Miami Book Fair: an immigration mystery, bilingual odes to Miami and a post-literate world

Nov 21, 2025
50 mins

Episode Description

On this episode of The South Florida Roundup, we talked with the award-winning Miami journalist Mirta Ojito about her debut novel Deeper Than the Ocean — and the immigration mysteries it solves [01:09]. We also spoke with Oscar Fuentes — the Biscayne Poet — and got to hear his odes to Miami in English and Spanish…with a little music [18:56]. And Miami Book Fair co-founder Mitchell Kaplan discussed why reading, against all odds, still has a future [36:37].
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