Kick Ass Selected Columns of Carl Hiaasen ed. by Diane Stevenson (Review)

Kick Ass Selected Columns of Carl Hiaasen ed. by Diane Stevenson (University Press of Florida, 1999)

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Kick Ass Selected Columns of Carl Hiaasen ed. by Diane Stevenson (Review)

by David Zucchino
Southern Cultures, Vol. 6, No. 3: Fall 2000

University Press of Florida, 1999

Carl Hiaasen is blessed with what the military calls a “target-rich environment.” He has the good fortune to patrol South Florida, home to venal politicians, craven public servants, horny cops, rapacious sports team owners, profligate sugar barons and all manner of spectator sports involving carnivorous animals. For a newspaper columnist, this is open seasonwith no limits.

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