L.A. Man: Profiles from a Big City and a Small World
The O. Henry Prize Stories 2016
We Dropped a Bomb on You: The Best of Slake I-IVScott Mitchell: The Pull of Space and Light
Published by Treats! Magazine Image © Steve Shaw IF YOU’VE EVER DRIVEN up the Pacific Coast Highway looking for a piece of sandy respite away from the maddening crowds, or maybe you’re lucky and this stretch is your way home, you’ve probably noticed Nobu restaurant, a sleek slice of contemporary modernism on the beach side […]
Burdens and Privileges
March 9, 2016 / Los Angeles Review of Books Burdens by Water: An Unintended Memoir, by Alan Rifkin, Published 2016-02-23, Brown Paper Press, 214 Pages ALAN RIFKIN has been something of a talismanic figure in my life. I’m sure this is news to him because despite his generous thanks to me in the back of Burdens by Water: An Unintended […]
It’s Always Darkest Before the Dawn
Originally published in Huckmagazine, All photos by Henry Cherry. Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson may well be climbing’s first household names. But not everyone knows the demons they stared down when they completed the world’s toughest free climb. DRIVE INTO YOSEMITE NATIONAL Park from the West and the great slab of rock called El Capitan rises […]
Nott’s Landing
From Winter/Spring, 2015 Montecito Journal IN THE HIGHLY UNLIKELY CIRCUMSTANCE you found yourself awake and tromping about the extremely isolated desert surrounding Roswell, New Mexico in the early morning of October 24, and you happened to hear a sonic boom and looked up to the heavens and saw something possibly man-shaped piercing the atmosphere faster […]
What One Wolf’s Extraordinary Journey Means for the Future of Wildlife in America
Published by TakePart THE THREE-YEAR, 3,000-MILE TREK OF OR7 HAS ALTERED SCIENTIFIC DEBATES AND STATE POLICY. BUT WOULD HE FIND A MATE? ON FEB. 5, 2014, THE WORLD’S MOST FAMOUS WOLF woke up somewhere along the Oregon-California border, very likely in the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument, a landscape of Alpine forests and grassland valleys. For the […]
Welcome to Wolf Country
Published by Orion Last year, OR7, the first wild wolf to roam California in nearly a century, met his mate and started a pack in southern Oregon. Sightings of another wolf in the area were reported earlier this week. Author Joe Donnelly took a recent trip to Oregon, retracing his travels described in “Lone Wolf,” […]
Heroes of the Deep Blue
Originally published in Malibu magazine El Porto is the perfect Santa Monica Bay surf break, though not because a coincidence of underwater geography makes thewaves there a little bit bigger and more consistent than most local breaks. That helps, but to me it’s so perfect because its inherent contradictions incorporate our strange, dichotomous relationship to […]
The Monster Out of the Box
Originally published in The Surfer’s Journal A Sandow Birk Omnibus THE GUEST OF HONOR IS DRESSED IN SLACKS, SENSIBLE SHOES, and a button-down shirt that was possibly ironed. Handsome in a retro, California beach boy way, with hair neater than a dry gin martini, he looks more like someone who stepped out of a Jan and […]
The Homecoming of The Wolf
From September issue of Vegas7 After near-extermination – the gray wolf has experienced a Western revival. This is the story of the first one to return to California—and the forces ranged against it.
