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Sian Hunter
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Senior editor @floridapress.bsky.social. Mountains, please.
To cap off University Press week, we're celebrating Florida's indie bookstores! These spaces of connection and discovery reaffirm community every day.
November 14, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Congratulations to all of our award-winning authors! We're highlighting our titles that won awards in the past year. Read our review to find award-winning books on #Florida, #HistoricalArchaeology, #DanceStudies, #LatinAmericanStudies, and more.
2024-25 Year in Review: Awards Won
The University Press of Florida and UF Press proudly present our award-winning books and authors from the last year. Florida Springs: From Geography to Politics and RestorationChristopher F. Meindl…
floridapress.blog
July 21, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Analyzing works of film and literature by writers and artists from Beyoncé to Ntozake Shange, OSHUN, LEMONADE, AND INTERTEXTUALITY by Sheneese Thompson explores how Afro-Atlantic religion intersects with themes of resilience in Black femininity and womanhood.
Oshun, Lemonade, and Intertextuality
“The ability to map Oshun across the Afro-Atlantic world to tease out her vital iconic significance, in literary, cultural, religious, and political terrains, makes for a priceless book.”—Niyi Afol…
floridapress.blog
July 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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The Lynx, the bookstore founded by @legroff.bsky.social, is installing a #Florida book vending machine at the local airport to feature books by Zora Neale Hurston, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings & other FL writers. www.mainstreetdailynews.com/local-living...
The Lynx Bookstore to unveil book vending machine at Gainesville Regional Airport
Event to take place on June 26.
www.mainstreetdailynews.com
June 24, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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The magazine Nature announced the results of its annual Scientist at Work photography contest. The six winning entries are a set of dramatic, intimate portraits of research from all over the globe.
In photographs, scientists revel in the world they seek to discover
The magazine Nature announced the results of its annual Scientist at Work photography contest. The six winning entries are a set of dramatic, intimate portraits of research from all over the globe.
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June 11, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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1 Astronaut, Many Cameras and 220 Days of Amazing Images From Space
www.nytimes.com
May 13, 2025 at 2:49 PM
RIP Roy Ayers. Your music continues to spread good vibes in this world.
www.kqed.org/arts/1397271...
Roy Ayers, Jazz Great Who Developed a Sun-Kissed Funk Sound, Dies at 84 | KQED
The vibraphonist, composer and jazz-funk pioneer helped inspire the neo-soul movement, and his best-known song was sampled over 100 times.
www.kqed.org
March 6, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Today is the publication date for BLACK PRISON INTELLECTUALS by Andrea Stone. This book explores how early Black prison writing shaped Black intellectual movements, shedding light on the roots of issues like #structuralracism and #massincarceration.
Black Prison Intellectuals
“Stone transforms our understanding of the prisoner as intellectuals and thought leaders.”—Jodi Schorb, author of Reading Prisoners: Literature, Literacy, and the Transformation of American Punishm…
floridapress.blog
January 13, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Visit us at Miami Book Fair! Our booth will be open November 22-24 with new and bestselling books for sale at great discount prices.

See below for author sessions at Miami Dade College’s Wolfson Campus, along with two exciting author events happening at Books & Books in Coral Gables the week after.
November 18, 2024 at 4:09 PM