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TOM MILLER has enlightened and entertained audiences at major book fairs, universities, and writers' conferences with his lively talks about his books and the many places his journeys have taken him. To arrange for Tom Miller to speak at your event, click here to inquire about available dates.

NEWS

                  . . . from Europe
The Cultural Promotion office of Spain's Castilla-La Mancha regional government is helping Tom out during summer '09 as he researches his next book there.

           . . . from North America
In April ’09 Cinco Puntos Press, a terrific publishing house in El Paso, contracted with Tom to bring out Revenge of the Saguaro, a completely revised, expanded, and updated edition of Jack Ruby’s Kitchen Sink. ROTS will come out in January 2010.

For his "constant and energetic support" of the yearly Patagonia (Ariz.)Writers Roundup, on Valentine's Day 2009 Tom received the first annual Ann Caston Award from the Friends of the Patagonia (Ariz.) Library.

            . . . from South America
May 30, 2008, Tom Miller was honored in a ceremony in the Centro Histórico of Quito, with a proclamation designating him a Huésped Ilustre de Quito (Illustrious Guest of Quito) for his literary contribution to Ecuador, especially The Panama Hat Trail. The proclamation, a handsome 11”x16” certificate with a blood-red ribbon running down its side under the elaborate Quito city seal, was signed by the mayor.

 


 

 

Trading With the Enemy
 

“…may just be the best travel book about Cuba ever written.”
   -- Lonely Planet, Cuba

“…required reading for anyone who proposes to visit – or even talk about – Cuba today.”
   -- The Reader’s Companion to Cuba

“…gracefully written, sympathetic, and clear-eyed.”
   -- Kirkus Reviews

“Compassion and humor…desultory charm and sympathy for the underdog.”
   -- Washington Post Book World

 

 Trading With the Enemy
A Yankee Travels Through Castro’s Cuba

Trading With the Enemy, Tom Miller’s book about Cuba, has stayed in print since it first came out in 1992. Last Fall, Basic Books, the publisher who’s kept it in paperback for more than a decade, brought out a brand spanking new edition, with a wonderful cover photograph (by Janis Lewin, taken in Holguín Province) and a fresh introduction by Miller. The new intro touches on Castro the elder – “fading away, not with his boots on, rather, his hospital slippers” – and the younger Castro who, regarding relations with the United States in Miller’s imagination, tells his people, “let’s wipe the slate clean.”
The new release is available from all the usual sources – bookstores, on-line vendors, and even this web site if you click on the title or the cover. As Buffalo Bob would say, “Look for it soon on your grocer’s counter!”

    ENGLISH | German

 

 

 

Also By Tom Miller

PUBLIC APPEARANCES

July 2010
Port Townsend Writers’ Conference
Travel Writing – 1 week workshop
Click here for details of 2009 PTWC

September 8 & 9, 2009 (Tues.-Wed.)
MIAMI UNIVERSITY, OXFORD OHIO
Tuesday, 4 pm
“Writing About Your International Experience”
Howe Center for Writing Excellence
Wednesday, 4:30 pm
“Voices from Cuba: The Revolution and the New Millennium”
MacMillan Hall

April 26, 2009 (Sun.)
Los Angeles Times Festival of Books
UCLA campus
12:30 – 1:30 pm
Lenart Auditorium, Fowler Museum
“America 2.0 – Who We Are Becoming”
3- 4 pm
Hoy (Spanish-language daily) Cultural Stage
“Language and Literacy: The Importance of Multi-lingual Abilities”
click here for details

March 14-15, 2009 (Sat.-Sun.)
TUCSON FESTIVAL OF BOOKS
Univ. of Arizona campus
Saturday, 12:30 – 1:30 pm
Talk at UA Alumni/Las Comadres de Las Américas author tent
UA Mall
Saturday, 2:30 - 3:30 pm
Conversation with Elmore Leonard
UA Student Union, Ballroom South
Sunday, 12:30 – 1:30 pm
Talk at UA Alumni/Las Comadres de Las Américas author tent
UA Mall
Sunday, 2:30 - 3:30 pm
Travel Writing panel
UA Integrated Learning Center
Book signing to follow all events
click here for details

February 14 (Saturday), Valentine’s Day
10 am – 3 pm
Writers Round-Up
Cady Hall
Patagonia, Ariz.
click here for details

December 5 & 6, 2008 (Fri. & Sat.)
Fri. 6 - 8 pm
Sat. 10 am - 1 pm
Holiday Book Fair
Arizona Historical Society
949 E. Second St.
Tucson, Ariz. 

November 1, 2008 (Saturday)
3 - 4 pm
Texas Book Festival
State Capitol #E2.010
Austin, Texas
click here for details

October 25, 2008 (Saturday)
3:00 - 3:45 pm
St. Pete Times Festival of Reading
St. Petersburg, Fla.
click here for details

October 16, 2008 (Thursday)
8:00 pm
Reeves Theatre
“Trading With the Enemy: 20 Years of Travel Though Castro’s Cuba”
University of Tampa
Tampa, Fla.

