Pulitzer Prize winner Bill Finnegan comes to Asbury Park
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life Reading & Signing at House of Independents
New Yorker staff writer William Finnegan’s fifth book, an autobiographical chronicle about his passion for surfing, won him a Pulitzer Prize this year.
Released in 2015 by Penguin Press, “Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life” received acclaim from avid surfers and non surfers alike.
“Mr. Finnegan seems to remember every wave he ever surfed,” Dwight Garner wrote in his 2015 New York Times review. “He enshrines the texture of dozens if not hundreds of them. His visual recall is stunning.”
Tracing back to his early life learning to surf throughout Southern California and Hawaii, to his four year stint around the world and the San Francisco’s big wave scene, the anecdotal narrative gives an inside glimpse of life lived in the surf.
On Thursday, The House of Independents will feature ‘An Evening With Bill Finnegan.
Sponsored by the Surfrider Foundation, Jersey Shore Chapter and Glide Surf Co. on Bangs Avenue, the 7 to 9 p.m. event includes a reading, interview and book signing, organizers said. Doors will open at 6 p.m.
Finnegan will share his personal slides Tyler Bruer of SMASH Surf will conduct the live interview.
The event is free and attendees will have a chance to purchase a copy of Barbarian Days, as well as join or renew a membership with the Surfrider Foundation, a nonprofit that works for the protection oceans and beaches through an activist network.
Surfrider also will be accepting used wetsuits to be donated to California based Sugamats, which repurposes them into yoga mats. For more information on the organization, visit their website here.
For more information about the Surfrider Foundation, visit www.surfrider.org.
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