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After a few meager tweets about some of the authors confirmed for the Miami Book Fair 2011, a recent email has just released two dozen more awesome names. Check after the jump for the 24 new authors confirmed for the literary fest, slated for November 13 to 20. Better get on your local library’s waiting list for titles like Nicole Krauss’s Great House, Chuck Palahniuk’s Damned and Jeffrey Eugenides’s The Marriage Plot now.
We also learned that the theme this year will be China. There’ll be a pavilion featuring Chinese art and music, a conference on Chinese culture, and readings by Chinese and Chinese American writers during the Congress of Authors. This was an oblivious choice considering Miami’s booming Asian community. No, but really, Chinese culture is all the more exotic for being underrepresented in this town, right?
Here new additions to the roster of popular authors slated for Miami this Fall:
Chuck Palahniuk
Nicole Krauss
Jeffrey Eugenides
Lev Grossman
William Kennedy
Bobbie Ann Mason
Joyce Carol Oates
Robert Olen Butler
Karen Russell
David Brooks
Dr. Paul Farmer
Alexandra Styron
Diana Abu-Jaber
Elizabeth Berg
Alan Cheuse
Mark Childress
Tim Dorsey
Jaimey Gordon
Ann Hood
William Kennedy
Ana Menendez
Jacquelyn Mitchard
Robert Pinsky
Dava Sobel
And the Authors previously confirmed:
Colson Whitehead
Daniel Clowes
Rosanne Cash
John Sayles
Jim Lehrer
Michael Ondaatje
Leslie Marmon Silko
Tea’ Obreht
Javier Sierra
Jaime Bayly
Senator Bob Graham
Gioconda Belli
Harry Belafonte
Esmeralda Santiago
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