October 10, 2008
2 - 3:30 pm
“Trading With the Enemy: 20 Years of Travel Through Castro’s Cuba”
Latin American Studies Charlas Communications Bdg. #206
University of Arizona, Tucson
Open to the public

September 19, 2008 (Friday)
11:15 am - 12:30 pm
REFORMA National Conference
(National Association to Promote Library and Information Services to Latinos and the Spanish-Speaking)
El Paso, Texas
click here for details

June 26, 2008 (CANCELLED)
Sanibel Leadership Conference
Sanibel Island, Florida

May 28-29, 2008 (Wed.-Thurs.)
I Conferencia Internacional sobre Moritz Thomsen
Centro Cultural Benjamín Carrión
Quito, Ecuador

May 23, 2008 (Friday)
5 pm
Presentation of the Geotourism Map of the Baja California Peninsula
National Geographic Society,
Center for Sustainable Destinations
La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico

March 31, 2008 (Monday)
Arizona Refugee Resettlement Program
Black Canyon Conference Center
Phoenix, Ariz.
Details: 480-893-7547

March 29, 2008 (Saturday)
Virginia Festival of the Book
Charlottesville, VA
click here for details

February 16, 2008
1 - 5 pm
Writers Round-Up
Cady Hall
Patagonia, Ariz.

February 14, 2008
2:00 pm
Institute for Learning in Retirement
Catalina Vista Recreation Center
14055 N. Del Webb Blvd.
Sun City Vistoso
Oro Valley, Ariz.
Open to all Sun City residents

November 20, 2007
Library/Special Collections
University of Arizona
Tucson, Ariz.

November 14-15, 2007
Arizona Library Association
Mesa, Ariz.

November 10-11, 2007
Miami Book Fair International
Miami, Fla.

November 2-3, 2007
Vegas Valley Book Festival
Las Vegas, Nev.

October 30, 2007
7:30 pm
Grosvenor Auditorium
National Geographic Society
Washington, D.C.

October 30, 2007 (POSTPONED)
8:30 am
Treasury Executive Institute
(private event)
Washington, D.C.

October 11, 2007
6:30 pm
English As a Second Language Success
    Awards
LaGrange Park, Illinois

Tom Miller has been writing about Latin America and the American Southwest for more than thirty years, bringing us extraordinary stories of ordinary people. Miller’s highly acclaimed adventure books include The Panama Hat Trail about South America, On the Border, an account of his travels along the U.S.-Mexico frontier, Trading With the Enemy, which takes readers on his journeys through Cuba, and, about the American Southwest, Jack Ruby’s Kitchen Sink, which won the Lowell Thomas Award for Best Travel Book in 2001. Additionally, he has edited two compilations, Travelers’ Tales Cuba, and Writing on the Edge: A Borderlands Reader.


BIO

Miller, a veteran of the underground press of the 1960s, has appeared in Smithsonian, The New Yorker, LIFE, The New York Times, Natural History, and many other publications. He wrote the introduction to Best Travel Writing – 2005, and has led educational tours through Cuba for the National Geographic Society and other organizations. His collection of some eighty versions of “La Bamba” led to his Rhino Records release, “The Best of La Bamba.” His book On the Border has been optioned by Productvision for a theatrical film.

Miller was born and raised in Washington, D.C., attended college in Ohio, and since 1969 has lived in Arizona 65 miles north of the Mexican border. He has appeared on NBC, NPR, CNN, HBO, XM, and CSPAN, among other broadcast outlets, and was a major contributor to the four-volume Encyclopedia Latina.

Well-traveled through the Americas, Miller has taught writing workshops in four countries and his books have been published in Europe and Latin America as well as the United States. In recognition of his work the University of Arizona Library has acquired Miller’s archives and mounted a major exhibit of the author’s papers. He has been affiliated with that school’s Latin American Area Center since 1990, and makes his home in Tucson with his wife Regla Albarrán.

The Panama Hat Trail

“Among the best travel books ever written”
-- National Geographic Traveler

 
 

ENGLISH | German | Spanish | French | Dutch 

 

 

How I Learned English

 “…a book of high linguistic adventure.”
-- Frank McCourt

“Essential reading”
-- Los Angeles Times

 ENGLISH | Spanish

 

 

On the Border

“Miller writes with wit, compassion, and truth.”
-- The Lone Star Review

“Mr. Miller has drawn a lively sketch of this unruly, unpredictable place.”
-- New York Times Book Review

ENGLISH | Spanish | French

 

 

Writing on the Edge
A Borderlands Reader

“Miller’s anthology is extraordinarily rich, complex, and unsettling.”
-- Los Angeles Times

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Jack Ruby's Kitchen Sink

Winner! Lowell Thomas Award, Best Travel Book of the Year (2001)

“[Miller is] a superb reporter and a slyly funny stylist. This is a compulsively readable book by one of our best non-fiction writers.”
-- San Francisco Chronicle

                            ENGLISH | German

 

 

 

Travelers’ Tales Cuba

“What Tom Miller has put together in Travelers’ Tales Cuba is as ‘Inside Cuba’ as you can get.”
-- Elmore Leonard, author of Cuba Libre

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Arizona: The Land and The People

“A treasure of information – finely crafted – splendid photography – a very special book.”
-- Philadelphia Inquirer


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The Assassination Please Almanac

“This sourcebook/collection is the nerviest in years”
-- Rolling Stone

 

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Tom Miller Interviews

A Conversation with Tom Miller

See Tom’s panel discuss How I Learned English on CSPAN2’s Book-TV
(click here, then on the red WATCH oblong on upper right)

Tom makes it to the World Series!

Interview with Tom in the Madrid daily ABC

 

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