happens after we
die, and I would like to pick their brains. Who better than
them to share with us their thoughts on the afterlife?

Ol! Spanish Language

Programs at the Fair
Throughout the weekend,
the Ibero-American Authors
program boasts a varied and
vibrant lineup of authors and
panels. Heres a glimpse:
Saturday
11:30 am

La memoria escrita:
Roberto Canessa,
Claudia Palacios, and
Manuel C. Daz Share
Their Memories

Leylha Ahuile

Uruguayan pediatric oncologist

Roberto Canessa discusses his
book, Tena que sobrevivir/I
Had to Survive (Atria Espaol). Claudia Palacios, the
Colombian journalist and CNN
presenter, presents Perdonar

An Evening with Mexican Journalist Jorge Ramos

In Spanish with translation into English
Sunday, November 13, 45 p.m.
Chapman Center (Building 3, 2nd floor, Room 3209)

lo imperdonable/Forgive the
Unforgivable (Planeta), and
Cuban-American writer Manuel
C. Daz, shares his travel stories
in De Cdiz a Normanda/From

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Cadiz to Normandy (Ediciones

Universal). Building 8, 5th floor,
Room 8525.

Considerable
Passerby and Other Stories
(Editorial Silueta). Building 8,
5th floor, Room 8503)

12 pm

Narrar y ficcionar la
realidad/Writing and
Retelling the Reality
Two Cuban-Americans and
one Argentinian-American
writer talk about their lives as
Latinos. Writer, journalist, and
photographer Isabel Garca
Cintas presents her short story
collection, La casa vieja y otros
relatos/The Old House and
Other Stories (Amancay). Carmen Duarte shares her novel
of a young illegal immigrant
in El inevitable rumbo de la
brjula/The Unavoidable Heading of the Compass, and the
poet, video artist, and blogger
Ernesto Gonzle (aka Ernesto
G.) talks about El transente
considerable y otros relatos/The

6 pm

Sunday

Encuentro con Julia

Navarro/An afternoon
with Spanish Author
Julia Navarro

6:30 pm

Award-winning Spanish journalist

and bestselling novelist Julia
Navarro discusses her book,
Historia de un canalla/Story of
a Sociopath (Vintage Espaol).
Building 8, 5th floor, Room 8503.

David Unger

3 pm

Tarde de thrillers/New
Thrillers with Vladimir
Hernndez (Indomito),
David Unger (El Manipulador), and H.L. Guerra
(Tringulo de Espas)
This trio of authors share their
new page-turning adventures
from Habana to Guatemala and
on to Stockholm. Building 8,
5th floor, Room 8503

6:30 pm

Una tarde con Jaime

Bayly/Peruvian Journalist and Author Jaime
Bayly Presents his New
Novel
Jaime Bayly, winner of three
Emmy awards and author of 16
novels, shares his latest novel,
El nio terrible y la escritora
maldita/The Terrible Child and
the Bloody Writer (Vintage
Espaol). Auditorium, Building
1, 2nd floor, Room 1261.

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Cita con Laura Esquivel

Mexican/Author Laura
Esquivel on her New
Novela and her Work
Closing the Ibero-American
programming with a bang will
be Laura Esquivel, the internationally renowned author of
Como agua para chocolate/Like
Water for Chocolate, Esquivel
will present her new novel, El
diario de Tita/Pierced by the
Sun (AmazonCrossing), a tale
of murder and redemption.
Auditorium, Building 1, 2nd
floor, Room 1261,
Leylha Ahuile

Post Election
Dowd Dishes

aureen Dowd, the New York Times op-ed

columnist, is renowned for her incendiary political commentary. Her latest
collection of essays is The Year of Voting Dangerously:
The Derangement of American Politics.

