Books & Books presents RICHARD BLANCO discussing How to Love a Country: Poems, featuring an on-stage conversation with Mitchell Kaplan. Selected by President Obama to be the fifth inaugural poet in history, Richard Blanco followed in the footsteps of Robert Frost and Maya Angelou. The youngest, first Latino, first immigrant, and first openly gay person to serve…

Come meet contributor to the New Yorker of over 30 years, former SNL writer, Princeton University professor and the first woman to ever be elected to the Harvard Lampoon, Patricia Marx, and New Yorker staff cartoonist of over 800 cartoons, Roz Chast, as they talk about their latest book collaboration Why Don’t You Write My Eulogy Now So I Can Correct It?…

Books & Books is thrilled to host the iconic author of American Psycho and Less Than Zero, for his latest book White, his first in nearly a decade! Combining personal reflection and social observation, Bret Easton Ellis’s first work of nonfiction is an incendiary polemic about this young century’s failings, e-driven and otherwise, and at once an example, definition,…

From the gutters of Poverty Row came a movie that, perhaps more than any other, epitomizes the dark fatalism at the heart of film noir. As he hitchhikes his way from New York to Los Angeles, a down-on-his-luck nightclub pianist (Tom Neal) finds himself with a dead body on his hands and nowhere to run…

  Intuitive Art: Conservation, Exhibition and Artist Recognition is a dynamic multi-pronged project that utilizes conservation and exhibition of works by a significant under-recognized Miami-based intuitive artist Michael Scott Addis. For over 20 years Mr. Addis has been self-exhibiting his work out-of-doors on random walls of public buildings and electric light poles in the Little River and Little Haiti…

Acclaimed essayist and bookseller Mary Laura Philpott presents a charmingly relatable and wise memoir-in-essays about what happened after she checked off all the boxes on her successful life’s to-do list and realized she might need to reinvent the list—and herself.  Mary Laura Philpott thought she’d cracked the code: Always be right, and you’ll always be…

  Mitchell Kaplan has been a bookseller and has owned the independent bookstores Books & Books for over 35 years. If you love books, writers or are a passionate reader, this podcast is for you. Enter The Literary Life where every Saturday you’ll hear candid conversations with Mitchell and his guests. SUBSCRIBE + LISTEN HERE          …

Every Monday Evening in April: Chef Allen’s 5-Course, Plant-based Farm-to-Table Dinner A delicious meal, served community-style, surrounded by local growers Presented in collaboration with the Arsht Center and Urban Oasis Project     Chef Allen’s Monday Night Farm-to-Table Dinners This Month: Spring Green | This Week: Cambridge Monday, April 1, 6:30pm The Cafe at Books…

Join us every Saturday for story time! Children of all ages are invited with their parents to read a book, browse our shelves and have some literary fun with our crew! See you there! Coral Gables at 10:30am Suniland Shops at 11am