Seven Florida Podcasts Worth Following
Two sisters on six generations of family history, a weekly road trip, a thousand miles of the Florida Trail on foot, and a show that explains whatever is living in your backyard. Seven we actually listen to.
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Six Florida Websites Worth Bookmarking
Two independent travel sites, two state resources, a trail database and a free archive of Florida photographs and documents. All six are live, all six are useful, and none of them are trying to sell you a timeshare.
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Elmore Leonard’s South Florida: Three Novels and Two Films
Leonard wrote westerns for two decades before he found Florida. LaBrava won the Edgar. Rum Punch became Jackie Brown and Out of Sight became a Soderbergh film. All three are worth the afternoon.
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Carl Hiaasen’s Florida: A Reading Order for Fifteen Novels
Hiaasen wrote a Miami Herald column from 1985 until 2021, and the developers and polluters in his novels showed up in the newspaper first. Where to start, and what each of the fifteen is about.
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Tarzan at Silver Springs: When Hollywood Found Its Jungle in Florida
Long before theme parks, one of Florida’s biggest stars was a crystal-clear spring that doubled as an African jungle. Starting in the late 1930s,…
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Continental Drift: Russell Banks’s Powerful Novel of the Florida Dream
Russell Banks’s acclaimed novel “Continental Drift” is a sweeping story of people drawn toward Florida in search of a better life, and one of…
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The Mango Opera: Tom Corcoran’s Breezy Key West Mystery
Tom Corcoran’s “The Mango Opera” introduced Alex Rutledge, a Key West photographer who keeps getting pulled into solving crimes, and launched a beloved series…
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A Flash of Green: John D. MacDonald’s Early Cry for Florida’s Coast
Long before environmentalism was mainstream, John D. MacDonald, the master Florida novelist, wrote “A Flash of Green,” a gripping story about a fight to…
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To Have and Have Not: Hemingway’s Hard-Boiled Key West Novel
Ernest Hemingway wrote much of “To Have and Have Not” while living in his beloved Key West home in the 1930s, and the island…
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Tony Rome: Frank Sinatra’s Cool Miami Detective Caper
In the 1967 film “Tony Rome,” Frank Sinatra plays a charming, wisecracking Miami private detective who lives on a boat and chases trouble across…
