We close the 2025 Sun Valley Writers’ Conference on a note of high hilarity with one of our favorite and funniest authors, CARL HIAASEN, talking about his brand-new novel Fever Beach, another classic based—where else—in his home state of Florida. He will have you from the opening sentence, when a man named Dale Figgo picks up a hitchhiker on Gus Grissom Boulevard in Tangelo Shores, Florida. Their escapades will take them deep into Florida at its most Floridian: a sun-soaked bastion of rightwing extremism, white power, greed, and corruption. Hiaasen is the author of seven novels for young readers and fifteen previous novels for adults, including Bad Monkey, recently adapted into a hit Apple series starring Vince Vaughn, and which, if you haven’t already seen it, you will certainly want to after hearing this talk.

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