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An Evening with Gabrielle Calise & Gabe Alcala for FLORIDA!
Books & Books and EXILE Books presents…
AN EVENING WITH GABRIELLE CALISE AND GABE ALCALA
discussing
Florida! A Hyper-local Guide to the Flora, Fauna, and Fantasy of the Most Far-out State in America
Friday, July 28th, 8:00 PM | Books & Books, Coral Gables
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Books & Books is thrilled to present an in-person evening with Gabrielle Calise, Gabe Alcala, & Exile Books for Florida! A Hyper-local Guide to the Flora, Fauna, and Fantasy of the Most Far-out State in America (A24).
This event is FREE and open to the public and books will be available for purchase the night of the event so make sure to stay after the talk for a book signing! Please RSVP only if you intend to join us.
About the Book:
Welcome to Florida! Your new 547-page, hyper-local guide to the most far-out state in America.
Flip through for tips on trips to the destination beaches of the Redneck Riviera, to the largest nudist colony in Pasco County (and the country), all the way over to the coleslaw wrestling arenas of the Space Coast. Through 7 chapters broken down by region, and with hundreds of the Sunshine State’s best kept, strangest secrets, Florida! has a pit-stop for everyone.
A non-exhaustive list of what you’ll find inside:
– How-to instructions on everything from chucking dead fish at the Floribama mullet toss to becoming a professional mermaid at the Weeki Wachee Springs State Park
– Excerpted essays and poems, plus contemporary and archival Floridian photography
– Illustrated fold-out maps, recipes, and tips that will keep you from looking like a tourist
Edited by Gabrielle Calise and illustrated by Gabriel Alcala, with an introduction by Tyler Gillespie.
About the Editor:
Gabrielle Calise is St. Petersburg, Florida-based culture writer and editor obsessed with offbeat stories and nostalgia. She is the editor of A24’s Florida! travel book and a contributing writer for Wildsam’s Gulf Coast field guide. She currently reports on local history, music and shenanigans for her hometown paper, the Tampa Bay Times.
Her Instagram and Twitter handles are both @gabriellecalise, and her website is gabriellecalise.com.
About the Illustrator:
Gabriel Alcala is an artist and illustrator based in Miami, Florida. His work, buoyant and subversive, updates the sly wit of counterculture comix for the Anthropocene.
His list of clients include: A24, The New York Times, Apple, Nike, The Guardian, WIRED, The Washington Post and more. When he is not working, he is hanging out with his dog Seymour.
Instagram: @gabalca Website: www.gabrielalcala.com