Keeping tabs on authors in LINKcat: Tim Dorsey

 

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New York Times, 12/2/2023

Mr. Dorsey did not develop as much national name recognition as Mr. Hiaasen or Dave Barry, both of them also journalists turned Florida novelists, but his fans were legion and avid. They came to his readings with Serge-themed T-shirts and tattoos, and over the years organized Serge-themed festivals around the state, often in the sort of rural, swampy settings that filled Mr. Dorsey’s books. 

When asked in the Powell’s interview for his idea of the good life, Mr. Dorsey said he was living it. 

“I couldn’t write a better job description: Travel Florida wherever my curiosity leads me, talk to locals, venture down the most remote back roads,” he said. “Then come home and weave all the cool things I found — historic, obscure, funky — into seemingly outrageous crime plots that are but thinly veiled reflections of what fills our newspapers down here every day.”

 

The 50 member libraries of LINKcat

2023

Martin Amis.  (5/31)

Richard Anobile.  (3/18)

Russell Banks.  (1/11)

A. S. Byatt.  (11/18)

Ted Bell.  (2/8)

Carol Higgins Clark.  (7/13)

Natalie Zemon Davis.  (10/27)

Herbert Gold.  (11/24)

David Harris.  (2/8)

Paul Johnson.  (1/15)

Milan Kundera.  (7/17)

Harold S. Kushner.  (4/30)

Cormac McCarthy.  (6/19)

Kevin Phillips.  (10/19)

Betty Rollin.  (11/26)

Norman Rush.  (4/7)

Mimi Sheraton.  (4/9)

Charles Simic.  (1/16)

Donald Spoto.  (2/18)

D. M. Thomas.  (3/31)

John Underwood.  (5/8)

Fay Weldon.  (2/2)

Bill Zehme.  (4/1)

2022

Roger Angell.  (5/24)

Melissa Bank.  (8/7)

Raymond Briggs.  (8/20)

Thomas Cahill. (11/16)

Philip K. Dick.  (11/20)

Bruce Duffy,  (3/13)

Todd Gitlin.  (2/8)

Rebecca Godfrey.  (11/11)

Ron Goulart.  (2/7)

Doris Grumbach.  (11/10)

Robert Hicks.  (3/8)

Thomas Hoving.  (12/19)

Maureen Howard.  (3/19)

Dominique Lapierre.  (12/11)

Hilary Mantel.  (9/26)

Nancy Mitford.  (4/4)

P. J. O'Rourke.  (2/24)

John J. Osborn Jr.  (11/4)

Julie Powell.  (11/5)

Thomas Pynchon.  (12/17)

Dennis Smith.  (1/27)

Susie Steiner.  (7/27)

Larry Woiwode.  (5/19)

2021

Joan Walsh Anglund.  (4/3)

F. Lee Bailey.  (6/11)

Katherine Barber.  (5/26)

Mary Catherine Bateson.  (1/26)

Rosalind Cartwright.  (3/21)

Kim Chernin.  (1/10)

Beverly Cleary.  (4/8)

Angelo Codevilla.  (10/10)

Christina Crosby.  (1/31)

Geoff Crowther.  (5/17)

Eric Jerome Dickey.  (1/9)

Morrie Dickstein.  (3/31)

Scott Donaldson.  (1/11)

Stephen Dunn.  (6/29)

Lawrence Ferlinghetti.  (2/24)

James R. Flynn.  (1/30)

Larry Flynt.  (2/12)

Lucinda Franks.  (5/11)

Joseph Galloway.  (8/25)

Norman Golb.  (2/22)

Lawrence Graham.  (3/9)

Charles Grodin.  (5/20)

Maria Guarnascheilli, book editor.  (2/18)

James Gunn.  (2/21)

Tony Hendra.  (3/7)

Robert L. Herbert (2/12)

Norman Juster.  (3/16)

Donald Kagan.  (8/20)

Hans Kung.  (4/9)

Lyn Macdonald.  (5/15)

Janet Malcolm.  (6/18)

Peter Manso,  (4/10)

Jason Matthews.  (5/4)

Margaret Maron.  (3/13)

Larry McMurtry.  (4/2)

Ved Mehta.  (1/12)

Robert Middlekauff.  (9/3)

Marie Mongan.  (3/22)

John Naisbitt.  (4/21)

Sharon Kay Penman.  (2/8)

Steven B. Oates.  (9/1)

Robert Quackenbush.  (7/7)

Deborah Rhode.  (1/28)

James Ridgeway.  (2/16)

Naomi Rosenblum  (3/6)

Donald Rumsfeld.  (7/6)

Charles Saunders.  (2/4)

David Swensen.  (5/13)

Bryan Sykes.  (1/14)

Athan Theoharis.  (6/14/)

Ed Ward.  (5/16)

Michael Thomas.  (8/19)

Steven Weinberg.  (8/5)

Adam Zagajewski.  (3/27)

2020

Patricia Bosworth.  (4/6)

Ben Bova.  (12/17)

Mary Higgins Clark.  (2/4)

Clive Cussler.  (2/29)

Betty Dodson  (11/11)

David Graeber.  (9/6)

Shirley Ann Grau.  (8/11)

Pete Hamill.  (8/6)

Shere Hite. (9/13)

A, E, Hotchner.  (2/18)

Roger Kahn.  (2/15)

Randall Kenan.  (9/29)

John Le Carre. (12/23/2020)

Johanna Lindsey.  (1/15)

Barry Lopez.  (12/29)

Alison Lurie.  (12/7)

Sylvia Jukes Morris.  (1/20)

Charlers Portis.  (2/19)

Julia Reed.  (9/8)

John Rothchild.  (1/22)

Gail Sheehy.  (9/3)

George Steiner.  (2/6)

Jill Paton Walsh.  (11/29)

Charles Webb.  (6/30)

Elizabeth Wurtzel.  (1/11)

2019

Warren Adler.  (4/23)

Kate Braverman.  (10/28)

Stephen Dixon.  (11/12)

Ernest J. Gaines.  (11/8)

Dan Jenkins.  (3/10)

Judith Krantz.  (6/27)

Paule Marshall.  (8/27)

Robert K. Massie.  (12/4)

Martin Mayer.  (8/3)

Wright Morris.  (7/25)

Toni Morrison.  (8/12)

Anthony Price.  (6/17)

James I. Robertson.  (11/20)

Anne Rivers Siddons.  (9/19)

John Simon.  (12/1)

Sol Stein.  (9/30)

Brad Watson.  (8/2)

Lonnie Wheeler.  (7/15)

Herman Wouk.  (5/20)

Nearly forgotten "sociological megahits" of 1970.  (6/18)

2018

Neal Thompson.  (6/17)

Barbara Kafka.  (6/8)

Weeding or historical sanitization at LINKcat libraries?  (6/2)

2017

Aline Countess of Romanones.  (12/17)

Kit Reed.  (10/1)

Carol J. Adams shares feminist classics from her personal library.  (9/8)

2016

E. M. Nathanson.  (4/10)

2015

Gunter Grass (1927-2015).  (4/15)

2014

Thomas Berger  (1924-2014).  (7/23)

Peter Matthiessen (1927-2014)  (4/8)

2013

Barbara Branden.  (12/26)