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The Zora Neale Hurston T-Shirt: In a Sunshine State

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Novel-T is in Miami, Florida for the weekend for the Miami Book Fair, one of our favorite events of the year.  For a couple kids from New York, it's hard to beat the chance to shoot down to the sunny climes of South Florida to talk books for a few days. It's also a good chance for us to talk about one of the newest additions to the Novel-T league, Zora Neale Hurston. Hurston was a great student of the culture and history of Florida, both of which she brought to bear in her most widely-read novel, Their Eyes Were Watching...

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Who's the Novel-T ROY?

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True, it's only May, but it's never too early to start thinking about (and collecting ballot nominations for) the Novel-T ROY. No, this isn't another Roy Campanella post. And we're not referring to Roy Hobbs from The Natural--I'm sure we'll get to that soon enough. We're talking about the Novel-T Rookie of the Year.  This year it's a race between Blake, Eggers, Emerson, and Hurston.  Vote for your favorite here.  The Novel-T Rookie of the Year will win a great big prize of some sort, which will likely be shared among the fans. Either one of those tremendous bags of...

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