http://www.miamiherald.com/1389/index.html http://media.miamiherald.com/images/logos/rss_sitelogo.gif http://www.miamiherald.com/1389/index.html 140 25 News, sports and entertainment from MiamiHerald.com en-us Copyright 2009 MiamiHerald.com Miami Book Fair International 60 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:15:08 EST http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/1389/story/1320496.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1389/story/1320496.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Elizabeth Alexander's Praise Song for the Day, the inauguration poem that helped deliver Barack Obama into office, was in the making for almost half a century, surely for three generations: The grandmother who sang lullabies, poetry set to music. The parents who took their 1-year-old daughter to the Lincoln Memorial to hear Martin Luther King Jr.'s I Have a Dream speech. The husband who emptied the house of the two boys, because, more than anything, Alexander needed hushed space to muster words and thoughts, then distill them into something beautiful, powerful, memorable. http://www.miamiherald.com/1389/story/1320062.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1389/story/1320062.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Al Gore's new work -- ``Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis'' (Rodale Books, $26.99) -- is a culmination of 30 ``solution summits'' that Gore convened around the world. Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 for his environmental advocacy. Beth Reinhard, political writer at The Miami Herald, spoke to him recently about this book. http://www.miamiherald.com/1389/story/1320493.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1389/story/1320493.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:00 EST ''God gave unto the Animals / A wisdom past our power to see,'' goes a hymn sung by God's Gardeners, the ecologically minded, deeply spiritual but eminently practical religious cult in Margaret Atwood's fire-breathing new novel, The Year of the Flood. http://www.miamiherald.com/1389/story/1320064.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1389/story/1320064.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Jay Weaver is The Herald's legal-affairs reporter. He asked these questions of Joan Biskupic, the author of ``American Original, The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia''. Biskupic, who obtained her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, has been USA Today's legal affairs correspondent since 2000. http://www.miamiherald.com/1389/story/1322564.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1389/story/1322564.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Small booksellers are filling niches and emphasizing service as they fight to stay in business. http://www.miamiherald.com/1389/story/1323762.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1389/story/1323762.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Miami Book Fair International kicked off Sunday night at Miami Dade College with novelist Margaret Atwood, poet Elizabeth Alexander and a fingers-crossed hope that troublesome Hurricane Ida keeps heading north. http://www.miamiherald.com/1389/story/1320509.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1389/story/1320509.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Every year, Miami Book Fair International generates high expectations among Spanish-language readers who enthusiastically greet authors from throughout the Hispanic world. But the fair also gives writers from the United States, Canada and Miami the opportunity to present their books in Spanish and to mingle with their English-language colleagues. http://www.miamiherald.com/1389/story/1320905.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1389/story/1320905.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Wear comfortable shoes. Get a copy of the schedule beforehand. Sign up for tickets in advance. Bring a big bag for the books you'll buy, whether you plan to or not. Be sure to try some sessions utterly out of the blue. http://www.miamiherald.com/1389/story/1320503.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1389/story/1320503.html Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Journalists are never the story. They look instead to the world at large, interviewing, researching and seeking objective truth. Jeannette Walls knows this approach well, having worked for 20 years as a journalist in New York City -- including a stint as a gossip columnist -- before her first nonfiction book, The Glass Castle, was released in 2005. http://www.miamiherald.com/1389/story/1320507.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1389/story/1320507.html Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Barbara Kingsolver jokes that whenever she publishes a novel she apparently turns into a railway station because, according to reviewers, ''I only do departures.'' http://www.miamiherald.com/1389/story/1320501.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1389/story/1320501.html Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Orhan Pamuk is a man in love. So is Kemal, the narrator of Pamuk's shimmering, brimming new novel The Museum of Innocence (Knopf, $28.95). http://www.miamiherald.com/1389/story/1320498.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1389/story/1320498.html Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:00 EST If most biographers start out in love with their subjects and end up hating them, Brad Gooch did things backward as he researched his highly regarded biography of southern writer Flannery O'Connor. http://www.miamiherald.com/1389/story/1320497.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1389/story/1320497.html Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:00 EST If President Bill Clinton hadn't challenged House Speaker Newt Gingrich's penny-pinching, tax-relieving budget proposals in 1995, allowing the federal government to shut down several times, there might have been no Monica Lewinsky scandal. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/books/story/1323762.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/books/story/1323762.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Miami Book Fair International kicked off Sunday night at Miami Dade College with novelist Margaret Atwood, poet Elizabeth Alexander and a fingers-crossed hope that troublesome Hurricane Ida keeps heading north. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/books/story/1323763.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/books/story/1323763.