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On this week’s show, I talk to the fiction writer and historian of Florida attractions Lu Vickers,

Plus Joe Marchia writes about Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood.

 TEXTS DISCUSSED 

Breathing Underwater">

Weeki Wachee Mermaids: Thirty Years of Underwater Photography">

Cypress Gardens, America's Tropical Wonderland: How Dick Pope Invented Florida">

Weeki Wachee, City of Mermaids: A History of One of Florida's Oldest Roadside Attractions (Florida History and Culture)">

Norwegian Wood (Vintage International)">

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