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  • Devil is Fine is a novel in which the main character—a biracial writer—discovers that he has inherited a plantation from the white side of his family. Author John Vercher joins us to talk about it.
  • Amy Grace Loyd's latest novel takes place in a headache clinic in an abandoned church. It explores physical and psychic pain.
  • In the literary thriller The Red Grove, a community of women live among redwoods, until a death changes everything.
  • This interview with Alka Joshi and Annette Chavez Macias was recorded live at the Southwest Florida Reading Festival in Fort Myers.
  • In Dizz Tate's new novel Brutes, a group of 13-year- old Florida girls try to find one of their classmates when she goes missing.
  • Pulitzer Prize nominee Linda Villarosa's book UNDER THE SKIN examines why Black Americans’ health outcomes are so much worse than those of white Americans.
  • Victor LaValle's new novel introduces us to a little-known chapter of American history: Single or widowed women who homesteaded in places like Montana, Wyoming, and the Dakotas.
  • We hear from poet and essayist Diana Goetsch about her new memoir This Body I Wore, in which she describes coming out as a trans woman at age 50.
  • Aubrey Gordon is a well-informed voice on anti-fat bias as well as misinformation surrounding weight loss. She talks to us about her new book You Just Need to Lose Weight and 19 Other Myths about Fat People.
  • On this episode of the Gulf Coast Life Book Club, National Book Award finalist Allegra Goodman talks about her new novel, Sam.
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