Poets & Writers Theater

“I am a product of this country that I interrogate in this book,” says Albert Samaha, author of Concepcion: An Immigrant Family’s Fortunes (Riverhead Books, 2021), in this episode of Coffee & Conversations with Enrique Rosell, program manager at Florida International University’s Wolfsonian Public Humanities Lab. Samaha’s debut memoir is featured in Page One in the November/December issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

“When she caught me staring at her, she said, ‘What can I get for you?’ She said it nicely and briskly, as though she didn’t care that I’d been staring.” Melissa Broder reads from her new novel, Milk Fed (Scribner, 2021), and answers questions about the book in this virtual event for Books & Books in Florida, in partnership with the Miami Book Fair.

“The deal with Florida is the charlatans and lunatics and Snapchat-famous plastic surgeons. It is the Ponzi schemes, the byzantine corruption, the evangelical fervor and the consenting-adult depravity....” In this Books & Books virtual event, Kent Russell reads from his memoir, In the Land of Good Living (Knopf, 2020), and discusses Florida and his writing experience with author and sibling Karen Russell. In the Land of Good Living is featured in Page One in the July/August issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

"It's an exploration, an homage, and a critique." Margo Jefferson talks to Jeffrey Brown about her memoir, Negroland (Pantheon, 2015), at the 2015 Miami Book Fair. Jefferson is a finalist in the autobiography category for the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award.