Reverse-Gentrification of the Literary World

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Location: Miami Dade College, Wolfson Campus, Building 8, Room 8302

Map: Miami Dade College, Wolfson Campus, Building 8, Room 8302, Miami, Florida, United States

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Past Events

Edwidge Danticat & Dwight Thompson — Miami Book Fair (Miami, FL)

Read Caribbean’s Cross Currents: Haiti, Jamaica, and the Caribbean Imagination with Edwidge Danticat, Dwight Thompson, Fabienne Josaphat, and Diana McCauley; moderated by Fabian Lyon. This panel brings Haitian and Jamaican voices together to reflect on the shared histories and creative visions that bind the two islands—through revolutionary history, family sagas, and diasporic storytelling.

Edwidge Danticat & Dwight Thompson — Miami Book Fair (Miami, FL)

Read Caribbean’s Across Waters, Across Generations: Caribbean Becoming with Edwidge Danticat (Watch Out for Falling Iguanas), Dwight Thompson (My Own Dear People), and Ryan Bachoo (An Unending Search); moderated by Anjanette Delgado. This conversation will explore how intergenerational experience, youth, and the shifting geographies of diaspora shape Caribbean identity—through children’s literature, fiction, and narrative prose.

Bradley Spinelli and Robert Arellano – Miami Book Fair, Miami, FL

Two Thrillers: A Reading. A washed-up ex-journalist looking for a missing girl in San Francisco is framed by a Guatemalan hit man for a series of murders, in Bradley Spinelli‘s crime thriller, The Painted Gun. In Robert Arellano’s Havana Libre, Dr. Mano Rodriguez takes an undercover assignment to the most dangerous city in Latin America: […]

Cyd Zeigler & Jessica Luther– Miami Book Fair International, Miami, FL

Edge of Sports panel featuring Cyd Zeigler (Fair Play: How LGBT Athletes Are Claiming Their Rightful Place in Sports) and Jessica Luther (Unsportsmanlike Conduct: College Football and the Politics of Rape).