Book Reviews

Martha Stewart on Match.com: Real Life = Great Comedy (Videos)

Martha Stewart has joined Match.com. The 71-year-old domestic diva is looking for love on the Internet dating site. While it's great to think that Martha is actually looking for love, one has to wonder just how sincere the whole process is. While there really is a profile on Match.com (and Martha h ... More >>

Lady Justice

The Words: Witlessly Titled and Executed

South Beach-Based Author Michael Grunwald Is Changing D.C.'s Mind About the Stimulus

In our nation's capital, real consensus happens as often as a noncreepy Rick Scott grin. Yet for the past couple of years, everyone in Washington, D.C., has agreed on this: President Obama's mammoth 2009 stimulus was kind of laughable. Green-energy initiatives? Saving America from financial ruin? Ha ... More >>

South Beach Sexytime

A Tale of Two Pities

Téa Obreht Turns Serbian Folk Tales Into Fiction Gold

Bill Clinton Visiting Books & Books December 1

Last year, George W. Bush headlined the Miami Book Fair International. While this year's edition offers no presidential names on the bill, another former commander-in-chief is preparing for a literary visit to Miami this Fall. The Coral Gables location of Books & Books will be hosting Bill Clint ... More >>

Books & Books

History Laid Bare

New Jersey Meatballs

You Can Now Buy Mike Haridopolos' Crappy Book for $9.99 on Your Kindle

​So, this weekend the Associated Press published a story on some crappy book Florida Senate President and likely US Senate candidate Mike Haridopolos got $152,000 in taxpayer money from Brevard Community College to write. Besides being of questionable quality, only one copy of the book existed. We ... More >>

Too Cutie for Words

Who's Baba Booey?

A-Hole on Parade

Captivating Captive

From Forbes to Fiction

Coffey Calling the Kettle Black

Alton Brown at Lincoln Theater Tonight

​The Food Network's beloved nerdy scientist, Alton Brown, will be at the Lincoln Theater tonight at 7:30 p.m. to read from his latest book, Good Eats 2: The Middle Years. Tickets are still available and you get two of them when you buy Brown's book at any Books & Books location or at the door ... More >>

Bitch, Behave

Robert Straley's New Book Details Horror, Abuse At Florida School for Boys

​After running away from an abusive mother in the 1950s, the courts deemed Robert Straley an "incorrigible youth" and sent him to live at the Florida School for Boys in picturesque Marianna, near the Georgia border. Straley couldn't imagine the horror he'd endure: regular beatings and torture at t ... More >>

Novelist Tom McCarthy on C, pirate radio, and cutups

The Dark Passenger

Drink and Be Literary

Life After Pi

Truth, Still Inconvenient

Around Town This Weekend

This time next week, (let's hope) you'll be basking in the glow of a three-day weekend, but for now, let the threat of showers make you glad you flaked on that visit to the car wash yesterday. Because former U.S. Sen. Bob Graham doesn't care if your whip is sparkling -- he wants to talk to you ... More >>

The Shortest Distance Between Two Writers

The Shortest Distance Between Two Writers

Intimately Fictional

The Maverick Is Back

Virtual Book Tour Hits Books & Books

Has your favorite author visited Miami for the last time?

Punch a D-Lister

Read Between the Lines

Race and Revolution

Diaspora Vibe Gallery offers a look at bigotry in Castro’s Cuba.

Dennis Lehane at Miami Book Fair International

The Mystic River writer talks about Tinseltown and his latest novel.

Pelosi disses Obama in the Gables

Madeleine’s Words of Wisdom

Not-So-Dear Diaries

Nikki Sixx’s new memoir is a tale of blow, hookers, and all things Mötley Crüe

Return of the Economic Hit Man

When John Perkins speaks, government officials tremble

We’re Nuts About Him

Dunlap Defies Description

Scintillating Styles

Find your fashion forecast in the stars

Writing While Intoxicated

Former Secretary’s Day

A Cultural Celebration

Jewish heritage with a twist of lime

This Week's Day by Day Picks

Bravo to Books

Books & Books throws a weekend party for all its book-loving friends

The Man of Ink

Creator of Wonder Boys and supermen, Michael Chabon is a literary hero

Voices of the Islands

Local author Bob Antoni casts a literary net and pulls in a long-overdue compilation of Caribbean writers