'Barbarian Days' Interview with William Finnegan, Writer's Symposium by the Sea 2023
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Interview about "Barbarian Days" with William Finnegan and Ben Cater, hosted by the PLNU Honors Program as part of the 2023 Writer's Symposium by the Sea, Writing That Celebrates.
William Finnegan is an award-winning reporter, a staff writer at The New Yorker, and the author of five books, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning book "Barbarian Days", a memoir about his lifelong passion for surfing. In addition to "Barbarian Days", Finnegan’s books include "Crossing the Line: A Year in the Land of Apartheid", which was chosen by The New York Times Book Review as one of the top ten nonfiction books of the year; "Cold New World: Growing Up in a Harder Country", which was a finalist for the Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism; "Dateline Soweto: Travels with Black South African Reporters"; and "A Complicated War: The Harrowing of Mozambique".
Included in the ticket is live music to begin at 6:15, when doors open for general admission seating.
The 28th Annual Writer's Symposium by the Sea will be February 21-24, 2023, also featuring Pulitzer winning writers N. Scott Momaday, Maria Hinojosa and William Finnegan. For more info, visit here!
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