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Carl Hiaasen’s Sunshine Noir

For someone who says he’s angry, Carl Hiaasen seems awfully nice. “A lot of the funniest writers I know, funniest people I know, have a deep vein of anger. It’s a sense of ironic outrage at things. They’re not happy-go-lucky people. They’re writing for a reason. If you go back, Mark Twain was not a […]

Author Carl Hiaasen on ‘Chomp’

Carl Hiaasen on What Florida Means for the Rest of the Race

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Saving Roald Dahl’s Cabin

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Florida’s Senate and Governor’s races through the eyes of Carl Hiaasen

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Inside the strange, magical world of Roald Dahl

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Where did Roald Dahl’s imagination come from? And how much of the creepiness from his stories stems from real-life events? Donald Sturrock ise author of “Storyteller: The Authorized Biography of Roald Dahl” which is in bookstores this month.

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Carl Hiaasen on the deteriorating state of Florida politics

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It may be a swing state, but Miami Herald columnist and author Carl Hiaasen says that if the nation’s politics follow the same path as his home state of Florida, we all might as well move to the Bahamas.

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Dave Barry welcomes The Takeaway to Miami

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Today we welcome Miami listeners to The Takeaway this week at WLRN, Miami’s public radio station. To kick off our first week of broadcasting there, we’re asking Miami-based, Pulitzer Prize-winning humor columnist Dave Barry to welcome us.