You wrote that in 1992 you had a pleasant dinner with

Hillary Clinton. But it sounds like your relationship
with her went downhill from there. Any plans, now
that the election is over, to have a drink together, and
let bygones be bygones?
I would love to have another glass of wine with Hillary Clinton.
But the truth is, I dont want to pal around with pols. I see my
role not as an ideological booster, coming from the left or right,
but as a watchdog. I would rather be an advocate for voters,
pulling back the curtain to show how power warps the men
and women who make the lifeand-death decisions, or how they
boldly rise to the occasion.
How and why did you become
what Jon Favreau once called
you, the Trump Whisperer?
I went with Trump to Miami in
1999 on his crazy plane stocked
with fake French impressionist
paintings and junk food when
he made his first foray into
presidential politics. I was doing
periodic interviews with Trump
after he got in the race and
had the chance to plumb his
thinking. My Trump-whispering days may be over, though,
because he saw me critiquing him on CNN and tweeted out
that I was crazy, wacky, and a neurotic dope.
I know you wont tell me whom youre voting for. But
you attended both conventionswhich one did you
enjoy more and why?
The Republican convention was more mesmerizing because
they literally seemed to be making it up as they went along.
Claire Kirch

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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19

WILLIAM RITTER

author of the Jackaby series

Panel with Sara Shepard, Maggie Thrash,
and Geoffrey Philp
Noon, Live Arts Lab (Building 1, 1st Floor)

ED TARKINGTON

author of Only Love Can Break Your Heart

with J. R. Thornton
and Lucas Mann
12:30 p.m., Building 8, Room 8303

GAYLE FORMAN

author of Leave Me
Panel with Maria Semple
and Emily Giffin
2:00 p.m., Building 1, Auditorium

ADAM SHAUGHNESSY

author of the Unbelievable FIB series

Panel withGeorge OConnor,
Margaret Dilloway, and Imam Baksh
2:00 p.m., Live Arts Lab (Building 1, 1st Floor)

CAROLINE LEAVITT

author of Cruel Beautiful World

Panel with with Susan Carol McCarthy
and Janis Cooke Newman
2:00 p.m., Building 8, Room 8303
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 20

KAITLYN GREENIDGE

author of We Love You, Charlie Freeman

Panel with Nicole Dennis-Benn
and Ali Eteraz
11:00 a.m., Building 8, Room 8303

LARRY OLMSTED

author of Real Food / Fake Food

Panel with with Mark Kurlansky
and Steven Johnson
11:00 a.m., Batten, Room 2106

KELLY BARNHILL

author of The Girl Who Drank the Moon

Panel with with Robert Beatty
and Claire LeGrand
Noon, Wemblys Author Tent
(Childrens Alley Plaza)

ELAINE KHOSROVA
An Evening with Maureen Dowd
Tuesday, November 15, 89 p.m.
Chapman Center (Building 3, 2nd floor, Room 3210)
Tickets $15

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with Rowan Jacobsen
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N.Y.C.: Tales of the City

A Reading from Three Novels
In Stephanie Danlers debut novel, Sweetbitter (Knopf), a young woman lands a job as a back
waiter at a celebrated downtown Manhattan restaurant and starts to navigate the chaotic,
enchanting, punishing, and privileged life she has chosen, as well as the remorseless and luminous city around her. Tim Murphys Christodora (Grove) follows a diverse set of characters
whose fates intertwine in a historic building in Manhattans East Village. Jacqueline Woodsons
Another Brooklyn (Amistad) illuminates the formative time when childhood gives way to
adulthood and renders a powerful, indelible, and fleeting friendship that united four young lives.

Please tell us something about

your book that were not going to
discover by reading book reviews
or marketing materials.
SD: Great question. Very rarely does a
reader see that the plot of Sweetbitter is
modeled after the plots of two novels
by Henry James: Portrait of a Lady
and The Ambassadors. While writing I
saw Sweetbitter as a modern twist on a
very old story, the loss of innocence.
The quintessential American seeker,
young and optimistic, receives a
sentimental education from two Old
World souls: mysterious, seductive,
and manipulative. Isabel Archer (from
Portrait) is one of the greatest literary
figuresshes complicated, brutally

TM: I originally thought

I would write a collection
of loosely linked short
stories, but the connections just kept tightening
as I wrote, leading to
Christodora. I did not have
some of the most key
connections and turning
points in the novel until
I was a third or more
of the way through. I
wanted writing the book
to feel how life feels, that
most days you are simply
moving forward with no
idea how things are going to turn out.

