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It's been a bittersweet week for surf literature.

It's been a bittersweet week for surf literature.

By Dan Sheehan | October 7, 2020

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Ethan Hawke's new (autobiographical) novel is full of rage and sex and longing and despair.

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Irish poet Derek Mahon has died, but he left behind this lyric of hope.

Irish poet Derek Mahon has died, but he left behind this lyric of hope.

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"Any sort of drug distorts it." Truman Capote on writing under the influence.

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Tremble, puny book awards, before the awesome power of Obama's memoir.

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An incomplete history of <em>Cat on a Hot Tin Roof</em>: the good, the bad, and the ugly.

An incomplete history of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: the good, the bad, and the ugly.

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Here are six movie adaptations that drastically changed their novels’ endings.

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