Elizabeth Stice

Who loves longer? A review of "Question 7" by Richard Flanagan (Knopf, 2024) — Orange Blossom Ordinary Grace Mackey reviews "Question 7" a new memoir by Richard Flanagan (Knopf, 2024). Walking from H.G. Wells to Hiroshima, Flanagan takes readers on a personal and historical journey that also engages Ch...

Grace Mackey reviews “Question 7” by Richard Flanagan (Knopf, 2024) www.orangeblossomordinary.com/reviews/who-...

A review of "Mavericks" by Nick Higham (Bloomsbury, 2025) — Orange Blossom Ordinary A Boys' Own World War One Adventure. Elizabeth Stice reviews "Mavericks: Empire, Oil, Revolution and the Forgotten Battle of World War One" by Nick Higham (Bloomsbury, 2025). If you want to learn abou...

Elizabeth Stice reviews “Mavericks: Empire, Oil, Revolution and the Forgotten Battle of World War One” by Nick Higham (Bloomsbury, 2025)

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Shelf life

Florida Gothic

Gosling Press has just produced a volume with all 96 issue of peninsula Press, the newsheet produced during the Gallipoli Campaign. This is we believe the first time all issues have been available. For more information go to goslingpress.co.uk/peninsula-pr...

A review of "Marked by Time" by Robert J. Sampson (Harvard University Press, 2026) — Orange Blossom Ordinary The serious impact of societal changes on young Americans, Elizabeth Stice reviews "Marked by Time: How Social Change Has Transformed Crime and the Life Trajectories of Young Americans" by Robert J. S...

A review of “Marked by Time: How Social Change Has Transformed Crime and the Life Trajectories of Young Americans” by Robert J. Sampson (Harvard University Press, 2026) www.orangeblossomordinary.com/reviews/gett...

L is for liberty

Absolute genius

What a great headline

Florida sublime

Florida wreckers and cowboys

A Smoke-Ringed Mirror: A review of "House of Smoke" by John T Edge (Crown Publishing, 2025) — Orange Blossom Ordinary Elizabeth Stice reviews "House of Smoke: A Southerner Goes Searching for Home" by John T Edge (Crown Publishing, 2025) Penguin Random House

A review of “House of Smoke: A Southerner Goes Searching for Home” by John T Edge (Crown, 2025) @crownpublishing.bsky.social

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Old Warnings for New Possibilities - Front Porch Republic What made the Isle of Pines an instance of regression is being sold to us as progress

The new tech utopia we are being sold is almost indistinguishable from a centuries-old dystopia. www.frontporchrepublic.com/2025/11/old-...

Highly recommend

A review of "The Forbidden Experiment" by Roger Shattuck (New York Review of Books, 2025) — Orange Blossom Ordinary Feral Children and Forbidden Knowledge. Elizabeth Stice reviews "The Forbidden Experiment: The Story of the Wild Boy of Aveyron" by Roger Shattuck, with introduction by Jed Perl (New York Review of Bo...

A review of “The Forbidden Experiment: The Story of the Wild Boy of Aveyron” by Roger Shattuck, with introduction by Jed Perl (New York Review of Books, 2025) @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social

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A review of "Dirtbag Billionaire" by David Gelles--about Yvon Chouinard & Patagonia — Orange Blossom Ordinary Elizabeth Stice reviews "Dirtbag Billionaire: How Yvon Chouinard Built Patagonia, Made a Fortune, and Gave It All Away" by David Gelles (Simon & Schuster, 2025). What makes Chouinard an iconic adventu...

A review of “Dirtbag Billionaire: How Yvon Chouinard Built Patagonia, Made a Fortune, and Gave It All Away” by David Gelles (Simon & Schuster, 2025) @simonschusterca.bsky.social

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Learn from the masters

Interview with Gregory Enns about his book "Cow Creek Chronicles" — Orange Blossom Ordinary An interview with author Gregory Enns about his new book, "Cow Creek Chronicles: The Rise and Fall of an Early Florida Cattle Ranch" (University Press of Florida, 2025). This one is all about Florida ...

Interview with Gregory Enns, author of “Cow Creek Chronicles: The Rise and Fall of an Early Florida Cattle Ranch” @floridapress.bsky.social www.orangeblossomordinary.com/interviews/i...

Sunday night ritual

Florida weekend

A review of "Kant: A Revolution in Thinking" by Marcus Willaschek — Orange Blossom Ordinary Elizabeth Stice reviews "Kant: A Revolution in Thinking" by Marcus Willaschek (Harvard University Press, 2025)

A review of “Kant: A Revolution in Thinking” by Marcus Willaschek @harvardpress.bsky.social

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Interview with Josh Vuic — Orange Blossom Ordinary Interview with Josh Vuic, author of “A Town Without Pity,” on Orange Blossom Ordinary, a review for new books

Interview with Jason Vuic about his new book “A Town Without Pity: AIDS, Race, and Resistance in Florida’s Deep South” (University Press of Florida, 2025) @floridapress.bsky.social

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Back in the salt mines

One of my more inquisitorial beliefs is that this is necromancy and it is rightly forbidden.