When Pete Fernandez returns to South Florida to hunt down the missing son of a rising politician — and eventually to unravel a cold case tied to a murderous cult — he operates in a very real version of Miami. The fictional detective hangs in Wynwood, eats Cuban food at Islas Canarias, and pokes around cookie-cutter suburbs in Southwest Miami-Dade.
When the awful news broke today that the legendary writer Tom Wolfe had died at 88 years old, all sorts of pockets of America jumped to lay claim to a man who was arguably the most influential nonfiction writer of the past 50 years.
It’s never OK to touch anyone’s hair without permission, but women of color experience that sort of unwanted attention all the time. Jamila Rowser relates that sentiment in her new comic, Wash Day, an homage to the Sunday ritual women with textured hair know all too well. Rowser, a South Florida resident who is black and Latina, wanted to share the story of many women in a slice-of-life format. Her comic includes glimpses of marijuana, gentrification, and street harassment — everyday themes for women in America and beyond.
In October 2015, Category 3 Hurricane Joaquin ripped through the Caribbean. It was a storm that confounded meteorologists and sank the cargo ship El Faro, bound for Puerto Rico. Along with the vessel, 33 sailors were lost.
O, Miami seeks to put “silence into language” with its #MeToo workshop this Sunday. Poet Yaddyra Peralta will conduct the event as part of the planned programming of O, Miami Poetry Festival.
Everyone thinks their hometown is unique, and everyone is probably right. But as any regular reader of Miami New Times can attest, our city is a special kind of odd. It’s the kind of place where the richest of the rich, the poorest of the poor, the most uptight, and the most laid-back are all melting in the same impossible heat. Through the eyes of two out-of-towners, I attempted to write not exactly a love letter to Miami, but a memorable postcard that would make its recipients wish they were here.
Zines are all about cutting out the middleman. You want to get your ideas or art out there? Just do it your goddamn self. Dale Zine was launched in 2009 by art director Steve Saiz as a DIY publishing project he used to highlight the talents of his friends. He…
Author and journalist Steve Almond found himself struggling to wrap his head around the election-night results of 2016. The result of that journey is his latest book, Bad Stories: What The Hell Just Happened to Our Country. He’ll discuss it Monday, March 26, with Books & Books owner Mitchell Kaplan.
Miami has provided the setting for truly epic crime tales turned into movies, such as War Dogs and Blow. The upcoming film The Corporation tells the story of Cuban crime lord Jose Miguel Battle’s rise to power in the underworld. The project stars Benicio del Toro, is based on a history penned by best-selling author T.J. English, and will be distributed by Paramount Pictures.
You might cringe at the thought of poetry, imagining smoky obscurity, impenetrable reasoning, and nonsensical utterances. But poetry is actually one of the most accessible kinds of art, says P. Scott Cunningham, the founder of O, Miami Poetry Festival and the author of the poetry book Ya Te Veo, released March 1.
Brad Meltzer is one of South Florida’s most celebrated thriller writers. For more than two decades, the author of page turners such as The Tenth Justice, Identity Crisis, and The Millionaires has more than proven the width and breadth of his imagination. In his latest book, The Escape Artist, due out March 6, he draws from some of the least-known segments of America’s military and turns them into a tale all their own.
According to the irreproachable authority of the internet, the hashtag #BlackGirlMagic has been around for about five years. It caught fire after CaShawn Thompson started tweeting the phrase and making merchandise donned by celebrities like Willow Smith and Amandla Stenberg. In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Thompson noted…
Last Thursday, the Trump administration released a controversial proposal that would allow 1.8 million Dreamers — undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as children — to pursue citizenship, but only in exchange for an end to family-based migration policies…
“I cannot abandon Havana,” Dr. Manolo Rodriguez muses over a cigarette in the opening pages of Robert Arellano’s newest novel, Havana Libre. It is the summer of 1997 — the height of Cuba’s Período Especial, or Special Period of economic crisis after the fall of the Soviet Union. The second installment in Arellano’s Cuba-centric series came out earlier this month just ahead of the third anniversary of President Barack Obama’s December 17, 2014 decision to normalize diplomatic relations with Cuba after more than 50 years of stalemate.
Maybe you’re feeling frustrated by politics. Maybe issues like police violence, racial discrimination, and poverty in communities of color feel unsolvable. Maybe you read the news each morning and wonder, How in hell did this country get so screwed up? In January, Ta-Nehisi Coates is coming to Miami to help answer that question.
The former vice president of the United States sat down with Man Booker Prize-winning writer George Saunders at the Adrienne Arsht Center as an accomplished foreign policymaker and bereaved father to discuss his new memoir, Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose.
If you live in Miami long enough, chances are you have a Miami story. At this year’s Miami Book Fair, there’s no shortage of intriguing tales from authors who’ve documented the highs and lows of the Magic City. New Times has handpicked a shortlist of page-turners uncovering secret haunts, seafront vistas, ventanitas, best buys, and wildlife adventures — all to remind you there’s no place like home.
Every book lover can remember a lost weekend while binge-reading a novel whose ending had to wait because the body just gave out. No matter how compelling the story, somewhere around the 30th hour the brain shuts down and nothing more goes in.
The prologue of Katy Tur’s Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History tells the story of the night Donald Trump became President Trump. Tur, defeated and sleep-deprived after a year and a half of covering the Trump campaign, recalls nearly shutting down mentally after learning that Trump planned to continue staging rallies after his victory.
Punk-rock queen, Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, writer, and artist Patti Smith will return to Miami Book Fair this year with her latest book, Devotion.
The Mutiny at Sailboat Bay was a notorious hotel and club in Coconut Grove that became the nerve center for Miami’s drug culture when the venue opened in 1969. It was there that the city’s lawless cocaine cowboys reigned over an era of unbridled excess heralded by a revival of…
Thanks to a robust schedule, visitors to this year’s Miami Book Fair will experience enough readings, panels, and other activities to fill a thousand volumes. There will be plenty of literary goodies to go around, but the organizers are most excited about what’s happening beyond the page at the Porch, an outdoor popup lounge that will host food, music, games, and other diversions.
