Episode 154: William Finnegan
William Finnegan is a New Yorker staff writer and the author of Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life.\n\n\u201cI suppose in retrospect I was just trying to find out what the world held that nobody could tell me about until I got there. I was a big reader and had a couple of degrees by that point, but there was something not well over the horizon that I wanted to get near and record and understand, and I even felt like it would transform me.\u201d\n\nThanks to TinyLetter, SquareSpace, and The Great Courses for sponsoring this week's episode.\n\nShow Notes:\nFinnegan on Longform\nFinnegan's New Yorker archive\n[6:00] "Playing Doc's Games" (New Yorker \u2022 Aug 1992)\n[8:00] Crossing the Line: A Year in the Land of Apartheid (Persea \u2022 1986)\n[37:00] "The Emergency" (New Yorker \u2022 May 1989) [sub req'd]\n[38:00] "Getting The Story" (New Yorker \u2022 June 1987) [sub req'd]\n[40:00] "A Theft in The Library" (New Yorker \u2022 Oct 2005) [sub req'd]\n[41:00] "Tears of the Sun: A Fortune at the Top of the World" (New Yorker \u2022 Apr 2015)\n[49:00] Of a Fire on the Moon (Norman Mailer \u2022 Grove Press \u2022 1985)\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices