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In Martin Scorsese’s 1985 art punk gem After Hours, a yuppie lost in SoHo is terrorized not so much by the late-night characters but by the city itself.

The PR guru helped raise the profile of the arts, the environment and social justice in Sarasota.

Robert Plunket’s novels made fans of Madonna, Gordon Lish, and Larry David. Yet, for years, he was a cult writer without much of a cult.

Robert Plunket’s 1983 novel had “anticipated and influenced much of what the culture would begin to find funny,” according to the novelist Danzy Senna.…

In 2023, the Gamble Plantation near Bradenton remains a romantic postcard to the Old South, where slavery is glossed over.

On Alice Mills Newman’s Francisco and Bill Gunn’s Rhinestone Sharecropping.

The 1983 novel "My Search for Warren Harding" by Sarasota resident Robert Plunket, known as Mr. Chatterbox, is being rereleased.

“For those of us who are greedy for fiction that doesn’t bore us, the risk of not reading these rare works outweighs the risk of being offended.”

Dont miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   BENNINGTON â€” A repeat drug offender has been sentenced to three years in prison for conspiring to sell cocaine in Bennington. He is serving the state sentence alongside a federal sentence. The man, Maynard Davis, 44, pleaded guilty in Bennington Superior criminal court to selling cocaine at a local apartment in December 2019. He did this in cooperation with a woman leasing the apartment, located at Applegate Drive. Davis would bring coc...

The property in Florida reportedly purchased by Flynn. Photo: Stellar Home Sales Rhode Island native and former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn has reportedly purchased a home in Boca Royale, Florida.  According to Sarasota Magazine, Flynn, a retired United States Army lieutenant general and his wife purchased the house at 71 Grande Fairway in Englewood for $545,000 — well below the list price of $879,900. “The Flynns have relatives in Boca Royale,” writes Robert Plunket for Sara...