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From Stephen Elliott
In Florida there is an Indian River that flows through a swamp in the northern half of the state. It behaves nothing like a river at all—instead it commingles with the land to make a land-water hybrid, which is what much of Florida feels like anyway.
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Lynne Barrett’s story collection, Magpies, soaks in the muggy atmosphere of South Florida, with her well-told stories of swamplands and housing developments.
For Mary Miller’s characters, the world is anything but big. These are women trapped in little towns and little lives, but the emotional resonance is limitless.
Roger Stone, the architect of the infamous Brooks Brothers Riot (see Dade County, 2000 election), reviews the new James Bond film, Quantam of Solace. The movie’s fine, he says, but the outfits are all wrong. (see also the profile of Roger Stone in The New Yorker)
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