Books
Not Just for Kids: ‘Chomp’ by Carl Hiaasen
March 18, 2012
Entertainment & Arts
In his latest middle-school novel, the author pokes fun at reality TV’s outdoor adventure shows with a Florida-based tale that’s as funny as it is informative.
March 23, 2014
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Aug. 18, 2010
Archives
Book review: Carl Hiaasen’s ‘Star Island’
Aug. 2, 2010
It’s retribution time, Hiaasen-style, in this story of kidnappers and a pop singer’s “stunt double.”
March 10, 2014
The water out here is as clear as a glass of vodka, and about three fingers deep, and satirist-crime novelist Carl Hiaasen is behind the wheel of Final Edition, his 17-foot Hewes Redfisher skiff, which is blasting across the ominously shallow, coral-studded flats at approximately 7,000 m.p.h., quickly approaching liftoff velocity.
April 3, 1992
Skinny Dip A Novel Carl Hiaasen Alfred A. Knopf: 356 pp., $24.95
July 25, 2004
Environment: Carl Hiaasen’s newspaper columns and novels have a theme: Florida’s in trouble, and somebody has to speak up. In some quarters, that doesn’t make him popular.
Oct. 7, 2000
World & Nation
We’re sitting in this roadside fish-and-conch shack off Route 1 in North Key Largo, and the conversation has shifted from literature and the craft of writing to a subject closer to home: one of South Florida’s meaner cocaine dealers who, it seems, was born with no arms.
Nov. 17, 1991
March 16, 2012