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Here are Monday's events at Miami Book Fair International at Miami Dade College, 300 NE Second Ave., Miami. Tickets for ``Evenings With . . .'' events can be downloaded at www.miamibookfair.com http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/books/story/1320493.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/books/story/1320493.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:00 EST ''God gave unto the Animals / A wisdom past our power to see,'' goes a hymn sung by God's Gardeners, the ecologically minded, deeply spiritual but eminently practical religious cult in Margaret Atwood's fire-breathing new novel, The Year of the Flood. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/books/story/1320062.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/books/story/1320062.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Al Gore's new work -- ``Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis'' (Rodale Books, $26.99) -- is a culmination of 30 ``solution summits'' that Gore convened around the world. Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 for his environmental advocacy. Beth Reinhard, political writer at The Miami Herald, spoke to him recently about this book. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/books/story/1320496.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/books/story/1320496.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Elizabeth Alexander's Praise Song for the Day, the inauguration poem that helped deliver Barack Obama into office, was in the making for almost half a century, surely for three generations: The grandmother who sang lullabies, poetry set to music. The parents who took their 1-year-old daughter to the Lincoln Memorial to hear Martin Luther King Jr.'s I Have a Dream speech. The husband who emptied the house of the two boys, because, more than anything, Alexander needed hushed space to muster words and thoughts, then distill them into something beautiful, powerful, memorable. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/books/story/1320064.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/books/story/1320064.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Jay Weaver is The Herald's legal-affairs reporter. He asked these questions of Joan Biskupic, the author of ``American Original, The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia''. Biskupic, who obtained her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, has been USA Today's legal affairs correspondent since 2000. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/books/story/1322564.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/books/story/1322564.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Small booksellers are filling niches and emphasizing service as they fight to stay in business. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/books/story/1320509.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/books/story/1320509.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Every year, Miami Book Fair International generates high expectations among Spanish-language readers who enthusiastically greet authors from throughout the Hispanic world. But the fair also gives writers from the United States, Canada and Miami the opportunity to present their books in Spanish and to mingle with their English-language colleagues. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/books/story/1320905.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/books/story/1320905.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Wear comfortable shoes. Get a copy of the schedule beforehand. Sign up for tickets in advance. Bring a big bag for the books you'll buy, whether you plan to or not. Be sure to try some sessions utterly out of the blue. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/books/story/1320507.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/books/story/1320507.html Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Barbara Kingsolver jokes that whenever she publishes a novel she apparently turns into a railway station because, according to reviewers, ''I only do departures.'' http://www.miamiherald.com/living/family/kids-books/story/1307798.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/family/kids-books/story/1307798.html Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT Peter Yarrow's latest book was about to debut at No. 1 on the Publishers Weekly bestseller list, but his thoughts were on the past. Mary Travers, his partner in the 1960s folk-singing trio Peter, Paul and Mary, had just died. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/family/kids-books/story/1274505.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/family/kids-books/story/1274505.html Sat, 10 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT The heroine of Kristin Cashore's second novel, Fire, is named for the color of her hair -- a prismatic red that mixes shades of ''sunrise, copper, poppy, fuchsia, and flame'' into a mane so dazzling she keeps it covered with a scarf to deflect attention. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/family/kids-books/story/1250792.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/family/kids-books/story/1250792.html Sun, 27 Sep 2009 01:00 EDT Here's a little something Hialeah residents probably didn't know about Mayor Julio Robaina and Councilwoman Katharine Cue: They are authors.<p/> At the city's annual literacy fair event hosted Sept. 19 at John F. Kennedy Library, the duo unveiled their first children's book, titled When I Grow Up! http://www.miamiherald.com/living/family/kids-books/story/1082563.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/family/kids-books/story/1082563.html Sat, 06 Jun 2009 03:01 EDT Michael Phelps channels dinosaurs in a world absent of scandal over bongs. Julianne Moore relives her red-haired childhood in a standoff with a school bully. Both are among the celebrities keeping up production in the boldface-name factory that churns out children's books. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/family/kids-books/story/1049925.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/family/kids-books/story/1049925.html Sat, 16 May 2009 03:01 EDT Pity the poor fan of Rick Riordan's popular series for adults about Tres Navarre, a Texas private eye with a Ph.D. in medieval literature and an enchilada-eating cat. Beginning with the first book, Big Red Tequila, in 1997, readers could reliably count on a new mystery almost every year. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/family/kids-books/story/956134.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/family/kids-books/story/956134.html Thu, 08 Mar 2007 12:47 EST <ital>Editor's note: This story was originally published Sept. 8, 2007.</ital>