A Miami Herald reporter who struck a blow against corrupt entrepreneurs in Tourist Season, Hiaasen follows through with this acid satire, a real double whammy. Private detective R. J. Decker is ...

Such was the sunny welcome put forth by Gov. Rick Scott at his second inaugural last week in Tallahassee. Quit your jobs, pack up your families and get down here as fast as you can. Twenty million ...

Asked to describe himself – A crank? A crusader? – novelist Carl Hiaasen replied, "Cranky? Maybe not a crank. No, I think when you write satire, which is what I do, satire always comes from a ...

When I moved to Florida in 1988, for a job with Florida Today in Brevard County, I didn’t just want to live in Florida. I wanted to immerse myself in it. I had a glovebox full of Tom Petty and ...

Carl Hiaasen loves talking about the monkey. You can hear it in his voice. For those familiar with the best-selling author’s literary monkeyshines, this will not come as a surprise. “Her name is ...

Buttonwood Nature Center is partnering with Waynesboro Theatre, 75 W. Main St., Waynesboro, to present the movie "Hoot" on ...

Another Carl Hiaasen novel is being developed as a TV series with Bill Lawrence onboard. The logline for the one-hour dramedy series describes it as “a screwball-romantic-comedy-triangle about ...