A lot of raw matter of my own life the

past 20 years is woven into Christodoramental illness, addiction, HIV,
struggle, recovery, relapse, re-recovery.
intelligent, and strong-willed. But
her limitation in life is her sincerity;
it creates the blind spots. I wanted
[my protagonist] Tess to embody all
of thatthe strength, the appetite for
knowledge, but also the blindness. I
think thats youth.

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JW: Another Brooklyn is both a biography and a novel. Its a biography of

the neighborhood Bushwick, originally called Bosjwick when it was settled
by the Dutch. One of those settlers
was a former enslaved person who
bought his freedom.

Jacqueline Woodson Juna E. Nagle

How much of your own life experience do you bring into your
fiction? What, or who, represents
a bit of you in your new novel?
SD: People will assume Im Tess for
the rest of my life, but that was a
difficult character for me to write. I
couldnt remember what it felt like to
be that new, I dont think I ever was.
I identify more with Simone, that sort
of world-weary cynic.... And while I
dont think I was as toxic as Simone
[when I managed restaurants], I know
what it feels like to have a complicated

relationship with young women who

are desperate to figure themselves out.
TM: A lot of raw matter of my own
life the past 20 years is woven into
Christodoramental illness, addiction, HIV, struggle, recovery, relapse,
re-recovery. And, on the lighter, or at
least the more productive, side, art,
activism, friendships and family ties,
sex, romance, disco, and clubgoing!
JW: I am represented by every single
character in Another Brooklyn, from the

agree with the general book criticism

culture; we judge books on whether
characters are likable or relatable, not
whether the artist has done a noteworthy job representing a particular
point of view.
I thank God I live in a cosseted
world where I never read reviews of
anything, including other peoples
books, on the Internet.... I have a social media page full of exchanges with
readers that keep me feeling humbled
and grateful, and that is plenty.

JW: Fortunately, people are too kind

to tell me what they like least about
my book, and I tend to not read reviews, especially negative ones. I dont
think reviews are helpful because
theyre for the particular book [that
you just published], which, if you
dont plan to write again, the editorial
notes from critics dont really matter,
right? Many people love what the
story evokes for them. Its different for
different readers, but the ones who
love it have a deep emotional connection to the novel.
Liz Hartman

Tim Murphy Chris Gabello

Stephanie Danler

nurse at Kings County Hospital to

the people of Caviteo to the Nation
of Islam brother stopping the family
on the street. It is very hard to write a
book and not put yourself in it.
What are you hearing from your
readers about what they like
mostand leastabout your novel?
SD: Its the same thing, Tesss voice.
People either understand her, or they
dont. It is equally jarring to hear from
someone, Tess is me, and That
wasnt what I was like at 22. I dont

TM: They like that its an intensely

emotional book with characters they
become completely consumed with
and sometimes angry at, but also feel
protective of, and need to know how
everything turns out for them. They
love that the characters are deeply
flawed, but also human and capable
of great moments. Some [readers]
struggle with the disconnected first
several chapters, while others say
they like that because the first third of
the book is a bit like putting together
a puzzle.

N.Y.C.: Tales of the City

A Reading from Three Novels
Sunday, Nov. 20, 11:30 a.m.12:30 p.m.
Auditorium (Building 1, 2nd floor,
Room 1261)

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Born a Crime
Trevor Noahs lightning-fast ascendancy to the top of the comedic
heapafter only six months as a correspondent for Comedy Centrals
Daily Show in 2015, he was chosen as host upon Jon Stewarts
departureis well-known. But Born a Crime: Stories from a
South African Childhood (Random/Spiegel & Grau) proves Trevor
Noahs real-life story is even more astonishing.

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Kwaku Alston

orn a Crime is
both an affecting
glimpse back at
his childhood
and a singular exploration
of race and racial tension in
South Africa. When Noah
first decided to write a book
about growing up in South
Africa under apartheid, he
didnt have to look far for a
title. The Immorality Act of
1927 had made interracial
romance against the law,
and Noahs very existence
was proof his parents had
violated that statute: his
mother is Xhosa; his father
is Swiss. Which was why
young Trevor spent the first
few years of his life, in the
early 1980s, literally hidden
from the world.
Where most children
are proof of their parents
love, I was the proof of their
criminality, Noah recalls.

