

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: An Evening with Joe Pan and Reed Smith
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 14 Aug, 2025 at 07:00 pm – Thu, 14 Aug, 2025 at 08:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Joe Pan and Reed Smith discuss Joe's gripping, Florida-based debut FLORIDA PALMSAbout this EventBooks &amp; Books and the Books &amp; Books Literary Foundation are proud to present an evening with Joe Pan discussing Florida Palms: A Novel (Simon &amp; Schuster, $29.99). He will be in conversation with Reed Smith. The Outsiders meet Sons of Anarchy in this gripping debut about a group of young men dragged into a drug-running operation.***Please note: This event will take place at the Books &amp; Books in Coral Gables at 265 Aragon Ave. Tickets are FREE and books will be available for purchase at the event.Can't make the event?About the Book:The Outsiders meet Sons of Anarchy in this gripping debut about a group of young men dragged into a drug-running operation.It’s 2009, the height of the Great Recession. Best friends Eddy, Cueball, and Jesse are fresh out of high school and wild at heart, but the economy is in the dumps. With jobs scarce along Florida’s Space Coast, they join a furniture-moving company run by Cueball’s father, a gruff ex-con biker who’s supposedly retired from the fast life. But when a mysterious old boss arrives in town, the payload is switched out, and the young men are coerced into shipping a new designer drug up the East Coast.What is advertised as a bastion of brotherhood and respect quickly spirals into back-alley deals, bloodshed, and an all-out turf war that will test the bounds of love and friendship. Enticed by larger paychecks, and fueled by burgeoning drug habits, the young friends find themselves trapped between rank opportunists, warring gangsters, meth zombies, crazed bikers, and a blowgun-wielding hitman, all vying for a shot at the big time.Soaring, ambitious, and deeply humane, Florida Palms is a gritty coming-of-age story with enormous heart and an unflinching vision of the violence and inequities facing forgotten communities. In a relentless race against desperate circumstances, the young friends must fully embrace the crime life or abandon their loyalties and risk ending up face down in the muck of the unforgiving swamps.About the Author:Joe Pan is the author of five poetry books and founder of Brooklyn Arts Press, one of the smallest independent houses ever honored with a National Book Award in Poetry, and publisher of Augury Books, honored with a Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Poetry. His writing has appeared in the Boston Review, Hyperallergic, The New York Times, and Poets &amp; Writers, and he’s been profiled by Publishers Weekly, The Rumpus, and The Wall Street Journal. He grew up along the Space Coast of Florida and now lives in Los Angeles. With his wife he cofounded BAH, an activist group that serves unhoused populations with sleeping bags and goods. Florida Palms is his debut novel.About the Moderator:Reed Smith was born in Weimar, Texas, and holds degrees from The University of Texas and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He has worked as a paramedic, a teacher, a geriatric advance care practitioner, and an actor who performed at The Globe, Orange Tree, and Swan Theatres in England. He lives in Hollywood, Florida, with his wife and twin daughters. Declarations of Hunger is his debut collection of poems.  https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events10/banners/40e371b0-1eef-11f0-b1a8-95aba4063b67-rimg-w490-h740-dc040304-gmir.jpg
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## Event venue details

- **city**: Coral Gables
- **state**: FL
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Books & Books
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- **full address**: Books &amp; Books, 265 Aragon Avenue, Coral Gables, United States

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- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Thu, 14 Aug, 2025 at 07:00 pm
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  - **A:** Books &amp; Books, 265 Aragon Avenue, Coral Gables, United States
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