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Jan 5, 2025 | news.wjct.org

This week on The Florida Roundup, we bring you some of the biggest stories from around the state with reporters from Florida Public Radio member stations (00:22). Plus, we learn about how Spanish settlers in Florida influenced America’s barbecue craze (20:15). And later, we bring you a collection of Florida-only food stories (37:32).

Jun 17, 2024 | news.wjct.org | Cal Newport

We see you, hard-core NPR readers - just because it's summer doesn't mean it's all fiction, all the time. So we asked around the newsroom to find our staffers' favorite nonfiction from the first half of 2024. We've got biography and memoir, health and science, history, sports and more.

Apr 29, 2024 | news.wjct.org | Chris Anderson

The vast majority of authors don't use artificial intelligence as part of their creative process - or at least won't admit to it. Yet according to a recent poll from the writers' advocacy nonprofit The Authors Guild, 13% said they do use AI, for activities like brainstorming character ideas and creating outlines. The technology is a vexed topic in the literary world. Many authors are concerned about the use of their copyrighted material in generative AI models.

Dec 5, 2023 | news.wjct.org | Abraham Verghese |Elizabeth Acevedo |Lauren Groff

I've worked on Books We Love - NPR's annual, year-end books guide - for a decade, and one of my favorite parts of the process each year is getting a sneak peek at what my co-workers read in their free time. Who's into poetry? Who reads tons of YA? Who's all nonfiction all the time? It's fun to spot trends and see which books get nominated over and over again. Here are a dozen titles pared down from a list that our staffers and critics were particularly eager to tell you about in 2023.

Nov 10, 2023 | news.wjct.org | Nickel Creek

R&B singer-songwriter SZA leads the pack of nominees for the 66th annual Grammy Awards, with nine nods, the Recording Academy announced Friday. Her sophomore album, SOS, is a contender for album of the year, with her hit "Kill Bill" up for record and song of the year.