A podcast focusing on the forgotten, undervalued, underrated, misrepresented, and oddball literature, film, media, music, and assorted pop-cultural relics of the Sunshine State.

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  • Florida Storm Stories
    Florida, sadly, does not lack for storms, as many of us have been reminded in the last month. The sensory evidence of Helene’s and Milton’s rampages is everywhere, not just in sights of disaster and catastrophe and ruin, but in the smells of waterlogged furniture and moldering possessions, the sounds of generators and chainsaws and…
  • Laura van den Berg and “State of Paradise” – Season 10, Episode 8
    Laura van den Berg’s new novel State of Paradise gave me serious Franz Kafka and David Lynch vibes. It contains some of the weirdest evocations of Florida I’ve ever encountered, and that’s saying a lot. I’m not sure we even touched on half of what this book contains, thematically, in this great conversation to wrap…
  • Alex Gurtis and “When the Ocean Comes to Me” – Season 10, Episode 7
    Fans of climate-change poetry and the struggles most people endure under late-stage capitalism in Florida will love Alex Gurtis’ When the Ocean Comes to Me. And if you aren’t, but you are into imagism, haiku, and/or prose poetry, you will still love our conversation about his new chapbook from Bottlecap Press. Further Reading
  • Catching Up With P. Scott Cunningham – Season 10, Episode 6
    Leaving Florida after you’ve built a huge legacy with a project like O, Miami must be hard. We welcome back P. Scott Cunningham to talk about relocating to Illinois, how O, Miami will carry on, some rising South Florida authors, and the strange state Florida literary education currently finds itself in. Further Reading
  • Tyler Gillespie and “Florida Man: Poems Revisited” – Season 10, Episode 5
    Poet Tyler Gillespie’s 2018 collection Florida Man is BACK! The 2024 reissue contains 20 new poems under the title Heat Advisory. He stops by the clubhouse to talk about the book’s republication, how Florida has changed since 2018, and why QR codes are aesthetically cool (among other topics). Further Reading
  • Gale Massey and “Rising” – Season 10, Episode 4
    Gale Massey presents a varied cast of imperfect, sometimes violent or reckless, but ultimately sympathetic characters in her 2021 collection Rising and Other Stories. We cover her creative process in our conversation, the factors involved in identifying as a “Florida writer,” and we also give some shout-outs to Pinellas Park! Further Reading
  • Ansel Taylor and “Swampland” – Season 10, Episode 3
    Lan O Lakes native and recent Ringling College grad Ansel Taylor joins us to discuss his animated series concept Swampland, a fun amalgamation of Gravity Falls, Celtic mythology, and Florida wildlife, among many other elements! He’ll also revisit George McCowan’s eco-horror film Frogs with us, and talk about why he thinks queer people are drawn…
  • Scott Michael Powers and “The Murder Plague” – Season 10, Episode 2
    “Dystopia” is a frequently-invoked genre description; Scott Michael Powers, author of the novel The Murder Plague, joins us in this episode to discuss his tale of a pathogen emerging from a Florida biotech facility and driving those infected to embark on deranged murderous rampages that destroy the social fabric of the US, and why dystopias…
  • Lori Roy and “Lake County” – Season 10, Episode 1
    Gambling, murder, and desperation plague the small town of Hockta, Florida over a several-day period in the 1950s in Lori Roy’s compelling new novel Lake County. There’s also a (fictionalized) celebrity involved! Lori joins us in conversation about her book to kick off season 10 of Florida Book Club. Further Reading