The Miami International Book Fair, which will be held November 13 to 20th this year, just announced four authors billed for their 2011 literary freak-out. The news trickled out via their Twitter feed earlier this afternoon. So far they’ve listed: Colson Whitehead (whose own Twitter feed is amazing by the…
Green Lantern, starring Ryan Reynolds (yum) as Hal Jordan, the swaggering, yet talented pilot who is bestowed with the power of the ring, was just released in theaters. Although some Miami residents flock to superhero blockbusters every summer without ever having so much as seen the inside of a comic…
Last night marked the latest installment of the quarterly Lip Service writing/performance mash-up event, and it provided further shining hope for local writerly types. Apparently, not only are there other people in Miami willing to give aspiring scribes a forum for their real-life stories, but there are people who will…
Check out all the photos from “Enter the Nineties” at Miami-Dade Main Library here.Remember the zine? It was the DIY magazine for the aspiring teenage artist, rock ‘n’ rock journalist, and literary writer. With a bit of imagination, a copier, and staples, you had your very own publication. You almost…
The rumors are definitely circulating, but as we have no official release in our clammy little hands, we’ll just say Evelyn Lozada might be writing a novel. (And by writing, we assume that means dictating tales to a bored ghostwriter.) According to the Bleacher Report and Black Sports Online, her…
Before the Internet was such a big thing, if you were a creative kid with passion to burn and a knack for stealing photocopies from Office Depot (um, or not), you turned to publishing a zine. These totally do-it-yourself publications were unapologetically tactile. And Subjects spanned anything from handwritten tortured…
Telling a story is not as easy as, well, telling a story. You need training, grasshopper. You need to take a class, learn narrative techniques, surround yourselves with other neurotic introverts. Luckily for you, the Florida Center for the Literary Arts is hosting its annual summer Fiction workshop, An Introduction…
German art book publisher Taschen’s got the 20-pound book thing under control. Remember The Big Penis Book and The Big Book of Breasts? Old sexy pics of giant members and huge tatas? These are the kinds of art books that stay on the coffee table and aren’t relegated to propping…
Like the unrepentantly skeezy, unexpectedly political monthly porno mag he founded, edited, and expanded into a worldwide publishing empire, Larry Flynt has been “hardcore since ’74.” That’s the official tagline at least. But really, Flynt’s wild and seedy misadventures actually stretch all the way back to the day — November…
Even after O, Miami brought to town O, about a ton of poems and poetry related goings-on last month, there’s still a mini onslaught of lyricism yet to come. We’ve got one more especially aggressively wordy event that will make the sometimes bitter pill of poetry go down sO, smoothly…
Once upon a time, a curious mommy with golden locks encountered three piles of books. One pile included classic bedtime staples like Goodnight Moon and The Very Hungry Caterpillar, which bored her so much that she figured they would put her to sleep before any of her pain in the…
In 1981, Adam Chester had just graduated from Miami Beach High, and was living in Los Angeles for college. He was over 3,000-miles away from his mom, Joan, but even though an entire country separated the two, Chester could not escape mom’s unsolicited words of advice. After over 30 years…
Finally, there’s a coffee shop in Wynwood. Lester’s opened its doors on Friday at 9 a.m. with a clean aesthetic, Wi-Fi, beer, and wine. It’s the perfect place for cool kids to get jacked up on espressos, do homework (or freelance work), and then come down again with a few…
Sloane Crosley wrote the cover story for the worst-selling issue of Maxim in its history. And anyone who fails at that lad rag scores with us. A former book publicist, the essayist and humorist has been called a modern-day Dorothy Parker by writer Jonathan Ames for quips such as “Life…
Last night, the New World Center was packed, more girls than boys, a younger vibe than older, not a lot of color, but a great mix of couture. This was a big night. Everyone needed to look dapper. Put on your best threads, those new shoes, that pretty party dress,…
Last night’s Literary Death Match was probably the first and last time an audience at Purdy Lounge will hear beautiful, funny, thoughtful poems read from the dance floor. Wait, that’s not true. Tonight O, Miami, the month-long poetry festival funded is also hosting Broken Social Spam there, mixing poetry and…
Graffiti: The art of marking a surface to convey a message. Poetry: The echoes of the sound of your synapse relays crackling.Combine the two and you’ve got poetry bombing, the method Agustina Woodgate is using to realize her project for the O, Miami poetry festival.For the past month, the artist…
Opium Magazine’s Literary Death Match evokes images of bloody pencils, torn up books, and trashed typewriters. But LDM is less like a poetry MMA battle, and more like an interactive reading involving judges and dart guns (maybe).The LDM has made its way around the globe, from London to San Francisco,…
On April 29, O, Miami presents Broken Social Spam, an experimental night of poetry and music with Broken Social Scene’s Andrew Whiteman, and Andrew “DJ Le Spam” Yeomanson of Spam Allstars, at Purdy Lounge. It promises to be the greatest Canadian-American fusion since Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee. We recently…
Everyone’s life is so rich with tales, some boring, others outrageous. But sometimes we feel like we don’t have the tools tell them, and so our memories become jumbled. And our hands won’t write. Frustration prevails.Maybe you’ve given up all hope on writing your story, or maybe you have a…
A few weeks ago, we spoke sternly and admonished Miamians for their refusal to read poetry aloud. The Toronto-based video bloggers How Pedestrian were in town for O, Miami, asking people on the street to read verse on camera. And it freaked us out a little when the Canadians reported…
Without your help, O, Miami cannot shout poetry out of a Ferrari come April 27. It takes several greenbacks to rent the damn car and procure one of them fancy megaphones. With only two days left, the Poetry Ferrari’s Kickstarter page needs just $220 to reach its goal. (Psst: the…
