Dave Barry's sense of humor should be on display at the Smithsonian; it is truly one America's great treasures. His latest novel, Swamp Story, is set in the back woods of the Florida Everglades. That's all we are going to tell you, because the plot is so wonderfully wild, you wouldn't believe us anyway. Join us while Dave makes us laugh, and then stick around for our conversation with Mitchell Kaplan at Books & Books. As a Florida bookseller, he has important things to say about why bookstores are on the frontlines in the fight against book bans.

Books mentioned in this podcast:

• Swamp Story by Dave Barry
• Big Trouble by Dave Barry
• Best State Ever by Dave Barry
• Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States by Dave Barry
• Lessons from Lucy by Dave Barry
• Insane City by Dave Barry
• Dave Barry's Complete guide to guys by Dave Barry
• Tricky Business by Dave Barry
• Dave Barry Hits Below the Beltway by Dave Barry
• Dave Barry is Not Taking This Sitting Down! by Dave Barry
• You Can Date Boys When You're Forty: Dave Barry on Parenting and Other Topics He Knows Very Little About by Dave Barry
• The Benchley Roundup by Robert Benchley
• Love Conquers All by Robert Benchley
• My Ten Years in a Quandary, and How They Grew by Robert Benchley
• Bad Monkey by Carl Hiaasen
• Tourist Season by Carl Hiaasen
• Jeeves in the Offing by P. G. Wodehouse
• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
• The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Go as a River by Shelley Read

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