The Miami Book Fair International, an eight-day literary party in November is back bigger and better, this year and now being a hybrid Event with lots of activities online, it will be reachable to more people than ever,
It opens November 17 with six nights of readings and discussions with noted authors from the United States and around the world, and then on Friday it really kicks off. Over the weekend of 22nd – 24th November, the highlight will be more than 450 authors reading and discussing their work, including an excellent selection of diverse queer writers who between them cover so much of the LGBTQ spectrum.
Here then are just a few of Queerguru’s pick of MUST SEE WRITERS/EVENTS.
John Paul Brammer
is a queer, mixed-race Mexican American journalist who writes about race, gay love, and poppers. He writes an advice column on Twitter “Hola Papi.” where each week he shares a letter from a reader facing a quandary about modern queer life. His responses are witty, insightful packed full of jokes and more than a few references to his own life. He is a real joy to read : as is his rather wonderful debut book, “Hola Papi: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons,”
Brammer will be sharing the platform at the Miami Book Fair with Brian Broome who’s debut memoir Punch Me Up to the Gods: is about growing up in Ohio as a dark-skinned Black boy harboring crushes on other boys. Broome’s recounting of his experiences—in all their cringe-worthy, hilarious, and heartbreaking glory—reveal a perpetual outsider awkwardly squirming to find his way in. Indiscriminate sex and escalating drug use help to soothe his hurt, young psyche, usually to uproarious and devastating effect. Punch Me Up To The Gods has already been picking up awards such as The Kirkus Prize, Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year, and has been a New York Times Editors Pick.
In Conversation: On Hola Papi: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons & Punch Me Up To The Gods: A Memoir Saturday, November 20 @ 11:00 Room 3209 (Building 3, 2nd Floor 300 NE Second Ave., Miami,FL
Home in Florida: Latinx Writers and the Literature of Uprootedness is a powerful collection of contemporary voices. This compilation presents a selection of the best literature of displacement and uprootedness by some of the most talented contemporary Latinx writers who have called Florida home.
It features fiction, nonfiction, and poetry by Richard Blanco, Jaquira Díaz, Patricia Engel, Jennine Capó Crucet, Reinaldo Arenas, Judith Ortiz Cofer, and many others, this collection of renowned and award-winning contributors includes several who are celebrated in their countries of origin but have not yet been discovered by readers in the United States. The writers in this volume–first-, second-, and third-generation immigrants to Florida from Cuba, Mexico, Honduras, Perú, Argentina, Chile, and other countries–reflect the diversity of Latinx experiences across the state.
In Conversation: On Home in Florida: LatinX Writers and the Literature of Uprootedness Saturday, November 20 @ 6:00 pm
Following on from his poignant and gripping Not My Father’s Son, Tony and Olivier Award-winning actor, queer activist and wit Alan Cumming reflects on the durability of trauma and constructive ways to live with your past in this honest and life-affirming memoir. The charismatic and ebullient Cumming once again shows his wicked sense of humor as he has done so often before such as in his cable talk show called Eavesdropping with Alan Cumming.
In Conversation: On Baggage: Tales from a Fully Packed Life
Saturday, November 20 @ 6:00 pm
Chapman Conference Center (Building 3, 2nd Floor, Room 3210)
Moderated by author Julio Capó Jr.
this event will be live-streamed via iamiBookFairOnline.com.
FREE via TICKET
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