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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 >>

Nueba Yol Cuban

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 >>

Is Graham Crackers

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 >>

Celebrity Autobiography exposes stars as the half-wits they are

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 >>

Mock Treatment

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 >>

Emma in the Tropics

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 >>

Susan Cheever

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 >>

Miami Book Fair spins into town

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 >>

Tim Tebow is Already Writing His Memoir

Tim Tebow's best days in football are probably behind him, so of course it makes sense he's already writing his memoir. Harper Collins announced that Tebow's book Through My Eyes will be released in April of 2011. The book will of course detail his time with the Florida Gators, but will also detail ... More >>

Get Lit

Tim Tebow's best days in football are probably behind him, so of course it makes sense he's already writing his memoir. Harper Collins announced that Tebow's book Through My Eyes will be released in April of 2011. The book will of course detail his time with the Florida Gators, but will also detail ... More >>

Snooki Will Write a Novel, Denies Alcohol Poisoning Claims

​Earlier this week came reports that petite princess of poofdom Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi had a secret near death experience while shooting Jersey Shore in Miami stemming from alcohol poisoning. She's refuted the rumors, and in fact, she's living life right now perhaps at a level higher than most of ... More >>

New Yorker Editor Ben Greenman Talks His New Book, What He's Poised to Do

Miami native Ben Greenman has never been shy about toying with convention. via Ben Greenman​The New Yorker editor and novelist -- and let's not forget, Miami New Times alum -- has won acclaim for his McSweeney's-approved approach to writing, as in his last novel, 2009's ... More >>

Miami Free Times: Christopher Hitchens, Andres Escobar, Helio Castroneves, and Sebastin Junger

A still from Sebastian Junger's doc Restrepo about the frontlines in Afghanistan. ​What's free in the 305 this week? With the exception of one World-Cup-themed film, it's the week of testosterone-fueled book readings. There's a cranky British intellectual, a suave racecar driver, an embedded journ ... More >>

Prequel Foreplay

A still from Sebastian Junger's doc Restrepo about the frontlines in Afghanistan. ​What's free in the 305 this week? With the exception of one World-Cup-themed film, it's the week of testosterone-fueled book readings. There's a cranky British intellectual, a suave racecar driver, an embedded journ ... More >>

Ivy League Dreams

A still from Sebastian Junger's doc Restrepo about the frontlines in Afghanistan. ​What's free in the 305 this week? With the exception of one World-Cup-themed film, it's the week of testosterone-fueled book readings. There's a cranky British intellectual, a suave racecar driver, an embedded journ ... More >>

Can You Handler?

A still from Sebastian Junger's doc Restrepo about the frontlines in Afghanistan. ​What's free in the 305 this week? With the exception of one World-Cup-themed film, it's the week of testosterone-fueled book readings. There's a cranky British intellectual, a suave racecar driver, an embedded journ ... More >>

Miami Book Fair: Tao Lin

​In almost every sense -- except the most extreme -- Tao Lin's for sale. Of course, there's his published output, including the poetry books You Are a Little Bit Happier Than I Am ($14) and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy ($14.95), the short story collection Bed ($14.95), and a novel, Eeeee Eee Eeee ... More >>

The 2009 Miami Book Fair offers a strange brew of talent

​In almost every sense -- except the most extreme -- Tao Lin's for sale. Of course, there's his published output, including the poetry books You Are a Little Bit Happier Than I Am ($14) and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy ($14.95), the short story collection Bed ($14.95), and a novel, Eeeee Eee Eeee ... More >>

Night of the Living Word

​In almost every sense -- except the most extreme -- Tao Lin's for sale. Of course, there's his published output, including the poetry books You Are a Little Bit Happier Than I Am ($14) and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy ($14.95), the short story collection Bed ($14.95), and a novel, Eeeee Eee Eeee ... More >>

Family Matters

​In almost every sense -- except the most extreme -- Tao Lin's for sale. Of course, there's his published output, including the poetry books You Are a Little Bit Happier Than I Am ($14) and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy ($14.95), the short story collection Bed ($14.95), and a novel, Eeeee Eee Eeee ... More >>

Virtual Book Tour Hits Books & Books

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Word Fest

Has your favorite author visited Miami for the last time?

The Opposite of Oprah

Sweat Records Book Club takes on Palahniuk's latest.

Read Into It

Make some intelligent friends today

Confide, Receiver

NFL legend Jerry Rice shoots from the hip

Beach Reads

Big names? Big Deal. An alternative take on the Book Fair.

Five Book Fair Highlights

Big names? Big Deal. An alternative take on the Book Fair.

Book Fair Bonanza

Big names? Big Deal. An alternative take on the Book Fair.

In Search of the Great Miami Novel

Surely there's more to local literature than crime and exile

Flame On

Out of financial and creative bankruptcy, Marvel Comics is mighty once more

Write On!

Your chance to hear author Robert Olen Butler at Writers on the Bay

The New New Novelist

Jonathan Franzen

Totally Bizarro

Can superheroes and alternative comic authors really get along?

Twisp of the Tale

When C.D. Payne stopped writing ad copy, he created a revolutionary teenage hero

Fifteen Years of Bibliomania

When C.D. Payne stopped writing ad copy, he created a revolutionary teenage hero

First Draft

Her name is Ivonne Lamazares. You've probably never heard of her. Cuban immigrant, good student, dedicated teacher, devoted wife and mother. Oh, and something else. She just might be the world's next big thing in literary fiction.

Voices of the Islands

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