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JANUARY 2012
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The Florida Book Review features reviews of books with Florida settings or subjects, or of special interest to Floridians, as well as interviews and essays about Florida's literary scene.

Come in and sample our reviews and features.  Read the blog.  And visit again soon!  If you'd like to join our mailing list click here

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FBR Reports:
 
Year-round keep up with our coverage of Florida literary events on our Blog page.
 
 
 
 
 
 
Special report: Our bloggers were all over the Festival of Authors and the Street Fair, November 19-20. Visit the Fair on our MBFI 2011 page.
 

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 Florida Literary History:

 

A Poet's Escape: The Key West Idyll (and Turmoil) of Wallace Stevens

 

A FBR Florida literary history feature by Dariel Suarez

New:

On Our Crime Writing Page
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In Tim Dorsey's latest Serge A. Storms infilltrates the spy world. Ed Irvin, on our Crime page, says Storms is "either the luckiest dunce in the world or the clumsiest genius."

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What new suffering is Jim Hall putting Thorn through in Dead LastRead Ed Irvin's review here.

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Ed Irvin says the only drawback to An Appetite for Murder is danger to your New Year's diet resolutionsRead the review here.

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Ed Irvin reviews the latest by H. Terrell Griffin, Collateral DamageRead the review here.

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Ed Irvin reviews Michael Lister's The Big Goodbye and Paul Levine's Lassiter on our crime writing page.Lassitercover.jpg
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Hollywood comes to Himmarshee, Florida. Read Ed Irvin's review of Deborah Sharp's Mama Sees Stars on our crime writing page.
On Our Florida History Page


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Molly McGreevy tours Fifteen Florida Cemetaries by Lola Haskins. Read the review here.


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"Long before interstate highways carved up Florida into a series of marquee destinations connected by wide, sterile and efficient thoroughfares, long before Disney came and transformed thousands of acres of farm land into a fantasy land, there was a different Florida..."  Read Nick Garnett's review of Cypress Gardens, America's Tropical Wonderland: How Dick Pope Invented Florida.

On Our Environment Page


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"Belleville takes the reader to places that most people figure are already gone." Justin Bendell reviews Bill Belleville's Salvaging the Real Florida here.


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Post-Apocalyptic Florida, Fifties Style, a Classic Florida Read


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Frank Tota reconsiders Pat Frank's vision of post-apocalyptic Florida in his 1959 novel Alas, Babylon here.

On Our Children's Page


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Sean Kenniff reviews the adventures of Charlie Pierce as he goes on the great plume bird expedition in The Last Egret here.


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Louis K. Lowy reviews the children's Florida history novel Kidnapped in Key West here.



Read James Barrett-Morison's review of Over in the Ocean here.

On Our Young Adult Page


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Deb Alberto reviews the Ginny Rorby's Lost in The River of GrassRead it here.

On Our Tales & Legends Page



Read Jamie May's review of Fearsome Florida Creatures here.



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

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From the FBR Archives:

HemingwayKW.jpgRead FBR Reports, live-blogging and reporting from Florida's literary fairs and festivals:

The FBR Staff live-blogs Miami Book Fair International 2010 here, and in our archives 2009, 2008 and 2007.

Esther Martinez reports from Ybor City on Deep Carnivale 2008 and 2009

P. Scott Cunningham is a Young Man in A Sea of Look-Alikes at Hemingway Days Festival 2007

Florida Politics: Always a Brawl?
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As candidates in the Presidential primary crisscross Florida, James Elens reviews Red Pepper and Curious George, the story of a 1950 campaign that still reverberates today, on our Florida Politics page.
 
What's New in Florida Fiction

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Pamela Akins reviews Diana Abu-Jaber's Birds of Paradise, a "contemporary tale of family estrangement and love," on our Fiction page.

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James Elens reviews Flaherty's Run, Henry Hoffman's "engrossing story of love and revenge in Florida right after the close of World War II," on our Fiction page.

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Pamela Akins takes us to Rhett Devane's Chattahoochee, FL for some of Mama's Comfort Food. Read her review on our Fiction page.


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Yes, Nowhere is a place in Florida, in 1954. Read Frank Tota's review on our Fiction page.


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"Here, in this Petri dish of intolerable heat and desperation, we find the novel’s central characters."  Read J. David Gonzalez's review of Citrus County.

On Our Poetry Page

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"In Lawrence Hetricks's Derelict Tributaries, each word is born out of the dark back-water of the poet's memories." Read Guillermo Cancio-Bello's review here.

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Poems that work to "burn the underbrush away." Stephanie Woolley-Larrea reviews The Animals Beyond Us by Michael Hettich here.


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"With Tropicalia a new voice leaps onto the scene..." Danielle Sellers reviews Tropicalia by Emma Trelles here.


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On Our Nonfiction Page...


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"Memoirs are all about setting the record straight, and Pat MacEnulty's remarkable and riveting Wait Until Tomorrow is no exception."  Read Madeleine Blais's review here .


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FBR FEATURES:

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Florida Style

Memoir by Dan Wakefield

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?"
                  

Florida's Literary Landmarks Features
 
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Dariel Suarez tracks down the Floridastephen_crane.jpg adventures of  José Martí
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Read Antolin Garcia Carbonell's Feature on Vivian Laramore Rader
 
 
 

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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...

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