An unlikely trio of friends in Kate DiCamillo’s Raymie Nightingale search for trust and healing
…Florida Central Tire contest, and when her father sees the news stories about her triumph, he will leave the dental hygienist he has run off with and come back to…
Novelist Matthew Quick talks with Chapter 16 about teachers, humor, Hollywood, and his new book, Love May Fail
…on the page. Period. I’m often surprised when people make a big deal about writing the opposite gender. I really don’t think about it all that much. Although I do…
Margaret Lazarus Dean bids a nuanced farewell to American spaceflight
…idea has been demonstrably false. But on the morning of the launch of Apollo 11, even the gruffest, most cynical of Americans, even Norman Mailer himself, could inhabit that optimism…
Carl Hiaasen talks about his wacky style of Florida thriller, teen edition
…saw the Everglades or the Ten Thousand Islands. I also want them to feel that “moral outrage”—anger, even—that I felt when I watched a place getting paved over and turned…
The characters in John Brandon’s Further Joy live in Florida’s nowhere towns
…this unfinished, unsettling quality. Brandon leads his protagonists to the brink of life-altering decisions but then stops before the critical choices are made, giving readers the space to imagine alternative…
