![]() As a teenager, he earned respect at some of the toughest surf breaks in Hawaii. Surfing has been his addiction since he was 11 years old and his father ordered him to catch three waves in the teeth-chattering ocean off Ventura, Calif. He does not want people to know he surfs.īut he does surf, often and just about anywhere he can find waves: Fiji, Australia, Portugal, South Africa. He wants to be taken seriously as a political journalist and pundit. He is working on a nonfiction book, his fourth, about the effects of poverty on young people in America. He’s landed a staff position with the New Yorker, to which he contributes stories and opinion pieces on foreign wars and domestic troubles. ![]() ![]() In “Barbarian Days,” William Finnegan’s recent memoir, the California- and Hawaii-raised writer moves to New York. ![]()
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