Partner Event: Miami Book Fair
The Books Are Coming.
And the readers and writers will follow, as they do by the hundreds of thousands every year for the Miami Book Fair International, an eight-day literary party in November.
The Fair will open Sunday, November 11ย with the popular Evenings Withโฆ series, featuring six nights of readings and discussions with noted authors from the United States and around the world.
Miami Finance Forum will be moderating a panel on November 18 at 12:30 between these two authors, stop by and say hello:
Alissa Quartย is the executive editor of the journalism non-profit Economic Hardship Reporting Project. She co-founded its current incarnation with Barbara Ehrenreich. She is also the author of four previous acclaimed books,ย Branded,ย Republic of Outsiders,ย Hothouse Kidsย and the poetry bookย Monetized. She writes the Outclassed column forย The Guardianย and has published features and reported commentary in many magazines and newspapers, most recently forย The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Nationย andย The New York Review of Books. She has won the Columbia Journalism Schoolโs 2018 Alumni Award and the LA Press Club Award for Commentary, was a 2010 Nieman fellow at Harvard University, and has been nominated for an Emmy and a National Magazine Award.ย Squeezed: Why Our Families Can’t Afford Americaย (Ecco) is her most recent book. Alissa Quart, executive editor of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, examines the lives of many middle-class Americans who can now barely afford to raise children. Through gripping firsthand storytelling, Quart shows how our country has failed its families. Her subjectsโfrom professors to lawyers to caregivers to nursesโhave been wrung out by a system that doesnโt support them, and enriches only a tiny elite.ย Squeezedย is an eye-opening page-turner. Powerfully argued, deeply reported, and ultimately hopeful, it casts a bright, clarifying light on families struggling to thrive in an economy that holds too few options.
Rowan Moore Geretyย is a journalist based in Miami. His writing has appeared inย The Atlantic,ย Foreign Policy, theย Miami Herald,ย Slate, andย Virginia Quarterly Review, and he has produced radio stories for NPR and PRI. He studied anthropology at Columbia University and was a Fulbright fellow in Mozambique.ย Go Tell the Crocodiles: Chasing Prosperity in Mozambiqueย (The New Press) is his first book.ย Go Tell the Crocodilesย explores the efforts of ordinary people to provide for themselves where foreign aid, the formal economy, and the government have fallen short. Author Rowan Moore Gerety tells the story of contemporary Mozambique through the heartbreaking and fascinating lives of real people, from a street kid who flouts Mozambiqueโs child labor laws to make his living selling muffins, to a riverside community that has lost dozens of people to crocodile attacks. Moore Gerety introduces us to a nation still coming to grips with a long civil war and the legacy of colonialism even as it wrestles with the toll of infectious disease and a wave of refugees, weaving stories together into a stunning account of the challenges facing countries across Africa.