Charlie Rose: January 25, 2000

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First, a conversation with novelist V.S. Naipaul, who discusses a new collection of correspondences with his father that he has published called "Between Father and Son". Naipaul was born in Trinidad to Hindu parents and left home at the age of 17 on a scholarship to Oxford University in 1950. During that period, he regularly exchanged letters with his father, also a writer, until the senior Naipaul died suddenly of a heart attack in 1953. Later, writer Carl Hiaasen, metro columnist for the "Miami Herald", discusses his eighth novel, "Sick Puppy", which chronicles the intersection of corrupt South Florida politics and environmental exploitation.