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 Geoffrey Ward, historian and writer of scripts for Ken Burns. Author of The Vietnam War: An Intimate History (Knopf, 2017), The Roosevelts: An Intimate History (Knopf, 2014), and others. Script writer of The Civil War, Baseball, The West, Jazz, and more.

Robert Darnton is a premier cultural historian and perhaps the foremost expert on the 18th century republic of letters. He is the author of numerous books, most recently The Revolutionary Temper: Paris, 1748-1789 (Harvard University Press, 2024).

An interview with Gosling Press, a small press dedicated to World War I books, with a special interest in campaigns away from the Western Front.

Lanta Davis is a professor of humanities and literature in the John Wesley Honors College at Indiana Wesleyan University in Marion, Indiana. Her new book is Becoming by Beholding: The Power of Imagination in Spiritual Formation (Baker, 2024).

Interview with Cathy Salustri, author of Florida Spectacular: Extraordinary Places and Extraordinary Lives (University of Florida Press, 2024)

Interview with Wright Thompson about his new book, The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder In Mississippi . This interview also touches on American history and Southern identity.

Author interview with Florida fiction author, Taylor Thomas Smythe

Interview with Keith Huneycutt, author of The Storm: An Antebellum Tale of Key West, which brings us a previously unpublished novella by an early Florida female author (University Press of Florida, 2024)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 Andy Huse, author of From Saloons to Steakhouses: A History of Tampa (University Press of Florida, 2024)

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.