Floridiana
Interview with Dan Reiter, author of “On a Rising Swell”
Dan Reiter is a “surfer, author, and general contractor.” His writing has appeared in Surfer’s Journal, The Kenyon Review, and McSweeney’s, among other places. His new book, On a Rising Swell: Surf Stories from Florida’s Space Coast was published by University Press of Florida in April 2025.
Florida surfing, Florida stories
Elizabeth Stice reviews On a Rising Swell: Surf Stories From Florida’s Space Coast by Dan Reiter (University Press of Florida, 2025)
Interview with Andrew Furman, author of “Of Slash Pines and Manatees”
Interview with Andrew Furman, author of Of Slash Pines and Manatees (University Press of Florida, 2025)
Interview with Andy Huse, author of “From Saloons to Steakhouses: A History of Tampa”
Interview with Andy Huse, author of From Saloons to Steakhouses: A History of Tampa (University Press of Florida, 2024)
Interview with Taylor Smythe
Author interview with Florida fiction author, Taylor Thomas Smythe
Florida on Film: The Florida Project
Paige Stanish reflects on The Florida Project (2017) and what it says about the Sunshine State.
Interview with Keith Huneycutt, author of “The Storm”
Interview with Keith Huneycutt, author of The Storm: An Antebellum Tale of Key West, which brings us a previously unpublished novella by an early Florida female author (University Press of Florida, 2024)
Interview with Diego Alejandro Waisman, author of “Sunset Colonies: A Visual Elegy to South Florida’s Mobile Home Communities”
In order to keep "one foot in Florida, one foot in the life of the mind," we will be regularly featuring interviews with Florida authors.
Mofro, Olustee, and the Blues of Lost Places
Tom Chesnes reviews the new album Olustee by JJ Grey and Mofro (2024)
Spectacular Florida: Interview with Cathy Salustri
Interview with Cathy Salustri, author of Florida Spectacular: Extraordinary Places and Extraordinary Lives (University of Florida Press, 2024)
In Between Florida and Family
Sam Wilber reviews The Mango Tree: A Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and Felony by Annabelle Tometich (Little, Brown & Company 2024)