Anthologies

In Florida Stories, Tales from the Tropics by Elmore Leonard, Cabeza de Vaca, Tennessee Williams, Damon Runyon, Joan Didion, John D. McDonald, Zora Neale Hurston, Ernest Hemingway, and John Sayles, you will be drawn into an alluring collection of stories, essays and poems reflecting tropical Florida - a tropical paradise where everything happens all the time.

A story of suspense written serially by thirteen of Florida's most talented writers--including Dave Barry, Carl Hiaasen, and Elmore Leonard--features a riot in Coconut Grove, an appearance by Fidel Castro, and other strange happenings

The richest man in the world invites a trio of mediocre golfers to play at a secret course in Scotland. The result of their efforts will somehow affect the fate of the world. Can golf save the world? Fore? No, nine. That's how many literary grand masters each contribute a chapter and together bring you a blistering drive of a story that beats par with every page. To the inauguration of the state-of-the-art course in Scotland come three notoriously hard-luck golfers--not to mention peace-seeking world leaders, havoc-wreaking eco-terrorists, a naked golfer in quest of a hole in one, and, in the putt to end all putts, enough plastique to turn the world into a giant sand trap. Will things get rough in the rough? Will the green run red? Where, exactly, is the mysterious nineteenth hole? With this suspenseful and hilarious ensemble tour de force of sex, money, and mayhem on the links, the "good walk" have never been more fun.

Featuring: Jackie Robinson, Philip Roth, Roger Kahn, Michael Chabon, Dave Barry, Tom Brokaw, Penny Marshall, George Plimpton. W.P. Kinsella, Paul Simon, Roger Angell, John Grisham, Jules Tygiel, and many more.

The full list of authors includes: Joan Rivers, Daniel Pinkwater, Art Linkletter, Mark Leyner, Andrew A. Rooney, Calvin Trillin, Bailey White, Jonathan Winters, Russell Baker, Dave Barry, Art Buchwald, George Burns, Andrei Codrescu, Bill Geist, and Garrison Keillor. From the grand old man of comedy, George Burns, to the up-to-the minute observations of today's everyman, Dave Barry, these great humorists share one thing in common: their very individual, often raucously funny perception of the world around them. Laugh and enjoy!

In 1992, a cadre of the world’s best selling authors formed a garage band called the Rock Bottom Remainders. For two decades the band played proudly (and terribly) to sold-out crowds across the country and raised more than $2 million dollars for charity. Hard Listening: The Greatest Rock Band Ever (of Authors) Tells All is a collective book by Stephen King, Scott Turow, Mitch Albom, Amy Tan, Matt Groening, Dave Barry, Roy Blount Jr., James McBride, Ridley Pearson, Greg Iles, Ted Habte-Gabr, Sam Barry, and Roger McGuinn. These renowned authors share the behind-the-scenes, uncensored story of their two decades of friendship, love, writing, and the redemptive power of rock’n’roll. Includes stories, musings, group email exchanges, candid conversations, compromising photographs, and a writing contest in which several of the authors (including Stephen King) wrote a short story in King’s style. Readers get to guess which is the real thing