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Carl Hiaasen won a 2003 Newbery Honor for Hoot, his first book for young people. Adult readers may recognize the title character of his latest book, Skink--No Surrender (Knopf, September 26), from his first appearance, in Double Whammy, written 25 years ago. Hiaasen writes a column for the Miami Herald and lives in Florida--the inspiration for many of his plots and characters--with his family.
On your nightstand now:
Flash Boys by Michael Lewis and a galley proof of Perfidia, James Ellroy's upcoming L.A. novel.
Favorite book when you were a child:
Rascal by Sterling North.
Your top five authors:
(Living authors, in no specific order) Martin Amis, Thomas McGuane, Karen Russell, Jim Harrison and Gary Shteyngart.
Book you've faked reading:
Too many to admit.
Book you are an evangelist for:
The Fragrance of Grass by Guy de la Valdène.
Book you've bought for the cover:
The Godfather by Mario Puzo.
Book that changed your life:
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller.
Favorite line from a book:
"I am at large," from The Bushwhacked Piano by Thomas McGuane.
Book you most want to read again for the first time:
The Comedians by Graham Greene.