Friday Finds: “Flamingo Road”

Another in our growing line of vintage book covers we love. Flamingo Road, by Robert Wilder (Bantam, 1957). Illustration by Stanley Zuckerberg. As Kenneth F. Kister observes in Florida on the Boil, his 2007 guide to novels and short stories based in the Sunshine State: “Robert Wilder (1901-74), a bestselling novelist from the 1940s through the 1960s, is regrettably no longer in favor with the