William Finnegan, author of Barbarian Days – A Surfing Life, talks about his memoir as a surfer, on Nashville Public Television’s, A Word on Words.
William Finnegan recommends:
The Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante
Homage To Catalonia by George Orwell
Burning The Days by James Salter
William Finnegan is reading:
City Of Bohane by Kevin Barry
Purity by Jonathan Franzen
A God In Ruins by Kate Atkinson
Just Kids by Patti Smith
Dispatches by Michael Herr
Special thanks to Humanities Tennessee and Southern Festival of Books.