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MAY 2008

Welcome!

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.

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.

williamscrop.jpgTennessee Williams in Key West
 
 
 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
 
 
 
 
And check out our Editor's blog on the history and role of state Poets Laureate.

New:

On Our Classic Florida Reads Page...

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Read review of Florida on Horseback here...

On Our Nonfiction Page...



Read review of Brother I'm Dying here...





Visit our new Politics page:

Lynne Barrett reviews Yellow Dog Democrats to Red State Republicans: Florida and its Politics Since 1940 by David R. Coburn. 

Tom De Marchi interviews Richard Grayson, author of Write-in:  Diary of a Congressional Candidate in Florida's Fourth District

 

On Our Music Page...



Read review of A Florida Fiddler Here...


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Read review of Fiddler's Curse Here...

On Our History Page...


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Read review of Cracker: The Cracker Culture here

On Our Florida Sports Page...



Read review of The Rise and Fall of Dodgertown here...

On Our Fiction Page...



Read review of All or Nothing here...



Read review of From May to December here...



Read review of Matacumbe here...



Read review of You Can't Get There From Here...

On Our Crime Writing Page...


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Read review of Below the Surface here

FBR FEATURES:

Hemingway:  Look-Alike Contest, review of Hemingway in Key West and a reconsideration of To Have and Have Not 

Look-Alike Winners


Miami Book Fair International

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Did you miss the 2007 Book Fair?  Read our Book Fair Page.

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