Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘Barbarian Days’

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The New York Times

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4.2 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2015

⏱️ 41 minutes

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This week, William Finnegan talks about “Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life”; Alexandra Alter has news from the publishing world; Peter Moore discusses “The Weather Experiment”; questions from readers; and Gregory Cowles has best-seller news. Pamela Paul is the host.

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0:00.0	How do you turn a lifetime of surfing into a memoir?
0:06.4	William Finnegan will join us to talk about his new book, Barbarian Days.
0:10.7	It's all about this experience of beauty.
0:13.9	You know, this certain kind of drenched experience in beauty and the physical risks are very
0:18.6	much footnotes.
0:20.0	How did the field of meteorology evolve?
0:22.4	Peter Moore will tell us about the weather experiment, the pioneers who sought to see
0:27.1	the future.
0:28.1	We had air a month which was divided into future using things like cloud formations and wind
0:34.5	currents and this was considered one of the seventh-bit and arts of Renaissance magic.
0:40.7	Alexander Altair will tell us what's going on in the publishing world.
0:43.9	Greg Cole has bestseller news.
0:46.1	We'll also let readers and listeners ask a few questions for us editors here at the times.
0:50.9	This is Inside the New York Times Booker View.
0:52.5	I'm Pamela Paul.
0:59.1	William Finnegan joins us now.
1:01.9	He is a staff writer at the New Yorker and the author of a new book, Barbarian Days, A
1:07.1	Surfing Life, reviewed this week in the Booker View.
1:09.9	Hi there.
1:10.9	Hi.
1:11.9	So this is in certain ways an expansion of an article you wrote in the New Yorker about
1:17.4	25 years ago called Playing Docs Games.
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