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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 […]
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 […]
Robert Oshatz
Originally published in Treats! magazine. ROBERT OSHATZ has a lot of problems. And they are beautiful. Or, at least, they are by the time he’s done with them. Every one of the Portland-based architect’s signature structures—from the floating Fennell Residence on the Willamette River to the Chenequa Residence, tucked into a West Wisconsin hillside like […]
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 […]
Shaun Tomson – Magic and Loss
Originally published in Huck Magazine, photos by Kevin Zacher. THERE WAS A TIPPING POINT IN SURFING HISTORY when the door of possibility was busted open wide. And Shaun Tomson dealt the final blow. As the first South African World Champion, his transgressive energy helped legitimate surfing as a professional sport. But the determination he showed […]
