Gregory Enns is a fifth-generation Floridian who has been a reporter and editor in Florida and Alabama for decades. He is the founder and owner of Indian River Media Group, which includes Indian River Magazine. He has a new book out with the University Press of Florida: Cow Creek Chronicles: The Rise and Fall of an Early Florida Cattle Ranch.  We interviewed Enns about that book and Florida history.

Jason Vuic’s new book is A Town Without Pity: AIDS, Race, and Resistance in Florida’s Deep South (University Press of Florida, 2025). It comes out 10/21/25, so we chatted with him about the story of Arcadia, FL, in the year 1987, and many other things Florida-related.

Aaron Gwyn is an author of several books, most recently The Cannibal Owl (Belle Point Press, 2025).

Grace Mackey interviews journalist Chris Kuo.

An interview with historian Peter Fritzsche about his new book, 1942: When World War II Engulfed the Globe (Basic Books, 2025)

An interview with Joshua Hammer, author of The Mesopotamian Riddle: An Archaeologist, A Soldier a Clergyman, and the Race to Decipher the World’s Oldest Language (Simon & Schuster, 2025)

Interview with Andy Huse, author of From Saloons to Steakhouses: A History of Tampa (University Press of Florida, 2024)

An interview with historian Jeffrey Lesser about his new book, Living and Dying in São Paulo: Immigrants, Health, and the Built Environment in Brazil (Duke University Press, 2025).

Grace Mackey interviews journalist Lee Pitts

An interview with Editorial Assistant Grace Mackey, about a new series she is launching for us, “Beneath the Byline.”

An interview with David Morton, author of Motion Picture Paradise: A History of Florida’s Film and Television Industry (University Press of Florida, 2024)

An interview with Robert Darnton, premier cultural historian and most recently author of The Writer’s Lot (Harvard University Press, 2025). The Writer’s Lot is set to be his final book. [This interview is a repost.]

We’re doing a Book Club! Spend six weeks reading Joy in the Morning by PG Wodehouse with us!

Interview with Richie Hofmann, poet and 2025 Guggenheim Fellow. He is also the recipient of a 2025 Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts. He is the author of A Hundred Lovers (2022) and Second Empire (2015), and his work has appeared in publications including The New Yorker and The Paris Review. He currently teaches in the Humanities Core at the University of Chicago.

Interview with Mike Stark, author of Starlings: The Curious Odyssey of a Most Hated Bird (University of Nebraska Press, 2025)

An interview with Stephanie Pridgeon, author of Absorption Narratives: Jewishness, Blackness, and Indigeneity in the Cultural Imaginary of the Americas (University of Toronto Press, 2025).

Interview with Christopher Meindl, PhD, author of Florida Springs: From Geography to Politics and Restoration (University Press of Florida, 2024)

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.

Richard Overy is a premier historian of the Second World War and the Third Reich. He has written over twenty-five books, most recently Why War? (2024) and Rain of Ruin: Tokyo, Hiroshima and the Surrender of Japan (2025).

Interview with Stephen West, host of the podcast Philosophize This!