Ryan Rivas and “Lizard People” – Season 9, Episode 4
Ryan Rivas is a regular at the Clubhouse; he joins us today to talk about his novella Lizard People, conspiratorial thinking, ideas of white identity, and the marketability of the…
Andrea Rinard and “Murmurations” – Season 9, Episode 3
Flash fiction, micro fiction, prose poems, and so-called "short-short stories" may all be technically different forms, but if you like tiny stories of any stripe, you will love Andrea Rinard's…
Mistie Watkins and “Hiraeth” – Season 9, Episode 2
Mistie Watkins joins us to talk about her alluring and compelling work Hiraeth, a collection of poetic, often-surreal vignettes detailing her childhood and family life in Central Florida. There are…
A Conversation With Jarret Keene – Season 9, Episode 1
We kick off Season 9 of Florida Book Club with a wide-ranging conversation covering education in Florida, the Tampa death metal scene of the late 80s-early 90s, and what it…
A Look Back: Three Years of Florida Book Club
After 60+ episodes (and over a dozen blog posts), my producer and I take a look back at three years of Florida Book Club and maybe offer some vague hints as to what's ahead for the podcast!
Shane Hinton and “Pinkies” – Season 8, Episode 8
Shane Hinton's 2015 collection Pinkies is full of bizarre gems: surreal settings, ominous images, and an absolutely terrific title story where giant predatory pythons roam a suburban community attacking and…
Heather Sellers and “Field Notes from the Flood Zone” – Season 8, Episode 7
On a week where a major hurricane is heading toward Florida, author Heather Sellers joins us to discuss her 2022 Florida Book Prize winning poetry collection Field Notes from the…
Alicia Thompson and “With Love, From Cold World” – Season 8, Episode 6
We welcome back Alicia Thompson to discuss her new novel With Love, From Cold World, the romance genre more generally (again), how her life has changed since the publication of…
Erin Kimmerle and “We Carry Their Bones” – Season 8, Episode 5
The Dozier School for Boys in Marianna, FL, went by several names in its 100-year history. Under any name, it represents a blighted, ugly chapter in Florida history. University of…
P. Scott Cunningham and “Ya Te Veo” – Season 8, Episode 4
Plants that eat people, shout-outs to Zydrunas Ilgauskas, metaphors involving the NES version of Contra, meditations on classical composers, and much more feature in P. Scott Cunningham's 2018 poetry collection…