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Ex-Talking Head Chris Frantz returns to the rappinghood with his new memoir

What are words worth?

by Bill Forman

Aug 19, 2020

Context is everything. In 1979, when "Air" appeared on Talking Heads' Fear of Music album, its lyrics felt more paranoid than prophetic...

Ex-Talking Head Chris Frantz returns to the rappinghood with his new memoir

In the final week of Rollins College's Winter With the Writers, the National Book Foundation seeks to diversify the literary conversation

By Rebecca Renner
Feb 26, 2020
Craig Pittman’s latest Sunshine State saga tracks the resurrection of the Florida panther

By Cathy Salustri
Jan 29, 2020
Fill out your gift list with local Orlando fiction and history

By Jessica Bryce Young
Dec 4, 2019
'Fox & Friends' co-host Brian Kilmeade has a book signing in the Villages

By Solomon Gustavo
Nov 22, 2019
Orlando Story Club will let randomly selected storytellers get audiences 'Spooked!'

By Wavanie Henry
Oct 2, 2019
Colson Whitehead’s latest novel fictionalizes Florida’s infamous Dozier School

House of horrors

By Jessica Bryce Young
Jul 24, 2019
Florida-based books by Florida-born women capture the state in all its ugly beauty

Diving into the wreck

By Jessica Bryce Young
May 1, 2019
Dystopian novel 'Your Robot Dog Will Die' challenges our beliefs about cruelty and kindness

By Cathy Salustri
Jan 9, 2019
All-star Orlando librarian Kristen Arnett talks to Susan Orlean about paper, fire and the allure of circulating materials

'Libraries are essential'

By Kristen Arnett
Oct 24, 2018
Rollins' Winter With the Writers is a monthlong reading series worth binge-attending

Winter's tale

By Ryan Rivas
Jan 31, 2018
Three books that investigate the terrors and pleasures of the corporeal

Body text(s)

By Ryan Rivas
Jan 3, 2018
A handful of music books that would look good under the tree, under your cup of coffee, under the blankets

This is my truth, you tell me yours

By Matthew Moyer
Dec 20, 2017
In Burrow Press' latest, Floridians talk smack about Florida, but woe betide the outlander who does the same

Florida man, c’est nous

By Jessica Bryce Young
Nov 29, 2017
'Victuals: An Appalachian Journey,' 'The Potlikker Papers,' 'Baking Powder Wars,' 'The Cooking Gene' and 'What She Ate,' reviewed

Feed your head

By Jessica Bryce Young
Jul 19, 2017
'Hit Makers,' 'How Emotions Are Made' and 'The Inkblots: Hermann Rorschach, His Iconic Test, and the Power of Seeing,' reviewed

Mind games

By Ashley Belanger
Jul 19, 2017
Message to Our Folks

'Spoke,' 'Prince: The Coloring Book,' 'Message to Our Folks,' 'Riding With the Ghost' and 'Evolution of a Cro-Magnon,' reviewed

By Matthew Moyer
Jul 19, 2017
'Art, Sex, Music,' 'After Kathy Acker' and 'Down Below,' reviewed

Cosey Fanni Tutti | Chris Kraus | Leonora Carrington

By Moriah Russo
Jul 19, 2017
'Sudden Death,' 'White Tears' and 'So Much Blue,' reviewed

Alvaro Enrigue | Hari Kunzru | Percival Everett

By Ryan Rivas
Jul 19, 2017
'Hunger,' 'Heartthrobs' and 'Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud,' reviewed

Roxane Gay | Carol Dyhouse | Anne Helen Petersen

By Lorraine Berry
Jul 19, 2017
Three new books on very different musicians stretch the limits of memoir and memory

The men who sold the world

By Matthew Moyer
May 10, 2017
New 'Architectural Guidebook to Central Florida' shows off the region's most stunning structures

By Jessica Bryce Young
May 4, 2017
Polasek’s new Artful Book Club reads text on Haiti’s ‘absurd streams of misfortune’

Thin line between love and Haiti

By Lorraine Berry
Apr 5, 2017
In her new book, Stephanie Lister revisits her time living in Mickey’s backyard

Floating in the Florida soup

By Jessica Bryce Young
Feb 17, 2016
Claire Vaye Watkins’ Gold Fame Citrus looks unflinchingly at the causes and the costs of environmental cataclysm

Apocalypse soon

By Jessica Bryce Young
Dec 30, 2015
Our top 10 books of 2015

Banner year for readers and writers; bad year for bedside tables

By Ryan Rivas
Dec 16, 2015

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