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  • 2 weeks ago | andrawatkins.substack.com | Andra Watkins |William Finnegan

    Thank you , , , , and many others for tuning into my live video with ! We had a great turnout. Here are links to ’s Substacks: (which is predominately the one we referenced today)William hosts Discor…Listen to this episode with a 7-day free trialSubscribe to For Such a Time as This to listen to this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives. William A.

  • 2 months ago | onlinewritingclub.com | Kristina God |William Finnegan

    Put a hand up if you’ve ever…🤚🏻Felt like everything is jacked. 🤚🏻Thought Substack is a space to make sense of it. 🤚🏻Felt like what you’re reading and watching in the news is not normal. For today’s podcast I invited tribe member (William A. for “Anonymous”; Finnegan is his nom de plume) from The Long Memo and Borderless Living to share his insights.

  • Aug 10, 2024 | wired.jp | William Finnegan

    ジョック・サザーランドが幼少期を過ごしたオアフ島のノースショアにある家屋は、彼に案内してもらったときには、絵に描いたような廃墟になっていた。真珠湾攻撃の後に建てられたこの家は、第二の攻撃に備えて軍が大急ぎで整備した海辺の木造兵舎のひとつだった。建物は海を包み込むような柔らかなV字型で、シンプルなデッキに面して鎧窓が並んでいる。眼下の岬の岩場に波が打ちつけている。サザーランドの母、オードリーはこの家を1961年に15,000ドル(当時の為替レートで540万円)で購入し、その後60年近く住んだ。 その家屋はわたしの目にはまだ居住可能に映ったけれど、サザーランドはもう住めないと言う。「乾燥腐敗して、錆びていて、壁はぼろぼろ。解体対象だ」 感傷的な様子は何もなかった。 「とにかく、近隣の様子を見てみろ」...

  • Jul 13, 2024 | surfer.com | William Finnegan |Kathy Lette |Paul Theroux |Kem Nunn

    Surf literature isn't, always, an oxymoron. And sure there’s a load of books out there in the Amazon warehouses that depict surfing in all its forms. Autobiographies, biographies, coffee-table beauties, travel guides, and how-tos.  Yet quality surfing literature is thinner on the ground. Surfing, for some inexplicable reason, doesn’t always lend itself to great works of art.

  • Jun 3, 2024 | newyorker.com | William Finnegan

    Jock Sutherland’s childhood home, on Oahu’s North Shore, was a picturesque ruin when he brought me there. It was built after the attack on Pearl Harbor: a wooden barracks at the water’s edge, part of the military’s frantic preparations for a second attack. The building had a soft V shape, as if embracing the ocean, with a line of louvred windows opening onto a basic deck. Waves pounded the rocky point below.

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