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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 >>

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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 >>

The Cuban Kitchen's Raquel Rabade Roque at Books & Books Tonight

Cuban food lovers, put down your forks and stop in at Books & Books in Coral Gables tonight at 8 p.m. to talk rice and black beans and more with Raquel Rabade Roque, author of The Cuban Kitchen, owner of Downtown Book Center in Miami, and co-founder of the Miami Book Fair.Her new paperback is lo ... More >>

History Laid Bare

Cuban food lovers, put down your forks and stop in at Books & Books in Coral Gables tonight at 8 p.m. to talk rice and black beans and more with Raquel Rabade Roque, author of The Cuban Kitchen, owner of Downtown Book Center in Miami, and co-founder of the Miami Book Fair.Her new paperback is lo ... More >>

New Jersey Meatballs

Cuban food lovers, put down your forks and stop in at Books & Books in Coral Gables tonight at 8 p.m. to talk rice and black beans and more with Raquel Rabade Roque, author of The Cuban Kitchen, owner of Downtown Book Center in Miami, and co-founder of the Miami Book Fair.Her new paperback is lo ... More >>

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

​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 >>

Who's Baba Booey?

​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 >>

Dexter Is Delicious

​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 >>

A-Hole on Parade

​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 >>

Captivating Captive

​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 >>

From Forbes to Fiction

​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 >>

Coffey Calling the Kettle Black

​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 >>

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

​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 >>

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

​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 >>

The Dark Passenger

​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 >>

Drink and Be Literary

​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 >>

Life After Pi

​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 >>

Dave Barry Had a Hole Cut in His Scrotum and Wants You to Know

​Beloved humor columnist Dave Barry no longer writes his weekly syndicated column for the Miami Herald (much to the chagrin of the paper's circulation department, we're sure). He  hasn't completely hung up his pen, but he  has hung up his sperm; and he's written all about ... More >>

Truth, Still Inconvenient

​Beloved humor columnist Dave Barry no longer writes his weekly syndicated column for the Miami Herald (much to the chagrin of the paper's circulation department, we're sure). He  hasn't completely hung up his pen, but he  has hung up his sperm; and he's written all about ... More >>

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

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

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 >>

Intimately Fictional

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 Maverick Is Back

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 >>

Punch a D-Lister

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 >>

Read Between the Lines

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 >>

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.

Miami Book Fair Preview: Q&A with Dennis Lehane

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

Pelosi disses Obama in the Gables

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

Madeleine’s Words of Wisdom

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

Not-So-Dear Diaries

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

My Super Sweet Quince

Julia Alvarez investigates the rite of Latin teenage passage

Return of the Economic Hit Man

When John Perkins speaks, government officials tremble

We’re Nuts About Him

When John Perkins speaks, government officials tremble

Dunlap Defies Description

When John Perkins speaks, government officials tremble

Scintillating Styles

Find your fashion forecast in the stars

Writing While Intoxicated

Find your fashion forecast in the stars

Former Secretary’s Day

Find your fashion forecast in the stars

A Cultural Celebration

Jewish heritage with a twist of lime

This Week's Day by Day Picks

Jewish heritage with a twist of lime

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