.” – Chicago Review of Books “Florida gives off strong vibes of magical realism, where snakes, sinkholes and panthers in hidden Florida towns replace Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Macondo with its yellow butterflies and ghosts.” – Palm Beach Post“Brooding, inventive and often moving short stories . Perhaps it is Florida’s diversity that lends itself to an author’s literary expression. Amid the horror, wonder perseveres.” – Esquire  “The gems here are like the Florida Keys: distinct islands, each beautiful in its own way. In past years, the rare short story collection . Although I have been writing professionally for 49 years, I keep going to the sessions and always learn something new. Even better, in a few special cases, readers can even visit their actual home. Each tale contains Groff’s signature mixture of poetic beauty and visceral poignancy.” – Harper’s Bazaar “As much plot and detail packed into. 67 likes. Florida Authors. . Welcome to the South Florida Writers Association (SFWA), an organization of independent and emerging writers. The stories in this collection span characters, towns, decades, even centuries, but Florida–its landscape, climate, history, and state of mind–becomes its gravitational center: an energy, a mood, as much as a place of residence. Welcome to the Florida Author Project. Prepare to sweat, see snakes and get lost in a swamp. Lauren Groff is the New York Times bestselling author of three novels, The Monsters of Templeton, Arcadia, and Fates and Furies, and the celebrated short story collection Delicate Edible Birds. . Groff’s world is a dark, strange one of tempests and terrors. . Buy. Ina Garten's Latest Cozy and Delicious Recipes, Audiobooks Read By Your Favorite Celebrities, Read the Book Behind the Showtime Limited Series, Discover the Prologue to Jodi Picoult's Poignant New Novel, Chilling Audiobooks for a Haunting Halloween. In her stories, predators bite, hurricanes destroy and nature does not forgive.” –Wall Street Journal “A dangerous energy, buoyed by rich and unsettling details, run through the Fates and Furies author’s new collection as her characters face down snakes, hurricanes and their own self-destructive behavior.” –Time Magazine “Think of the stories in Lauren Groff’s collection Florida as gems. these narratives of young families, divorced couples, and unconventional women vibrate with something new . . . . . . There is more than a little of David Lynch in Ms Groff’s Floridian landscape: exotic and bright, yet pulsing with hidden malevolence . It is an ‘Eden of beautiful things,’ glorious and decayed, attacked and altering.” – The Rumpus“[The stories] overflow with imagery so powerfully tangible that it’s hard to believe the humidity and rainstorms aren’t truly escaping from the page to touch you . | 481 Minutes . She has won the… More about Lauren Groff, “Lauren Groff is a great storyteller . Through this project, libraries are helping local authors get the recognition they deserve for writing great books. Florida is a “superlative” book (Boston Globe), “gorgeously weird and limber” (New Yorker), “frequently funny” (San Francisco Chronicle), “brooding, inventive and often moving” (NPR Fresh Air) – as Groff is recognized as ”Florida’s unofficial poet laureate, as Joan Didion was for California.” (Washington Post) “Groff’s gifts as a writer just keep soaring higher and higher.” – NPR’s Fresh AirIn her thrilling new book, Lauren Groff brings the reader into a physical world that is at once domestic and wild—a place where the hazards of the natural world lie waiting to pounce, yet the greatest threats and mysteries are still of an emotional, psychological nature. Get Shorty, 3:10 to Yuma, 52 Pick-Up, Janet Evanovich Author - Naples | ISBN 9780698405141 The Klan Unmasked, Southern Exposure, John D. MacDonald Author - Sarasota . Buy, Jun 05, 2018 Facebook is showing information to help you better understand the purpose of a Page. . Recent Florida Authors Academy attendee and Author of Defined By Others. Damn Yankees, The Pajama Game, Pal Joey, Harry Crews Author/Screenwriter - Gainesville The opinions expressed in the getaway ideas, Floridians' Favorites and readers' comments do not necessarily represent those of VISIT FLORIDA. The Everglades: River of Grass, Stetson Kennedy Author/Folklorist/Journalist – St. Augustine The rains in Florida are biblical to say the least. Meet a lonely runner, two lost sisters and a son growing up without his mother. . . . . Although she died in 1953, the Cracker setting that inspired several more novels (as well as a popular cookbook, Cross Creek Cookery) is still here and still intact. Where the Sidewalk Ends, The Giving Tree, A Light in the Attic, George Abbott Playwright – Miami Beach . . Please try again later. fall into loneliness and self-ruin at each turn.” – Town & Country Magazine “Florida mesmerizes and unnerves.” – Business Insider “A humid closeness that makes every twist of fate and new character feel