Festival of the Arts Boca is proud to present “Florida Man: Carl Hiaasen” at Mizner Park Amphitheater on March 5, 2025!

Called “America’s finest satirical novelist” (The London Observer), Carl Hiaasen has been compared to Preston Sturges, Woody Allen, and S.J. Perelman (The New York Times). His 13 novels have been published in 34 languages. And, most recently, his novel Bad Monkey has been turned into a series on Apple TV.

“You wait long enough in Florida and the other shoe drops,” Hiaasen said in a recent interview with GQ, talking about the absurdity of politics and social issues in the state. The journalist in that interview summarized things well when he said:

“In the world of American publishing, [Hiassen] is one-of-one. If there’s any living American writer funnier, then they lack his edge and his readership. No one more politically pointed can touch the sleekness of his prose. If you want to call Hiaasen the Mark Twain of post-Vietnam America, you’ll get no arguments here.”

Hiaasen will join us for an evening of storytelling and commentary, which could well involve considerable shoe-dropping…

Learn more and reserve your tickets here!