The only time I could be

with my father was indoors.
My mother tells me that
once, when I was a toddler.
he was walking a good bit
away from us, and I ran after him, screaming, Daddy!
Daddy! Daddy! People starting
looking. He was terrified.
He panicked and ran away.
I thought it was a game and
kept chasing him.
Noahs father had
good reason to panic. The
real-world consequences of
being born Colored, the
African term for a mixedrace child, were all too terrifying, Noah says. My gran
still tells the story of when
I was three years old and,
fed up with being a prisoner
[inside the house], I dug a
hole under the gate in the
driveway, wriggled through
and ran off. Everyone panicked.... I had no idea how

much danger I was putting

everyone in. The family
could have been deported,
my gran could have been
arrested, my mom might
have gone to prison, and I
probably would have been

make, and sell, pirated

copies of CDs across the
township. It was illegal, to
be sure. But Noah has no
regrets on that score.
They love to say, give a
man a fish, and hell eat for a

Most children are proof of

their parents love, I was the
proof of their criminality.
packed off to the group
home for colored kids.
During apartheid, there
was slavery, he notes, thats
how everyone was employed.
When democracy came, all
the old rules went out the
door. Noah, and thousands
of others in his situation,
had to learn how to survive.
His way out was a CD
burner, given to him by a
white friend, that let him

day. Teach a man to fish, and

hell eat for a lifetime, Noah
says. What they dont say is,
And it would be nice if you
gave him a fishing rod!
Dave Stern

Special Event: Trevor Noah

Sunday, Nov. 13, 67 p.m.
Chapman Conference Center,
Building 3, 2nd floor,
Room 3210, Tickets $40

Tavis Smiley Smiles on the

KING POP
of

A celebrated radio and TV producer and host of his eponymous PBS TV show and Public Radio International program,
Tavis Smiley shares an evening at the Miami Book Fair to
talk about his latest book, Before You Judge Me: The Triumph
and Tragedy of Michael Jacksons Last Days (Little, Brown), coauthored with David Ritz. Smiley, called a gifted orator and
a budding media mogul by the New Yorkers Kelefa Sanneh,
examines what happened in 2009 during the 16 days before
the King of Pop died so suddenly right before his highly
anticipated London concert series, This Is It. He took a few
minutes to speak with PW about his latest project.

None of us goes into the

fullness of our own humanity until we can wrestle with
everyone elses.
What led you to write about Michael Jackson?
I am a fan of his music. The minute I had heard
about the concerts, which were announced as his
last, I called his mother, got a ticket, and made
hotel and plane reservations. If these were going
to be his last concerts, I wanted to be there. I
was shocked when word came that he
had passed away. When the documentary, Michael Jacksons This Is
It, came out, which detailed his
preparation for the concerts, it
raised more questions for me
than [it] answered. My central
questions were, Why? What
happened? But when I started
research, my question changed
to, How did he last this long?

Why do you feel so connected to him?

Im from Indiana, as he was, and his music has been the
soundtrack of my life. I grew up watching the Jackson Five
cartoon every morning. I was living through him vicariously. I
was fascinated by what its like to have been the most famous
person in the world, and then to have a whole lot of people
turn against you. Heres a life at the top of the world and then
he has this huge fall from grace. And here he is trying to get
back to where he belongs.
How did you research the book?
There were two sets of documents that came from the two
trials that helped me recreate his life. First was the People v.
Conrad Murray, which was the case against the doctor accused
of killing Michael. Then there was a second trial, when his
mother, Katherine Jackson, sued AEG Live for wrongful death.
Both those transcripts, if you dig hard enough, reconstruct
every day of his life in those 16 weeks.
What do you hope readers will discover about
Michael Jackson?
That every one of us is human. I hope this book
gives us a way to look past his iconography and
wrestle with his humanity. The title comes from
one of Michaels songs with this lyric that jumped
out at me: Before you judge me, try hard to love
me. None of us goes into the fullness of our
own humanity until we can wrestle with
everyone elses.
Beth Levine

