Lawrence Wright tells the story of Al-Qaida and the road to 9/11: New Yorker writer Lawrence Wright takes readers inside the minds, motivations, operations and strategies of Al-Qaeda terrorists, offering reasons why Al-Qaeda cannot succeed
Nora Ephron admits Billy Crystal came up with the line that made her famous: Acclaimed essayist, novelist, Hollywood screenwriter and director Nora Ephron brings her wit to the Miami Book Fair International 2006 and offers the epiphanies of her writing career
Barack Obama makes big splash in Miami; then jumps into the pool of presidential hopefuls: U.S. Senator Barack Obama appears at sold out Miami Book Fair event to talk about his book, ('The Audacity of Hope'), and is greeted with 'Thank you, Mr. President--'
Bob Woodward offers interviews with Ford and Bush as cautionary tales on telling the 'truth': In an interview with Richard Norton Smith, Bob Woodward talks about journalism in America, interviewing Presidents Ford, Nixon, and Bush and the difficulties of keeping them honest
Helen Thomas and Myra MacPherson wonder if the watchdogs of democracy will ever bark again: Famed White House Press Corps reporter-turned-columnist Helen Thomas and former Washington Post/New York Times/Vanity Fair reporter Myra MacPherson team up to discuss how the watchdogs of democracy, from I.F. Stone and the Kennedy Administration to today, lost their bark
Washington Post, October 1, 2006, features 'Video Man' (a.k.a. Kurt Aldag) founder of iReadNet: Washington Post publishing industry reporter Bob Thompson covers National Book Festival through the camera lense of iReadNet founder and editor-in-chief Kurt Aldag
Sara Nelson, Jennifer Baumgardner, Katha Pollitt, and Eyal Press re-focus abortion issue for 2007: 'Publishers Weekly' editor-in-chief Sara Nelson heads panel of pro-choice activists/authors in discussion of Roe v. Wade in the context of the post-election 2006 power shift in Washington.
Donald Hall assumes lofty role of U.S. Poet Laureate at National Book Festival: Donald Hall is publicly introduced as the new U.S. Poet Laureate at the National Book Festival and reads at a symposium on 'Love and Death' at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center where his wife, the poet Jane Kenyon, had been cared for in her last days.
Isabel Allende stirs passions in Miami: Isabel Allende brings her mix of romanticism, humor and sometimes magic, oftentimes hard-boiled realism to the 23rd Miami Book Fair International.
Monica Wood, Ernie's Ark: Stories.
Literary Fiction: Pushcart Prize-Winning fiction writer, Monica Wood, reads from her new collection of linked short stories set in a small milltown in northern Maine. (Shuffle Step, 9 minutes).
Taylor Branch rewinds 'The Clinton Tapes'.
Pulitzer Prize winning historian Taylor Branch rewinds 'The Clinton Tapes' (now available in paperback) at the 2009 Miami Book Fair.
Steven Raichlen preaches the worldwide wonders of barbecuing.
Speaking at the 2008 Miami Book Fair International, barbecue 'evangelist' and award-winning cookbook author Steven Raichlen offers a spirited account of the genesis of barbecuing around the world, and the wide variety of cultural influences in fire-making, seasonings, and meats.
Geoff Johns leads the Green Lantern to new universes in the Silver Age of comics.
The creators, writers and illustrators of the Green Hornet celebrate the 50th anniversary of the birth of Hal Jordan and the Silver Age of comic books.
All the world's your stage on AuthorCams.
Nothing sells a book better than an author reading and talking about his or her work directly to his or her market.
Carl Hiaasen rips O.J. Simpson, Miami Herald, Mark Foley, Katherine Harris and south Florida follies
