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AUGUST 2010

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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.  Or join our Facebook Group.

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 Our latest feature:

Stephen Crane: Expeditions and Affairs

 

Dariel Suarez traces the adventures that made Crane a Florida writer

 

 

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reviews by
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In Search of Florida's José Martí

 

Dariel Suarez learns the history behind a Florida literary landmark.

 

 

New:

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On Our Crime Writing Page...


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Edward Irvin reviews Michael Lister's Double ExposureRead it here.


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Read our review of Deborah Sharp's Mama Gets Hitched here.


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Read our review of Baja Florida here.


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"Check your need for plausibiity at the door, get comfortable, and settle into 242 pages of non-stop action, inexplicable character changes, and cheesy one-liners, all in the name of unadulterated literary bliss.  I enjoy a good revenge flick..."  Read our review of Wyatt's Revenge here.

On Our Tales & Legends Page



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

On Our Poetry Page

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Read our review of Bud Break at Mango House here.


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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 Nonfiction Page...



Read review of Tupperware Unsealed 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

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FBR Reports:
 
 We live-blogged the Miami Book Fair International Festival of Authors and the Street Fair.  Want to know what your favorite writer said, and what went on in sessions on everything from comedy to censorship? deep_carnivale_2009_poster_small.jpgTo read all about it, visit our Book Fair 2009 page.

Esther Martinez returns to Ybor City for Deep Carnivale: A Celebration of Words

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"She fills her stories with ne'er-do-wells who can't seem get it right no matter how hard they try,  but they keep right on trying..."  Read Joe Clifford's review of Florida Gothic Stories.


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James Barrett-Morison reviews Headz here.


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"The world is rife with temptation for a Jesus Boy the likes of Elwyn Parker, sixteen, member of the Church of Our Blessed Redeemer Who Walked Upon the Waters, Miami branch."

Read Kat Meads' review of Jesus Boy.


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Angela Kelsey reviews Connie May Fowler's How Clarissa Burden Learned to FlyRead it here.








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


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Read reconsideration of The Yearling here...

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Read review of Florida Rivers here


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Read review of Hiking the Florida Trail here...

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?"
                  

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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...

From the FBR Archives:

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

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

Esther Martinez reports from Ybor City on Deep Carnivale 2008

The FBR Staff live-blogs Miami Book Fair International 2008 and 2007.

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