Friday, November 9, 2007

Miami Book Fair International Nov 4-11 2006

It’s Book Fair time again! Official kick off was last Sunday and this coming weekend is the Street Fair and author extravaganza. Hundreds of amazing writers back to back all weekend.

You can get full information at: http://www.miamibookfair.com/. Download the fairgoer’s guide for complete activities, author bios and parking info.


Some Highlights from Flor include:

Saturday:

Gen. Wesley Clark, Dave Barry (Miami’s own nationally syndicated humor columnist), Ralph Nader, Chris Matthews (host of MSNBC’s Hardball)

Sunday:

Paul Krugman (NYT op ed columnist), Christopher Hitchens (contributing editor to Vanity Fair, named one of “Top 100 Intellectuals”), Michael Ondaatje (Booker Prize winner whose work includes The English Patient), Andrés Oppenheimer (Pulitzer Prize winning, nationally syndicated columnist, Miami based), George Soros (intl financier and philanthropist, dedicated to promoting values of democracy and open society), Alvaro Vargas Llosa (writer and political commentator on international affairs with emphasis on Latin America, son of writer Mario Vargas Llosa).

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