An Evening with Tavis Smiley

Wednesday, Nov. 16, 67 p.m. Chapman
Conference Center (Building 3, 2nd floor,
Room 3210) Tickets $40

The Tavis Smiley Group Inc., Kevin Foley

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A Bonanza of
Book Events for
Toddlers to Teens
For more than three decades, the Miami Book Fair has striven
to bring people of every stripe closer to booksincluding
young readers from tots to teenagers. From the beginning,
the fair has offered extensive programming for children.
Generation Genius gathers all the fairs literacy and learning
programs for children and teens under one banner. Heres
an overview of events, from Friday, November 18, through
Sunday, November 20. For further information and details
about time and place, go to miamibookfair.com or see the
2016 Fair Guide.

RockHill Publishing LLC

There are some lessons
that only time can teach,
but you do not learn talent,
you only perfect it over
time.

The name RockHill symbolizes a publishing house

built on solid foundation, the Rock, and above the
littered landscape, the Hill, to give clear vision. Not
so high as to be unattainable, or unable to see the
small gems among the big stones.
Killer With A Heart
Nicky Nails is looking for respect, Bulletproof
MoJo Johnson for revenge. They rob a mob
money drop, romance a mafia princess, and
start a war.
ISBN: 978-1-945286-00-1
Price: 14.99
Killer With Three Heads
Ten years after the Banoa-Rocci war someone
has kidnapped Maria Delitanni and resurrected
the Devil. Bulletproof MoJo Johnson is back to
make them pay.
ISBN: 978-1-945286-03-2
Price: 14.99
Love & Madness
Romantic saga of buried family secrets,
despicable deeds, and an enduring love
spanning thirty years.
ISBN: 978-1-945286-06-3
Price: 12.99

Friday Specials
GENERATION GENIUS SCHOOL FIELD TRIPS

On Friday, nearly 10,000 school children from all over

Miami-Dade County come to the fair to meet their favorite
authors. Some are lucky enough to leave with free books.
Also on Friday, authors visit schools throughout the county
to bring the fun of the fair into classrooms.
NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION PRESENTS THE TEEN PRESS CONFERENCE

For the second year, high school students from Miami-Dade

County public schools will have a rare opportunity to act as
real journalists. At 10 a.m. on Friday, they will pose questions
to the finalists for the 2016 National Book Award for Young
Peoples Literature.

Knight Kisses
Embroiled in deceit to protect herself, Gabrielle seeks a way out from her obscure past,
and sinks into a morass of danger.
ISBN: 978-0-9966929-3-9
Price: 12.99

The Emerald Lady

A pirate-mermaid love story entwined with
the American Revolution. The vengeful mermaid Queen-Mother punishes a defiant Shera
by torturing Jeremy who dares to love her.
ISBN: 978-0-9966929-0-8
Price: 11.49
When Dani Smiled
When it is all or nothing, you fight with everything you have. Be that your heart, or the
smarts you were born with.
ISBN: 978-0-9966929-6-0
Price: 12.99

Friday to Sunday
CHILDRENS ALLEY

Theres a ton of fun to be had in Childrens Alley, designed

for the youngest readers, with Fun Rooms offering a wide

Stop by our booth. Meet our authors.

Athina Paris a romance writer from South Africa who writes epic
melodramas.
James L Hill aka J L Hill a multi-genre author born and raised in
the South Bronx.

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range of activitiesconnected to a book in some waytaking

place throughout the weekend. Theres Tot Time Play and
Learn for the infant to age-three crowd; Science Fair for kids
of all ages; the Paintbox, where children can create art
inspired by books; and the Rhythm Factory, where
kids can move and groove, swing and sway, and
learn about instruments.
ONCE UPON A TIME STAGE

Books, music, and art are brought to life in the

programming for Once Upon a Time. Matthew
Reinhart, author, artist and master of the pop-up
book, brings new life to the adventures of Elsa and
Anna in Frozen. Hobuco introduces young listeners to classical music through fairy tales, and Todd Parr
encourages kids to be a different color, speak your
language, wear what you want to wear, and remember that unique traits are what make you special.
BOOK FAIR JR.

