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JULY 2009

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The Florida Book Review features reviews of books with Florida settings or subjects, by Florida authors, or of special interest to Floridians, as well as interviews and essays about Florida's literary scene.

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memoir by
Dan Wakefield
 

New:

On Our Poetry Page







Read "Once Upon a Crime," Nick Garnett's reconsideration of Elmore Leonard's Stick here.

On Our Fiction Page...



Read review of The Misadventures of Oliver Booth here



Read John Bond's review of Shadow Country here

On Our Tales and Legends Page...



Read review of Florida's Ghostly Legends and Haunted Folklore Volume III here



Read review of Haunted Fort Lauderdale here



Read review of Florida's Unexpected Wildlife here

On Our Crime Writing Page...



Read review of Hell's Bay here



Read review of Bad Girl's Bar & Grill here

Check out FBR Reports: live-blogs and reporting from Florida's literary scene.25MBFI.jpg

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FBR Live-Blogs Miami Book Fair International


 
 
 
 
 
 
 Esther Martinez takes us to Ybor City
for the second annual
Deep Carnivale: a Celebration of Words. 





On Our Poetry Page...



Halfway Decent Sinners by Michael Cleary
(CustomWords, Paperback, 120 pp., $17.00)
Reviewed by Jesse Millner


          Perhaps every poet should drive a beer truck. Perhaps every poet should grow up with the rigorous rigmarole of Catholicism.  If that were to happen, then, and only then, would a poet craft a book as funny, sorrowful and beautiful as Michael Cleary’s Halfway Decent Sinners...(Read full review here)

On Our Travel Page...



Read review of Florida Rivers here



Read review of Hiking the Florida Trail here...

On Our Nonfiction Page...



Read review of Tupperware Unsealed here

FBR FEATURES:

Tennessee Williams in Key West
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 Join Pulitzer Prize winner Madeleine Blais as she takes us on her journey to the Key West of the late 70s to meet the playwright in her essay "Do You Want to See My Shrine?"
                  

PortraitofVLR.jpgThe Search for Florida's Forgotten Poet Laureate
 
 
Read Antolin Garcia Carbonell's Feature on Vivian Laramore Rader
 
 
 

JDM.jpgRereading John D. MacDonald

Keith Ferrell's "Memories of MacDonald, Memories of MacDonald's McGee"


Lynne Barrett reconsiders Pleasure Was My Business, by Florida's sultry Madam Sherry—whose book stirred things up as far away as Egypt...



Read review of Key West in Black & White here

On Our Classic Florida Reads Page...



Read reconsideration of The Yearling here...

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