Episode Notes

Tune in for the season seven premiere to hear Chris get schooled on the romance genre by Alicia Thompson, Florida native and author of the novel Love in the Time of Serial Killers, a surprising, true crime-steeped rom-com set in the doldrums of a Florida summer.

Laura van den Berg joins us to talk about her collection "I Hold a Wolf By the Ears," midnight logic, and why Florida is a great setting for eerie and unsettling stories.

Editor Gabrielle Calise returns to talk about the big pink book with the puffy cover that is better than any Florida travel guide or chamber of commerce video.

University of South Florida MFA graduate Courtney Clute's The Fermi Paradox features flash fiction — stories that are incredibly brief but substantive. We discuss the book and the genre more broadly with the author herself on this episode.

Learn the difference between a battle and a skirmish, along with the events surrounding Florida's secession and its role in the Civil War as we discuss Robert Redd's new book…

We're joined today by poet and fiction author Enid Shomer to discuss her 2020 poetry collection Shoreless, which examines themes of nature and human frailty and has killer cover art!

Owen Robertson of Tampa's LAB Theater tells us about LAB's playwright-centric focus and commitment to producing original works

Florida's "town without pity" and a variety of obscure Florida history, memoir, and true-crime books that border on pulp are the topics we discuss with Jason Vuic, author of The Swamp Peddlers.

"Come for the poetry, stay for the paranormal!" That is how Islandia Journal's founder and publisher, native Miamian Jason Katz, wants you to think of his passion project.

Join me as I ruminate on the peculiar classic film "Empire of the Ants," which has a lot of insights to reveal about the Florida sugar industry both then and now.