Readings and Events

… this week, next week, and into the autumn for The Desert and the Sea:

July 19
Pages, a bookstore
7pm
Reserve early; ticket price includes book purchase
904 Manhattan Ave.
Manhattan Beach, CA

July 23
The Half King Bar & Restaurant
7pm
505 West 23rd Street
New York City

July 28
Politics & Prose Bookstore
1pm
5015 Connecticut Ave NW
Washington, DC

August 1
Vroman’s Bookstore
7pm
695 E Colorado Blvd
Pasadena, CA

September 4
USC Annenberg School of Journalism
Los Angeles, CA
Details to come

October 17
Mechanics’ Institute Library
Part of LitQuake
7pm (subject to change)
57 Post St.
San Francisco, CA 94104

October 18
Book Passage
7pm
51 Tamal Vista Blvd.
Corte Madera, CA 94925

October 22
The Frontline Club
13 Norfolk Pl
London, UK
Details to come

Michael Scott Moore is a journalist and a novelist, author of a comic novel about L.A., Too Much of Nothing, as well as a travel book about surfing, Sweetness and Blood, which was named a best book of 2010 by The Economist. He’s won Fulbright, Logan, and Pulitzer Center grants for his nonfiction, as well as a Silver Nautilus Award in Journalism and Investigative Reporting; and Yaddo, MacDowell, and DeWitt Wallace–Reader’s Digest fellowships for his fiction.

He’s been a visiting professor at the Columbia School of the Arts and UC Riverside. He worked for several years as an editor and writer at Spiegel Online in Berlin. Michael was kidnapped in early 2012 on a reporting trip to Somalia and held hostage by pirates for 32 months. The Desert and the Sea, a memoir about that ordeal, became an international bestseller.

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Hellfire from Paradise Ranch

My review of a book about the drone war, Hellfire from Paradise Ranch, is up at the Los Angeles Review of Books.

Planet Waves

While I was in Somalia a man called Geoff Carter wrote about a picture of Indian men surfing on stand-up boards around 1800 off Chennai, which altered the known history of surfing a bit, even though the picture was hiding in plain sight at the Australian National Maritime Museum.

The Language of Torture

My review of Ingrid Betancourt's first novel, The Blue Line, is up at the Los Angeles Review of Books.

26 Hostages Freed

The men from the Naham 3 are all friends of mine — a crew of 26 sailors from southeast Asia who worked on a tuna long-liner flagged in Oman but owned by a company in Taiwan, which abandoned them after Somali pirates hijacked the ship in 2012.