MIAMI – This year, the colorful tents won’t spring up overnight on the streets lining the college campus. Swarms of authors, readers and students won’t flock to downtown Miami for the busy street fair weekend, lining up for signings and loading up tote bags with books.The Miami Book Fair is not coming to Miami Dade College Wolfson Campus this fall.
But that doesn’t mean there won’t be a book fair.The COVID-19 pandemic has done what 9/11 and Hurricane Andrew couldn’t do: It forced the fair, which began in 1984, to cancel its annual weeklong book frenzy at the college for the first time in 37 years.
But the show will go on virtually — and it will go on for free.The transition from live to virtual fair, which will feature programs in English.