Week of November 18, 2010
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BOOKS Thursday 11/18 LITERARY HEAVENThe Miami Book Fair International returns for the 27th year. Among the 300 authors confirmed to attend are tennis player Venus Williams, singer/songwriter Patti Smith, Sebastian Junger and more. Ends Nov. 21. Miami Dade College Wolfson Campus, 300 NE Second Ave., Miami. Details: www.miamibookfair.com. SPLINTERED SEGMENT Eugene Robinson, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for The Washington Post, discusses his book "Disintegration: The Splintering of Black America. Exploring 140 years of US black history, the book examines how the African American population has split into four disconnected groups — a small, influential elite, middle class majority, recent immigrants and the abandoned impoverished. Part of the Miami Book Fair International's "Evenings with Authors" series. 6 p.m. Miami Dade College Wolfson Campus, 300 NE Second Ave., Chapman Conference Center, room 3210 on the second floor of Building 3, Miami. $10. Details: www.miamibookfair.com. Saturday 11/20 PIANOS AND PARANORMALPianist Byron Janis signs copies of this new book "Chopin and Beyond — My Extraordinary Life in Music and the Paranormal." 10:30 a.m. Miami Dade College Wolfson Campus, 300 NE Second Ave., room 3410, Miami. Details: www.miamibookfair.com.
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