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The Atlantic: We’re All Living in a Carl Hiaasen Novel
Hiaasen’s books are animated in equal measure by righteous anger and a penchant for the absurd. He has spent decades trying to explain to his non-Floridian readers that reality provides much of the inspiration for his fiction.
Slate: The Trump Era Has Found Its Great Satirist, and It’s … Carl Hiaasen?
No satirist arrived at our dystopian moment better prepared than Carl Hiaasen. The bad guys in Hiaasen’s books have always been dangerous and mockable. These days they’re more dangerous than ever, and an infuriated Hiaasen mocks them just as viciously as they deserve—punishes them in ways that, thus far, the real world has been unable to do.
ABC Orders ‘RJ Decker’ Pilot Based on Carl Hiaasen Novel ‘Double Whammy’
ABC has picked up the drama pilot “RJ Decker,” based on Carl Hiaasen’s 1987 novel “Double Whammy.”