Literature

Books and Books. May 2nd and 3rd, 2008. 8:00 p.m. Come hear Michael Tonello’s hilarious insider’s account of his years spent globe-trotting in search of the holy grail of handbags: the Birkin. For more than twenty years, the Hermès Birkin bag has been the iconic symbol of fashion, luxury, and wealth. Though the bag is often seen dangling from the arms of … +

Books and Books Coral Gables. April 28th, 2008. 8:00 p.m. “I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want to swim in the river. I want to feel the current.” So writes Mamah Borthwick Cheney in her diary as she struggles to justify her clandestine love affair with Frank Lloyd Wright. Four years earlier, in 1903, … +

Books and Books Coral Gables. April 30th, 2008. 8:00 p.m. A genuine psychological thriller, Trauma is McGrath’s most addictive and enthralling novel yet. McGrath’s hero, Charlie Weir, is a psychiatrist specializing in trauma victims in Manhattan in the 1970s. His family is comprehensively dysfunctional – abandoned by his father, his mother ravaged by that betrayal, and his brother Walt, a successful artist, … +

April 29th, 2008. 8:00 p.m. Author Alexander McCall Smith will be reading and signing his recent book The Miracle at Speedy Motors at Books and Books Coral Gables on April 29th, 2008. In the latest installment of this infinitely enjoyable and best-selling series, Precious Ramotswe is doing what she does best – helping people with their problems and enjoying the simple pleasures … +

Coral Gables Congregation Church. May 6th, 2008. 7:30 p.m. With her trademark passion, intelligence, and devastating wit, Huffington Post editor in chief Arianna Huffington tackles the issues that are crucial to this year’s presidential election and, even more so, to the fate of the country.

Books and Books Coral Gables. April 26th, 2008. 5:00 p.m. The National Book Critics Circle and Books and Books present Good Reads Poetry Panel with poets Richard Blanco, Spencer Reece, Emma Trelles, Elisa Albo and moderator Chauncey Mabe, Sun-Sentinel book editor.

Books and Books Bal Harbour. April 21st, 2008. 7:30 p.m. Casey Han’s four years at Princeton gave her many things, “but no job and a number of bad habits.” Casey’s parents, who live in Queens, are Korean immigrants working as dry cleaners, desperately trying to hold on to their culture and their identity.

Books and Books. April 10th, 2008. 8:00 p.m. Books and Books Coral Gables is presenting an evening of reading and discussion with author David Meyer about his most recent work Twenty Thousand Roads: The Ballad of Gram Parsons and His Cosmic American Music. Gram Parsons lived fast, died young, and left a beautiful corpse – a corpse his friends stole, took to … +

Presented by Tigertail. From Mar 24th through Mar 28th, 2008. Tigertail Productions presents WordSpeak with Dasha Kelly. Wisconsin-based African-American writer and performer Dasha Kelly comes to Miami for an artist residency from March 24th through March 28th to launch the third year of Tigertail Productions WordSpeak, an ongoing spoken word program for South Florida teens. Kelly’s work blends the musical cadences of … +

Books and Books Coral Gables. March 19th, 2008. 8:00 p.m. We raise our children to be independent and lead fulfilling lives, but when they finally do, staying close becomes more complicated than ever. And for every bewildered mother who wonders why her children don’t call, there is a frustrated son or daughter who just wants to be treated like a grownup. Now, … +

January 30th, 2008. On Wednesday, January 30th 2008, 131 projects invites the public to celebrate the book release of "Deconstruction". This Book features artwork produced during the past seven years as well as photography depicting the environment and experiences that influenced it. Miami's ongoing transformation as a city is potrayed with a series of pictures that create the theme of this book.

Books and Books Coral Gables. January 8th, 2008. 8:00 p.m. Meet author Eric Weiner as he reads his most recent book The Geography of Bliss and takes readers on a whirlwind tour of countries that are quietly pursuing the most American of obsessions – the pursuit of happiness – or, in the crabby author's case, moments of "un-unhappiness." Weiner doesn't profess to … +

Bill Cosford Cinema. January 18th, 2008. 7:30 p.m. The Bill Cosford Cinema at the University of Miami, located at 1111 Memorial Drive in Coral Gables, is presenting a night of film screening and discussion with author Paul Auster, who will be presenting his newest film The Inner Life of Martin Frost to be followed by a discussion about the process of screenwriting, … +

Celebrating 25 years of Cagney and Lacey. December 21st, 2007. Books and Books Coral Gables is hosting a night of reading and discussion with two special guests; author Barney Rosenzweig and actress Sharon Gless who will be celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the famous television series Cagney and Lace and the launching of Rosenzweig's new book Cagney and Lace …and Me.

Books and Books. October 29th, 2007. 8:00p.m. Books and Books Coral Gables, in collaboration with the Women of Distinction Series, FIU Women’s Studies Center, invites the public to share an evening with Susan Faludi for reading and discussing her most recent book The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post 9/11 America. In this most original examination of America’s post-9/11 culture, Faludi … +

Books and Books Coral Gables. October 19th, 2007. 6:00 p.m. While most think of Cuba as a mythical island of rum, rumba, and revolution, period photographs reveal a more complex place. I Was Cuba is an original look at Cuban history as seen through the Ramiro Fernandez Collection – arguably the world's leading archive of Cuban photos and ephemera. I Was Cuba … +

Books and Books Coral Gables. October 13th, 2007. 8:00 p.m. David Dunn will be offering a lecture, performance and book signing titled Why Do Children and Whales Sing at Books and Books Coral Gables.  For over 30 years, David Dunn has been recording the natural world as a sound artist, composer, and bioacoustician. This has led him to explore a wide range … +

Miami Beach Chamber of Commerce. October 17th, 2007. 6:30 p.m. On October 17 at 6:30 p.m., the Miami Beach Historical Association presents a reading, book signing and discussion by Laura Cerwinske, author of South Beach Style at the Miami Beach Chamber of Commerce Visitor Center located at 1920 Meridian Avenue. Free and open to the public, the event sponsored by Books and … +

Books and Books Coral Gables. October 11th, 2007. 8:00 p.m. Meet author Amy Cohen in a reading and discussion on her latest novel, The Late Bloomer's Revolution. This book is a sparkling and reassuring memoir, funny, heartwarming, and above all, real. Filled with observations sweet and bittersweet, this reading will be irresistible to all who believe their greatest moments are yet to … +

Miami Science Museum. October 6th, 2007. 1:00 p.m. Miami Science Museum is presenting a lecture by David Dunn titled Listening at the Edges at its Space Gallery located at 3280 South Miami Avenue. For over three decades there has been an ongoing discourse addressing the role that the sonic arts can play in increasing our collective awareness to environmental issues. A variety … +

Books and Books Coral Gables. October 1st, 2007. 8:00 p.m. In this return to nonfiction after two critically acclaimed works of fiction, Mary Gordon gives us a rich, bittersweet memoir about her mother, their relationship and her role as daughter in her newest title Circling My Mother: A Memoir. Anna Gagliano Gordon, who died in 2002 at the age of 94, lived … +