What to Read When You’re Thinking about Florida
In celebration of our Floridian friends and family, we’ve compiled a list of great books that take place in, engage with, or otherwise visit the “Sunshine state.”
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Posts Tagged: The Isle of Youth
“It’s a woman’s world”
Laura van den Berg talks about being weird, her latest collection The Isle of Youth, and writing tough female characters over at Guernica. I think some people are surprised at how violent these women are, in both their action and their inaction. I’m interested in putting women where you might not expect to find them—private eyes […]
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The Isle of Youth by Laura van den Berg
Amy Letter reviews Laura van den Berg’s THE ISLE OF YOUTH today in The Rumpus Book Reviews.
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The Rumpus Interview with Laura van den Berg
Writer Laura van den Berg talks about her newest collection, The Isle of Youth, being drawn to locations “with a potential for magic and strangeness,” and how to create a continuous dream for the reader.
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