ms. caplan and he joins us now on our set. how did this get started and when? >> this is the 28 the book fair and it was started because the president of miami-dade college called a number of us together in an attempt to bring life back to downtown miami was suffering from rough economic times and it is thought if we could bring literary culture to downtown we might be able to unite the community at the same time to bring some focus. >> host: the owner of books & books and your invited to participate. >> we had been opened two years. will be open and 30 years. >> host: what was a festival like 1982. >> the first was 1984 as a two day festival but even then we had significant authors, even allen ginsberg came the thing that was so heartening was when you thought of miami back in 1984 you did not think a lot of serious reading got done but what really happened was people started to stream into the book fair and we knew we were onto something. >> host: this is one of the few that is a weeklong. >> after two days it went to a full weekend and people were clamoring