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 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:02:41 EST http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/1389/story/1329243.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1389/story/1329243.html Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Here's what you need to know to survive -- and even enjoy -- the weekend at the fair, held at Miami Dade College's Wolfson Campus, 300 NE Second Ave., Miami. http://www.miamiherald.com/1389/story/1329858.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1389/story/1329858.html Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Michael Sallah is investigations editor and author of ''Tiger Force: A True Story of Men and War'' (2006: Little, Brown and Company). He posed this question to Doug Stanton, author of ''Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of U.S. Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan'' (Scribner, $28). http://www.miamiherald.com/1389/story/1331163.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1389/story/1331163.html Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Though he had a meager memory of his own father, Armando Lucas Correa dreamed of becoming one at an early age. Even as a boy he knew that home and hearth, the comfort of family, was what he most enjoyed. http://www.miamiherald.com/1389/story/1334444.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1389/story/1334444.html Sun, 15 Nov 2009 01:00 EST On a perfect sunny day -- clearly, the weather gods are readers, too -- thousands packed the streets and classrooms of Miami Dade College for the 26th edition of Miami Book Fair International's street fair. http://www.miamiherald.com/1389/story/1329858.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1389/story/1329858.html Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Michael Sallah is investigations editor and author of ''Tiger Force: A True Story of Men and War'' (2006: Little, Brown and Company). He posed this question to Doug Stanton, author of ''Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of U.S. Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan'' (Scribner, $28). http://www.miamiherald.com/1389/story/1331164.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1389/story/1331164.html Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Mary Karr begins her new memoir, Lit, with an open letter to her son. She remembers how he had to visit her in a mental hospital when he was 4. http://www.miamiherald.com/1389/story/1331834.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1389/story/1331834.html Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:00 EST People who live in glass houses shouldn't get stoned. Not if they expect to keep paranoia at bay. And they sure shouldn't get so stoned that they start to see things. Because with all that glass, things just might start looking back. http://www.miamiherald.com/1389/story/1332364.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1389/story/1332364.html Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Ralph Nader, 75, has been an outsized figure in American political and civic life for more than four decades. Consumer advocate, lawyer, citizen activist and former presidential candidate -- perhaps most notably in 2000, when as a candidate for the Green party, he received nearly 3 percent of the vote -- he has also written or co-authored 34 books. Among them: the influential ``Unsafe At Any Speed,'' the 1965 best-selling indictment of the auto industry and its lax safety standards. In his latest book, ``Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!'' (Seven Stories Press, $27.50), Nader envisions what could happen if some of the country's richest people pooled their resources and led a drive to get many changes Nader has long sought -- curbs on corporate power and big insurance companies, for instance, and third-party victories. In the novel, characters based on real people such as Warren Buffett and Ted Turner in fictional roles mobilize the people for fairness and justice. http://www.miamiherald.com/1389/story/1331166.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1389/story/1331166.html Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Jo Maeder has described her family ties as ''wisps of a cotton puff that couldn't hold a single thing together.'' So when she left a glamorous life as a radio DJ in New York to help care for a mother she didn't particularly like in North Carolina, her friends thought she was crazy. http://www.miamiherald.com/1389/story/1329855.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1389/story/1329855.html Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Ronnie Greene, The Herald's urban affairs editor, is author of ''Night Fire: Big Oil, Poison Air, And Margie Richard's Fight To Save Her Town'' (HarperCollins/Amistad, 2008), honored as a Harry Chapin Award finalist. He asked this of John Dufresne, the acclaimed Dania Beach author of seven books, including ''Requiem, Mass.'' (Norton, $24.95; $13.95 paperback). http://www.miamiherald.com/1389/story/1329889.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1389/story/1329889.html Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:00 EST David Diaz is a copy editor for The Miami Herald. He asked this of Gerald Martin, who has written ''Gabriel García Márquez: A Life'' (Random House, $37.50). http://www.miamiherald.com/1389/story/1329895.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1389/story/1329895.html Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Jonathan Dubin, a page designer and copy editor for The Miami Herald, asked this of Aryeh Rubin, the editor of ''Jewish Sages of Today'' (Devora Publishing, $16.95). http://www.miamiherald.com/1389/story/1329998.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1389/story/1329998.html Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Diana Moskovitz is a staff writer for The Miami Herald. She asked this of Norman Podhoretz, who has written ''Why Are Jews Liberals?'' (Doubleday, $27). http://www.miamiherald.com/1389/story/1330043.