Reading LifeAugust 5, 2026
Black English opened in Tampa Heights in December 2023, founded by educator and city council member Gwendolyn Henderson with her daughter Ariel Amirah. Named after a James Baldwin essay, seven hundred square feet, three thousand books, and sections with names…
Reading LifeAugust 4, 2026
Ybor City Museum State Park sits in a 1923 bakery that once turned out five thousand loaves of Cuban bread a day. Admission is four dollars and includes a tour of La Casita, a six-hundred-square-foot worker's house. Between the 1890s…
Reading LifeAugust 4, 2026
You do not need a professional to record a parent or grandparent talking about their life. You need a phone, two hours, and the discipline to ask about rooms and objects instead of dates. Record it, do it more than…
Children's BooksAugust 4, 2026
Cultured Books is a multicultural children's bookstore on Historic 22nd Street South, founded by Lorielle J. Hollaway in 2017 and paired with a literacy foundation from 2018. It runs as a pop-up, and its Book Report Project lets children buy…
Reading LifeAugust 3, 2026
Mirror Lake Community Library is a Carnegie library that opened on December 1, 1915 with 2,600 books, one of only ten in Florida, built in Beaux-Arts style. On the National Register since 1986. Story times, therapy dog reading sessions, ESL…
Reading LifeAugust 2, 2026
Two literary magazines are published in this region and both take submissions. Saw Palm, run by graduate students at USF, publishes work connected to Florida and reads from July to October. Tampa Review, published by the University of Tampa since…
Children's BooksAugust 2, 2026
The Story Garden sells children's books and nothing else, from the ground floor of a two-storey house on 14th Street North. The owner is a former primary teacher, and the free Wednesday story time is built around letting children move…
Reading LifeAugust 1, 2026
The President Barack Obama Main Library is St. Petersburg's main branch, recently reopened after renovation, and one of only two libraries in the county open seven days a week. A real coffee shop inside, bookable study rooms and meeting rooms,…
Book LaunchAugust 1, 2026
The Book Lounge opened on Central Avenue in November 2025, run by a mother and daughter. New fiction only, weighted to romance and romantasy, with wine on tap, charcuterie, and more than a hundred board games. Every book carries a…
Reading LifeAugust 1, 2026
Tim Dorsey wrote 26 novels about a Florida serial killer with a moral code, and researched every one like history. He wrote the first while working nights at the Tampa Tribune, sent an agent the whole manuscript instead of a…
Reading LifeAugust 1, 2026
The Dunedin History Museum sits in a 1924 Atlantic Coast Line railroad depot, costs five dollars, and holds the complete Dunedin Times from 1924 to 1966, with the run to 1965 available online and searchable by word and date.
Reading LifeJuly 31, 2026
The Barbara S. Ponce Public Library in Pinellas Park holds 314 reviews and the children's wing is the reason. Fine motor toys, art stations, a play kitchen, daily crafts and story times with puppets and bubbles. It also still has…
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