The special author events and presentations

throughout the weekend under the banner of Book Fair, Jr. are geared toward the
seven-to-14 age group. An impressive lineup
of childrens literature superstars are in
attendance. On Friday, at 10 a.m., Sarah
Mynowski presents Sticks & Stones, book
two of the Upside Down Magic series (Scholastic). (Note: Mynowskis presentation requires
an email RSVP at miamibookfair.com.) There
are two opportunities to hear Jon Scieszka
talk about everyones favorite kid-genius
inventor, Frank Einstein. He talks about the
fourth installment in the series, Frank Einstein
and the EvoBlaster Belt (Abrams), at 10 a.m. on
Friday (RSVP required at miamibookfair.com)
and at noon on Saturday. At 11:30 a.m. Friday
comics genius Gene Luen Yang talks about Paths
& Portals (FirstSecond), the newest volume in
Secret Coders, a graphic novel series about lovable
but mischievous programmers. (Yang presents another installment on Sunday, at 10 a.m.) And at 1
p.m., Friday, author-extraordinaire Ridley Pearson
introduces readers to his new trilogy, Lock and
Key, with the first book in the series, The Initiation
(HarperCollins). The series stars James Moriarty
who, before he became a ruthless villain, was
Sherlock Holmess roommate in school. Later, the
duo became literatures most famous enemies.
Saturday features two-time Newbery Medal
Awardwinner Lois Lowry, who takes us on a
journey into her childhood with her new book,
Looking Back: A Book of Memories (HMH) at 10
a.m. On both Friday at 11:30 a.m. and Saturday
at 11 a.m., Cressida Cowell will share How to

Fight a Dragons Fury (Hodder), the epic finale to her How to

Train Dragon series.
YA BOOK LOVERS

These young adult programs are recommended for ages

14 and up. Joining the festivities is an inspiring group
of young adult authors, many of whom are mainstays on national and international bestseller lists.
At 10 a.m. on Friday, Sara Shepard, the author of
the Pretty Little Liars books discusses Book 1
of her new series, the Amateurs (HarperTeen),
which is chock-full of crime, intrigue, and
romance. Also at 10 a.m., blockbuster author
Victoria Aveyard will talk about Glass Sword, the
next installment in the Red Queen series, which
has captivated readers around the world. And at 11
a.m. on Friday, Margaret Stohl will present Black
Widow: Red Vengeance (Marvel), the action-packed
sequel to her bestselling novel, Black Widow:
Forever Red.
Red

AND MORE FOR YA: PANELS APLENTY

On Saturday at 2 p.m. four authors come

together to bring ancient myths alive in the
panel Of Myths and Monsters! George
OConnor, author of Apollo: The Brilliant
One (FirstSecond), joins Adam Shaugnessy,
Margaret Dolloway, and Imam Baksh, the
authors of, respectively, The Unbelievable FIB2:
Over the Underworld (Algonquin); Momotaro: Xander and the Lost Island of Monsters
(Dreamscape Media), and Children of the
Spider (Blue Moon). Deadly mysteries are
the subject of Dark Secrets, a panel at 4
p.m. that features Mindy McGinnis, Kimberly
McCreight, and Kara Thomas discussing The
Female of the Species (HarperCollins/Tegen), The
Outliers (HarperCollins), and The Darkest Corners
(Delacorte).
Sunday has its own lineup of superb
panels. At noon, Leigh Bardugo, author of
Crooked Kingdom, a Sequel to Six Crows (Holt), and
Alexandra Bracken, author of Passenger (DisneyHyperion), go head to head on the panel Dark
Forces Breed Complex Villains. Good vs. Evil
is the topic at 2 p.m. for Melissa de la Cruz,
Matt Phelan, and Soman Chainani, who discuss
their recent novels, Return to the Isle of the Lost
(Disney-Hyperion), Snow White (Candlewick),
and School for Good and Evil: The Last Ever After
(HarperCollins).
Liz Hartman

Self Portrait by Gene Luen Yang

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