Two of Tampa’s best independent stores — long-running music outlet Vinyl Fever and terrific readers mecca Inkwood Books — are teaming for a nifty co-promotion, stemming in part from their membership in the Tampa Independent Business Alliance.
Here’s the deal, good throughout March: A receipt from Vinyl Fever will qualify the buyer for a 20% discount off of any book at Inkwood. The reverse works, too.
For more details, go to the Inkwood site.
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Inkwood has a full slate of events for March, including the following (all are at the store, 216 South Armenia Avenue in Tampa, unless otherwise indicated):
March 7 @ 2 p.m. – John Cinchett, a Tampa native, discusses and signs copies of Vintage Tampa Signs and Scenes.
March 11 @ 7 p.m., Tampa Tribune auditorium – Florida crime/mystery writer Randy Wayne White tells stories and signs copies of his new Dead Silence.
March 20 @ 7 p.m. – Readings by University of Tampa professor Donald Morrill, author of Impetuous Sleeper, a collection of prose pieces; and Ellen Dore Watson, whose fourth poetry collection is titled This Sharpening.
March 22 @ 2 p.m. – Vincent Scarpaci, a Brooklyn native, discusses and signs copies of The Journey of the Italians in America.
March 26 @ 7 p.m. – Janet Conner discusses and signs Writing Down Your Soul: How to Activate and Listen to the Extraordinary Voice Within.
March 27@7 p.m. – Miami casting director Lori Wyman discusses and signs The Organic Actor: Insider’s Secrets to Auditioning for Film and Television.
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Nuclear Jellyfish, the latest over-the-top crime novel from Tampa writer Tim Dorsey, was called “pure gonzo humor” by Marilyn Stasio, in her crime column published Sunday in The New York Times Book Review.
Read the review at the Times site, or see the full text below:
“People who love the Marx Brothers don’t usually go for the Three Stooges. Since the same assumption applies to comic mysteries, here’s one from each end of the taste spectrum. Tim Dorsey’s NUCLEAR JELLYFISH (MORROW/HARPERCOLLINS, $24.99), the latest entry in the saga of Serge Storms, is pure gonzo humor. Serge being Serge (meaning certifiable), sex, violence and hilarity ensue as he pinballs along the Florida highways, pursuing his dream of authenticating every bit of the state’s anecdotal history. Dorsey devises plenty of Stoogelike antics for Serge, but he also offers clever parodies of the tourists, truckers and conventioneers who stumble into his manic hero’s path.”
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Tim’s book tour continues. Florida dates are below:
Wed., Mar. 18 – Manatee County Library luncheon
Bradenton City Center, 1001 Barcarota Blvd. W
Contact library system for details
Sat., Mar. 21 – Southwest Florida Festival of Reading
Harborside Events Center – 1:30 p.m.
1375 Monroe Street, Fort Myers
Tues., Mar. 24 – Paperback Express – 4-5 p.m.
3251 17th Street, Sarasota
Tues., Mar. 24 – Manatee Community College, Venice campus – 7 p.m.
8000 Tamiami Trl S, Venice
Wed., Mar. 25 – Venice Library luncheon – 11:30 a.m.
Contact library for details
Thurs., Mar. 26 – Lake County Festival of Reading
Contact library system for details
Sun., Mar. 29 – Dunedin Public Library – 1 p.m.
223 Douglas Ave., Dunedin
Fri-Sat. – June 5-6 – Mystery Florida conference
Lido Beach Resort, 700 Ben Franklin Drive, Sarasota
For details: mysteryflorida.com