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Miami Book Fair Epilogue: Jonathan Safron Foer

Photo by Grant Delin​Why is Jonathan Safron Foer, young novelist and lit celebrity, appearing in Miami two days after the Miami Book Fair International? Kind of weird, but also pretty awesome for those of us who missed some of our favorite authors--Tao Lin, Jonathan Lethem--to the inevitable choic ... More >>

Miami Book Fair: Jonathan Lethem

Don't let the glasses fool you; he's a literary super hero​For fellow writers, Jonathan Lethem needs no introduction. 1999's Motherless Brooklyn, the story of a detective with Tourette's syndrome, put Lethem on the map, but by that point, he'd already written four novels that breached the genre li ... More >>

Miami Book Fair: Novelist Ben Greenman

Ben Greenman​ Ben Greenman was a 20-year-old rookie scribe fresh out of Yale when he was hired to write for the Miami New Times in 1990. The Palmettto Senior High alum joined a rabble rousing crew of writers who included Greg Baker, Jim Defede, Sean Rowe and Steve Almond. They were the ones who ... More >>

Book Fair Announces Author List

WikicommonsHunter S. Thompson at the 1988 Fair​Artists have Basel. Filmmakers have MIFF. Geniuses have the Book Fair.My inner nerd (well, maybe it's outer, too...) did the running man this morning when it saw PR-extraordinaire Lisa Palley's email announcing the Author List for the 2009 Miami Book ... More >>