In Dave Barry’s new novel, “Insane City,†a wedding weekend in Miami goes spectacularly wrong when the groom loses the one-of-a-kind ring, rescues a Haitian family on the beach and sets loose an orangutan on the city. Janet Maslin wrote: “Although ‘Insane City’ creaks occasionally, it mostly lives up to the impressive Dave Barry standard of escapist fun.†I recently spoke to Mr. Barry about how Florida is stranger than fiction and other subjects:
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