National Book Awards

Prose for Bros

Eire's Ashes

Patti Smith Brings Her Memoir Just Kids to Miami Book Fair Tonight

Linda Smith BianucciProto-punk poet Patti Smith.​On Tuesday, counterculture queen Patti Smith's memoir Just Kids won the National Book Award for nonfiction. Taking part in the finalist readings, she described it, saying: "My book is the story of my friendship with the artist Robert Mapplethorpe, w ... More >>

Miami Book Fair spins into town

Linda Smith BianucciProto-punk poet Patti Smith.​On Tuesday, counterculture queen Patti Smith's memoir Just Kids won the National Book Award for nonfiction. Taking part in the finalist readings, she described it, saying: "My book is the story of my friendship with the artist Robert Mapplethorpe, w ... More >>

Correction to Freedom

Linda Smith BianucciProto-punk poet Patti Smith.​On Tuesday, counterculture queen Patti Smith's memoir Just Kids won the National Book Award for nonfiction. Taking part in the finalist readings, she described it, saying: "My book is the story of my friendship with the artist Robert Mapplethorpe, w ... More >>

Famous marijuana users

From an Olympic champion to an honest-to-goodness queen, everybody has smoked pot.

Literary Devices

From an Olympic champion to an honest-to-goodness queen, everybody has smoked pot.

Listening to Mr. M

From an Olympic champion to an honest-to-goodness queen, everybody has smoked pot.

Myths Over Miami

Captured on South Beach, Satan later escaped. His demons and the horrible Bloody Mary are now killing people. God has fled. Avenging angels hide out in the Everglades. And other tales from children in Dade's homeless shelters.