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…
Mark Muncy and “Eerie Florida” – Season 8, Episode 3
You may have seen "Eerie Florida" author Mark Muncy discussing paranormal history on the Travel Channel or Discovery. Or you may have visited his Hellview Cemetery in St. Petersburg. Or…
Erika Lance and Valerie Willis of 4 Horsemen Publications – Season 8, Episode 2
Generally we think of the "apocalypse" as a bad thing. But Erika Lance and Valerie Willis of 4 Horsemen Publications eagerly strive to bring it about! (in the publishing world,…
Michael Wheaton of Autofocus Books – Season 8, Episode 1
Do you like autobiographies? Memoirs? Biopics? True crime? Reality TV? Or any "real-life" adjacent narratives? Then you'll love the works published by Orlando-based Autofocus Books. Founder and publisher Michael Wheaton…