The Authors are Coming! Interviews & Giveaways from MBFI

by BPhipps on September 29, 2011 in Book Fairs

The Miami Book Fair International is gearing up and we’ll be interviewing dozens of authors, hosting chats and sponsoring book giveaways. Here is a partial list of books that we are preparing to discuss and we would LOVE to have your input. Do you have a favorite author that is going to the Fair? Are you attending? Let us know, post your comments and questions below for the authors and we’ll read them over the air.

Here is the most recent Author Interviews list:

Aziz, Shajen Joy – Discover the Gift; Crown
Barr, Allan H. – China in Ten Words ; Pantheon
Beasley, Sandra – Don’t Kill The Birthday Girl: Tales From an Allergic Wife; Crown
Belafonte, Harry – My Song: A Memoir; Knopf
Boof, Kola – The Sexy Part of the Bible; Akashic Books
Borowitz, Andy – The Borowitz Report; Simon and Schuster
Borowitz, Andy – The 50 Funniest American Writers* (*according to Andy Borowitz): A Humor Anthology from Mark Twain to The Onion; Library of America
Brackenbury, Rosalind – Becoming George Sand; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Brickell, Beth – William and Mary Brickell: Founders of Miami and Fort Lauderdale; History Press
Brooks, David – The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement; Random
House
Brun, Thierry – Napoleon’s Chinese Spy;
Buhle, Paul – Yiddishkeit: Jewish Vernacular and the New Land; Abrams
Cheuse, Alan – Songs of Slaves in the Desert; Sourcebooks
Cole, Henry – A Nest For Celeste: A Story About Art, Inspiration and the Meaning of Home;
Connors, Michael – Splendor of Cuba; Rizzoli USA
Cortes, Ricardo – Go the Fuck to Sleep; Akashic Books
Daniels, Jim Ray – Tigertail, a South Florida Annual; Tigertail
Daniels, Jim Ray – Trigger Man: More Tales of the Motor City; Michigan State University Press
Deb, Siddhartha – The Beautiful and the Damned: A Portrait of the New India; Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Denton, Travis – The Burden of Speech; C & R Press
Edwards, Bob – A Voice in the Box: My Life in Radio; University of Kentucky Press
Eilperin, Juliet – Demon Fish: Travels Through the Hidden World of Sharks; Pantheon
Farmer, Paul – Haiti After the Earthquake; PublicAffairs
Gassenheimer, Linda – Fast and Flavorful: Great Diabetes Meals from Market to Table; American Diabetes Association
George , Nelson – The Plot Against Hip Hop; Akashic Books
Glidden, Sarah – How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less; Vertigo
Godwin, Peter – The Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe; Little, Brown and Company
Graham, Richard – Government Issue: Comics for the People, 1940s-2000s; Abrams
Groom, Kelle – I Wore the Ocean in the Shape of a Girl; Free Press
Gutierrez, Sandra – The New Southern-Latino Table; The University of North Carolina Press
Hamilton, Gabrielle – Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef; Random House
Harris, Jessica B. – High On The Hog: A Culinary Journey from Africa to America; Bloomsbury
Hauser, Brooke – The New Kids: Big Dreams and Brave Journeys at a High School for Immigrant Teens; Free Press
Hopkins, Ellen – Perfect; Simon & Schuster Children’s
Jacobsen, John G. – Yoo Hoo, Mrs. Tannenbaume; Skyhorse Publishing
Jordan, River – Praying for Strangers: An Adventure of the Human Spirit; Berkley/Penguin
Kennedy, Kostya – 56: Joe DiMaggio and the Last Magic Number in Sports;
Kurlansky, Mark – Hank Greenberg: A Hero Who Didn’t Want to Be One; Riverhead Books
Levy, Debbie – The Year of Goodbyes: A True Story of Friendship, Family, and Farewells; Hyperion Books for Children
MacEnulty, Pat – Wait Until Tomorrow: A Daughter’s Memoir; Feminist Press
Mansbach, Adam – Go the Fuck to Sleep; Akashic Books
Marley, Cedella – One Love; Chronicle Books
Mayor, Mireya – Pink Boots and a Machete: My Journey From NFL Cheerleader to National Geographic Explorer ; National Geographic
McGinniss, Joe – The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin; Crown
Medina, Pablo – The Man Who Wrote on Water; Hanging Loose Press
Mortenson, Greg – Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Education in Afghanistan and Pakistan; Penguin Books
Nelson, Kadir – We Are The Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball; Hyperion Books for Children
Orleans, Susan – Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend; Simon & Schuster
Painter, Nell Irvin – The History of White People; Norton
Potter, Will – Green is the New Red; City Lights Books
Prager, Ellen – Sex, Drugs, and Sea Slime: The Oceans’ Oddest Creatures and Why They Matter; University of Chicago Press
Rasenberger, Jim – The Brilliant Disaster: JFK, Castro, and America’s Doomed Invasion of Cuba’s Bay of Pigs ; Scribner
Sabuda, Robert – Chanukah Lights; Candlewick
Schmidt, John R. – The Unraveling: Pakistan in the Age of Jihad; Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Seth, – The Great Northern Brotherhood of Canadian Cartoonists; Drawn & Quarterly
Shiga, Jason – Empire State: A Love Story; Abrams
Shine, T.M. – Nothing Happens Until It Happens to You; Crown
Silko, Leslie Marmon – The Turquoise Ledge; Viking
Skipper, Jason – Hustle; Press 53
Sobel, Dava – A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos; Bloomsbury
Southgate, Martha – The Taste of Salt; Algonquin Books
Stuckey-French, Elizabeth – The Revenge of the Radioactive Lady; Doubleday
Styron, Alexandra – Reading My Father: A Memoir; Scribner
Tomine, Adrian – Scenes From an Impending Marriage; Drawn & Quarterly
Vad, Vijay Dr. – Stop PainI:n flammation Relief for an Active Life; Hay House
Van Natta Jr., Don – Wonder Girl: The Magnificent Sporting Life of Babe Didrikson Zaharias; Little, Brown and Company
Watkins, Norma – The Last Resort: Taking on the Mississippi Cure;
Whouley, Kate – Remembering the Music, Forgetting the Words: Travels with Mom in the Land of
Dementia; Beacon Press
Wilkerson, Isabel – The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration ; Vintage Books
Willis, Deborah – Posing Beauty: African American Images from the 1890s to Present; Norton
Yang, Belle – Forget Sorrow: An Ancestral Tale; W.W. Norton
Zamore, Rabbi Mary L. – The Sacred Table: Creating a Jewish Food Ethic; CCAR Press