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1389/story/1330043.html Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Adam H. Beasley writes about sports and breaking news for The Miami Herald. He asked these questions of S.L. Price, author of ''Heart of the Game: Life, Death and Mercy in Minor League America'' (HarperCollins, $24.99), about a minor-league coach killed when a batted ball struck him in the neck during a game. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/books/story/1344104.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/books/story/1344104.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:00 EST ''I tried to write a book that would keep the pedal consistently to the metal,'' Stephen King writes in an afterword to Under the Dome, his massive new novel -- his 48th! -- an explanation for why you will carry this heavy, bulky book everywhere, eager to gobble up a few more pages whenever you can. The novel is a monster, but it moves like a short story, devoid of the bloat and wordiness that has plagued the beloved author's latter-period work. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/books/story/1344105.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/books/story/1344105.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:00 EST An Englishman's home used to be his castle, but these days it has become his makeover opportunity. The UK is in the grip of a housing frenzy, obsessed with the buying, doing-up and selling of property. So it was a shrewd decision of Penelope Lively to spin her latest and 16th novel -- in a long, distinguished career that includes a Booker Prize -- out from the central axis of a lovely home in need of a refurb. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/books/story/1344111.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/books/story/1344111.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:00 EST In late 2002, obscure Illinois state Sen. Barack Obama was eyeing a run in the 2004 Democratic Party primary for a U.S. Senate seat. He would be up against seemingly prohibitive favorites. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/books/story/1339081.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/books/story/1339081.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:00 EST There will be no Thanksgiving turkey at Jonathan Safran Foer's house. The author of the acclaimed novels Everything is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close gave up eating animals in favor of writing Eating Animals (Little Brown, $25.99), a personal and philosophical exploration of food choices he discussed Tuesday in Miami Beach. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/books/story/1336812.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/books/story/1336812.html Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:00 EST In Paula Froelich's winning debut novel, her overworked newspaper reporter heroine accidentally starts a fire in the newsroom after leaving a cigarette smoldering in the photo studio-slash-smoking hideout. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/books/story/1336805.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/books/story/1336805.html Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Looking forward to your turkey dinner? Think twice. It's time, argues Jonathan Safran Foer, to stop lying to ourselves. With all the studies on animal agriculture, pollution, toxic chemicals in factory-farmed animals and exposés of the appalling cruelty to animals in that industry, he writes in Eating Animals, ''We can't plead ignorance, only indifference. Those alive today are the generations that came to know better. We have the burden and the opportunity of living in the moment when the critique of factory farming broke into the popular consciousness. We are the ones of whom it will be fairly asked, 'What did you do when you learned the truth about eating animals?' '' http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/books/story/1336803.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/books/story/1336803.html Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:00 EST In Paul Auster's world, everybody writes. And those who don't write want to. Not surprising, then, that his latest novel is riddled with word-workers. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/books/story/1336814.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/books/story/1336814.html Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:00 EST ''I love rereading, because it inserts you so deeply under a book's skin, and I've just reread two marvelous books. One is Famous Fathers, a story collection by Pia Z. Ehrhardt. She's masterful at stopping time at disturbing moments and then making us sit still with this ticking discomfort. . . . And I reread a debut poetry collection called What the Right Hand Knows by Tom Healy. It's alarming and beautiful and offers just enough framework for your imagination to race in and construct entire, sometimes devastating, narratives.'' http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/books/story/1336808.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/books/story/1336808.html Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:00 EST TUESDAY Susie Essman and ``What Would Susie Say?'' 6:30 p.m. The Bookstore in the Grove, 3399 Virginia St., #620, Coconut Grove. $25 includes a signed book, reserved seating, free parking and wine and cheese. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/books/story/1334444.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/books/story/1334444.html Sun, 15 Nov 2009 01:00 EST On a perfect sunny day -- clearly, the weather gods are readers, too -- thousands packed the streets and classrooms of Miami Dade College for the 26th edition of Miami Book Fair International's street fair. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/family/kids-books/story/1327309.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/family/kids-books/story/1327309.html Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Wild Thing from the popular book-turned-movie Where the Wild Things Are will be among the characters inhabiting Children's Alley, the magical world within the Miami Book Fair International that was created for kids. 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/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>