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It's so much harder than it looks - to conjure a fictional world that some passing wolf of skepticism can't just blow down in one breath.

Hawaii is the birthplace of surfing, and many Hawaiians or part-Hawaiians surf, but in the rest of the United States it's a pretty white sport.

Inequality is on the rise.

Mandela's political evolution was gradual.

I'm trying to find out what's actually true, which is nearly always something, if not a world of things, that you can't read in books.

Memoir is a weird genre for a reporter. You end up investigating your own memories, reporting out your past.

For billionaires who cannot buy good press, there is the option of buying the press.

Writing felt like it justified, barely, my existence -- this extremity of obscurity I had chosen.

Surfing, to begin with, was not a "sport." It was a "path." And the more you poured into it, the more you got back from it - he