{"id":1363,"date":"2013-06-27T20:57:42","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T01:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/38enso.com\/?p=1363"},"modified":"2013-10-27T13:04:21","modified_gmt":"2013-10-27T18:04:21","slug":"carl-hiaasen-jimmy-buffett-and-michael-eisner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/38enso.com\/?p=1363","title":{"rendered":"Carl Hiaasen, Jimmy Buffett and Michael Eisner…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Carl Hiaasen has a new book out titled BAD MONKEY<\/a>. It looks great and in the style that I have come to love from Hiaasen. I first started reading him with his first book TOURIST SEASON. Then pretty much read every one of his novels for adults. I have not read the YA ones though.<\/p>\n

Hiaasen always appealed to me because of the warped sense of humor and the fantastic characters. Plus his background writing for the Sun-Sentinel newspaper led him to stranger truth than fiction. Many of those real people and situations made it into his novels of the bizarre world of South Florida.<\/p>\n

\"books\"<\/a>He is a native Floridian and has always been an outspoken critic of big business and their abuse of the land and culture. In 1998, he penned a short book for Ballantine\u2019s Library of American Thought called TEAM RODENT: How Disney Devours the World<\/i>.<\/a>\u00a0Needless to say the book was highly critical of Disney.<\/p>\n

\"eisner\"<\/a>In 1998, I was Sales Director at Random House. One of my responsibilities was to attend dinners and lunches with key authors and key customers. We were publishing then-Disney CEO Michael Eisner\u2019s autobiography WORK IN PROGRESS<\/a>. Over a three-day period I had two lunches and one dinner with him and key buyers from B&N, Borders and Costco. The B&N and Borders lunches were in NYC and the Costco one was at the Disney HQ in California.<\/p>\n

I was seated next to Eisner at one of the lunches. He asked me what I was reading. Random House had just published Jimmy Buffett\u2019s A PIRATE LOOKS AT FIFTY<\/a> (more on that in another blog post) and it was a #1 best-seller and a major smash.<\/p>\n

\"0679435271.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_\"<\/a>I mentioned Buffett to Eisner. He wasn\u2019t aware of Jimmy and his Parrot-head appeal. So I was reaching for an author to compare. I mentioned that Buffett represented the laid-back life-style and party feel of South Florida and the Caribbean. That he was similar to Carl Hiaasen.<\/p>\n

Eisner straighten up and asked, \u201cIsn\u2019t Hiaasen the one who wrote that critical book about Disney?\u201d Whoops?!? I got the sense that Eisner wasn\u2019t use to hearing anything critical of him nor Disney. I said that it was but that Hiaasen\u2019s \u201cfiction is based in fact\u201d \u2013 and his \u201cfact is actually based in fiction.\u201d It was a lame excuse.<\/p>\n

Everything turned out ok. But I didn’t expect any offers from Disney…<\/p>\n

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