Grajagan, Java, 1979

Surfing, Gangs, and LSD: The Upbringing of a <em>New Yorker</em> Staff Writer

The Leonard Lopate Show | Aug 4, 2015

New Yorker staff writer William Finnegan discusses his memoir, Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life. Finnegan started surfing as a child, was a member of a whites-only gang in Honolulu, and camped on an uninhabited island in Fiji. His travels took him to a Samoan fishing village, the Indonesian black market, and he nearly succumbed to malaria.

Events

William Finnegan will be speaking and signing books at Pilgrim Surf + Supply, 68 N 3rd St. Brooklyn, NY 11249, August 5 at at 6:00 p.m.

William Finnegan will be speaking and signing books at Books & Books Westhampton Beach, 49 Sunset Ave. Westhampton Beach, NY 11978, August 8 at 11:00 a.m.

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