Furman eloquently weaves emotion and facts into his memoir to reveal his admiration of Florida’s natural landscape. Andrew Furman’s Bitten: My Unexpected Love Affair with... Read More

The Sunshine State is best known for its beaches and theme parks, but it is also home to 1.75 million head of cattle. In Florida Cowboys, photographer Carlton Ward, Jr., gives... Read More

Kathleen Bellow scurried up the stairs with her eight-month-old son, Hayden, as Hurricane Katrina raged. Kathleen’s husband, Frank, was already in the Boston Whaler alongside... Read More

After World War I the dime novel was quickly usurped by mass fiction magazines that were typically printed on cheap, rough paper—called pulps. Pulp, over time, became... Read More

In an area known more for Christian fundamentalism than seances, Cassadaga is a rarity. A Spiritualist community embracing many New Age tenets on its journey into the next... Read More

“If you’re gonna write, for God in heaven’s sake try to get naked,” insists author Harry Crews. “Try to write the truth. Try to get underneath all the sham, all the... Read More

Today’s “snow birds”—older Northerners who frequent Florida’s sun-drenched shores and lush interiors during the brutal winter months—might never care to wonder how... Read More

I am an empty cask. Clean water floods my belly, the guts set gently back. says Penelope Kent van Princis Stout after the event that left her forever named the half-scalped... Read More

Known as the grande dame among the pantheon of Florida writers, famous author of The Everglades: River of Grass (1947) and missed sorely by all familiar with her and her work as... Read More

If you were to visit Ybor City in Tampa, Florida, during the winter holiday season, you would probably be more likely to witness the celebration of Nochebuena, Epiphany or... Read More

For those scholars, poets, students of feminist literature and other followers of Hilda Doolittle’s poetry comes the definitive publication of her autobiographical... Read More