intimately familiar . Among those navigating this place are a resourceful pair of abandoned sisters; a lonely boy, grown up; a restless, childless couple, a searching, homeless woman; and an unforgettable, recurring character—a steely and conflicted wife and mother. The author/teachers share cogent advice you won’t get in books. Life cannot be tamed here, Groff suggests, and the characters . Groff, through her own acrobatic style, attests to the benefits of a firm grounding in grammar and vocabulary. | ISBN 9781594634512 They are strong characters of their own that will not be ignored.” – Electric Literature “Impossible to put down.” – Vox “Groff’s mythic almost gothic stories about Florida and domesticity and entrapment took me right back to the Bronte sisters . Of all the writers who have called Key West home, none are so closely associated with the island as Ernest Hemingway. Lots of things go south fast in the stories collected in Florida — like marriages, careers and the weather — but throughout, Groff’s gifts as a writer just keep soaring higher and higher.” – NPR Fresh Air “Groff’s desire seems to be to show — in a frequently funny, sometimes painful and always deeply sensitive way — that women and children are often stronger than we tend to think, and that the Earth is more fragile than we usually allow ourselves to understand.” – San Francisco Chronicle“Easily the year’s best story collection . Her language is beautiful, surprising, and always unfolding. . A literary tour de force of precariousness set in a blistering place, a state shaped like a gun.” –Kirkus, starred review, Sign up for news about books, authors, and more from Penguin Random House, Visit other sites in the Penguin Random House Network. Artist, physician, pharmacist, wife, mother (and even veterinarian when called upon) she braved alligators, rattlesnakes, violent outlaws and chauvinism to help and heal her patients. .” – The New Yorker“The landscapes in the short stories are silty, rich, sun-bleached, cold as stone. Florida is just enough . With determination (as well as income from her citrus grove) Rawlings managed to stay solvent for a full decade until she achieved lasting success with the publication of The Yearling, her 1939 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel which turned into a 1946 feature film starring Gregory Peck. . Her writing about relationships rarely sticks within the narrow, Updike-ian confines of domestic dysfunction, though. Florida is a blistering series of short stories set in a state where calm and intensity work hand in hand.” – Conde Nast Traveler “Groff sidesteps Miami glitter for the sticky, snake-thick subtropics, the swamps and summer heat giving birth to an electrifying array of characters and worlds.” –Vanity Fair  “Readers can practically feel the mosquitoes buzzing at their necks in stories Ms. Groff started writing a decade ago after moving to Florida . The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat On a Hot Tin Roof, Elmore Leonard Author/Writer – Pompano Beach Visit the Homes of These Famous Florida Authors. Welcome to the Florida Author Project. . Among those navigating this place are a resourceful pair of abandoned sisters; a lonely boy, grown up; a restless, childless couple, a searching, homeless woman; and an unforgettable, recurring character—a steely and conflicted wife and mother. . . You’ll want to revisit them over and over, and see how you’ll react to them under different circumstances, different slants of light. Reading as required as insect repellent in a swamp.” – O Magazine “Groff has grasped the true grotesqueness of Florida, an ‘Eden of dangerous things’ spliced with stinking bodies, living and dead. . Even the park’s docents dress the part wearing period (ie: 1930s) apparel to add to a wonderful level of historical realism. [Florida] isn’t a short-story collection so much as an ecosystem.” –The Atlantic“[Groff] stakes her claim to being Florida’s unofficial poet laureate, as Joan Didion was for California.”—Washington Post“Superlative collection — seriously, there’s not a dud in the bunch … Groff is an extra terrific writer, as ever…Having followed an astonishing, astonishingly accessible novel with such an outstanding, accessible collection, Groff is surely poised to topple the tiny monkeys in charge of deciding that the perceived realm of the feminine isn’t sufficiently deep.” – Boston Globe“Taken together, the stories have the feel of autobiography, although, as in a Salvador Dali painting, their emotional disclosures are encrypted in phantasmagoria . Hoot, Native Tongue, Bad Monkey, Patrick D. Smith Author – Merritt Island Submissions for the 2020 contest are now closed. . . . . . . It was here that he wrote all or parts of A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, To Have and Have Not, and The Snows of Kilimanjaro – reasons enough why the island hosts Hemingway Days each July.

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