Tag: Fiction

In conversation with Carl Hiaasen (virtual event)

Join us for a virtual Live Talks Los Angeles event:
Monday, May 26, 2025, 6pm PT/9pm ET

**An Evening with Carl Hiaasen
discussing his novel, *Fever Beach***

VIRTUAL EVENT TICKETS (**US Orders Only**)
Monday, May 26, 2025, 6pm PT/9pm ET
$46 Virtual Admission + signed book (includes **shipping to US addresses only**). Includes access to watch the event on May 26 at 6pm PT/9pm ET and on video-on-demand for five days..

**Another instant classic from Carl Hiaasen—laugh-out-loud funny, tackling the current chaotic and polarized American culture (following in the path of Squeeze Me), with two wonderful Hiaasen heroes**

**Carl Hiaasen** was born and raised in Florida. He is the author of fourteen previous novels, including the bestsellers Squeeze Me, Razor Girl, Star Island, Nature Girl, Skinny Dip, Sick Puppy, and Lucky You, and seven bestselling children’s books, Hoot, Flush, Scat, Chomp, Skink, and Squirm. His novel, Bad Monkey, was recently adapted into a hit series on Apple TV+ starring Vince Vaughn.

Carl Hiaasen has made quite a career as a best-selling novelist by lampooning his native Sunshine State. His latest, ***Fever Beach***, begins with an errand that leads—in pure Hiaasen-style—into the depths of Florida at its most Floridian: a sun-soaked bastion of right-wing extremism, white power, greed, and corruption.  

A hapless hate-monger. Billionaire philanthropists with too much plastic surgery. A wildly ambitious (and corrupt) politician. An environmentalist with an anger management problem. In his wildest and most entertaining novel to date, Hiaasen plunges these outrageous (fictitious?) goons into a mystery involving dark money and darker motives and delivers them to their appropriate fates.

Literary Salon with Red Hen Press, Tia Chucha Press, and Letras Latinas

May 1 @ 5:30 pm

We are pleased to invite you to a special literary salon at Red Hen Press in Pasadena on Thursday, May 1 celebrating authors from Red Hen Press, Tia Chucha Press, and the Letras Latinas initiative from the University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies. We welcome William Archila (S is for, The Gravedigger’s Archaeology), Adela Najarro (Variations in Blue), Brent Ameneyro (A Face Out of Clay), Malia Márquez (City of Smoke and Sea), Jose Hernandez Diaz (Portrait of the Artist as a Brown Man), and Luivette Resto (Living on Islands Not Found on Maps), with Francisco Aragón (After Ruben) as our wonderful emcee.

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Date:
May 1
Time:
5:30 pm
Cost:
Free
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Red Hen Press

1540 Lincoln Avenue
Pasadena, CA 91103 United States

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