![]() Thompson” ( The Wall Street Journal ).īut he is an American original. Wodehouse, Evelyn Waugh, Mark Twain, Tom Robbins, Terry Southern, Dave Barry, Richard Condon, “Elmore Leonard on nitrous oxide,” and a combination of “the scrutiny of Tom Wolfe and the twisted imagination of Hunter S. Among the writers he has been likened to are (deep breath) Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Joseph Heller, S. Oh, he has been compared to a lot of people. It’s that incendiary combination that makes Hiaasen’s books unique, why all attempts to duplicate him have failed. Rage at corrupt politicians, greedy developers, corporate polluters, environmental desecrators, crooked lawyers, avaricious doctors, cheats, scoundrels, scam artists, zealots, and lowlifes of every description. Something else much more primal drives them: rage. ![]() ![]() Sure, Carl Hiaasen’s novels are funny-sometimes laugh-out-loud absurd, sometimes so laceratingly sharp you have to check if your fingers are bleeding-but comedy is only their delivery system. ![]() Comic noir was on the upswing, and the cover letter usually included a comparison along the lines of “you know, like Carl Hiaasen.”īut they were always wrong, and they still are. As a crime and suspense editor, I noticed a trend in the submissions I began receiving in the 1990s. ![]()
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