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☆ Christopher Paolini Wanted a Job Involving Dragons, So He Created One
  + stars: | 2023-12-02 | by ( Stefano Montali | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
In the months before Christopher Paolini wrote the book that made him a star in young adult fantasy, he built a hobbit hole. His family self-published the book, and for more than a year, he promoted it as he could, hand-selling copies outside bookstores and giving presentations at schools. Eventually, Carl Hiaasen, a best-selling novelist, picked up a self-published copy at a grocery store while on a family trip to Montana. His stepson — who, according to Hiaasen, said “Eragon” was “better than Harry Potter!” — finished the 500-page book in a day. Hiaasen passed the book to his editor at Random House Children’s Books, connecting Paolini to the New York publishing world.
Persons: Christopher Paolini, He’d, he’d, — Leo Tolstoy, Alexandre Dumas, Jane Austen, ” Paolini, wasn’t, ”, Eragon, Carl Hiaasen, —, Hiaasen, Eragon ”, Harry Potter, ” — Organizations: Random, New Locations: Paradise Valley, Mont, Montana, Paolini, New York
☆ Novelist Tim Dorsey, Who Mixed Comedy and Murder in His Serge A. Storms Stories, Dies at 62
  + stars: | 2023-11-28 | by ( Associated Press | Nov. | At P.M. | ) www.usnews.com   time to read: +4 min
NEW YORK (AP) — Tim Dorsey, a former police and courts newspaper reporter who found lasting fame as the creator of the crime-comedy novel series starring Serge A. Storms, an energetic fan of Florida history and an ingenious serial killer, has died. Dorsey, who published 26 novels, died Sunday, according to Danielle Bartlett, a publicity director at William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins. Fans of Dorsey appreciated his clever observations and satirical pokes at the weirdness of Florida. He was part of a trio of former newspapermen from Florida — including Dave Barry and Carl Hiaasen — who found a rich vein of absurdist humor in the state. “It was a privilege and honor to work with Tim Dorsey.
Persons: — Tim Dorsey, Serge A, Dorsey, Danielle Bartlett, William Morrow, Dave Barry, Carl Hiaasen —, Tim Dorsey, Serge, Storms, Emily Krump, Coleman, Florida grifters, ”, “, ’ ”, Bruce DeSilva, Kurt Vonnegut, hasn’t, ” Dorsey, ___ Mark Kennedy Organizations: HarperCollins, Maltese, Torino, The Associated Press, “, Auburn University, The Alabama, The Tampa Tribune Locations: Florida, Tabasco, Indiana, Tribune’s Tallahassee
☆ Coming of Age in the Sunshine State
  + stars: | 2023-06-17 | by ( Carl Hiaasen | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: 1 min
THROUGH THE GROVES, by Anne HullWhatever it meant to be a Floridian while I was growing up is no longer accessible as an identity. Too many beautiful places have been drained dry, or buried beneath concrete. That’s what happens when the population of your home state explodes almost sevenfold in your lifetime. Anne Hull conveys the loss starkly in “Through the Groves,” her new memoir: “Almost nothing in Florida stays the way it was. It was Central Florida in the ’60s, when Disney’s bulldozers were gassing up on the horizon.
Persons: Anne Hull, Groves, ”, It’s, Hull Organizations: THE Locations: THE GROVES, Florida, Central Florida
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