William Finnegan

He's wearing quite the sweater vest.

And anyway, I clicked on it because he's visibly holding William Finnegan's Barbarian Days cover out for the entirety of the clip, but does not talk about Barbarian Days at any point.

Instead, I mean, uh, picture perfect.

He carries, he carries Anne Lamott's Bird by Bird with him wherever he goes, he claims.

the, well, it's also the truest, uh, example of, like, hot dudes reading.

Sure.

It is true that every hot dude I know just loves William Finnegan's, uh, Barbarian Days, and I did too.

And I, it's, it is, it is the essence of a hot dude in book form-

kind of exists now.

But, you know, William Finnegan, who won the Pulitzer for Barbarian Days, he had to hide from people that he was a surfer.

Yeah.

But that's like...

Right.

But in terms of the kind of books I want to exist in the world that I, you know, am trying to vouchsafe and for my own consumption, if anything, I still think that Barbarian Days by William Finnegan is not really subject to LLMs and podcasts.

You know?

Yeah, that's a book you wanna-

What were her top book recommendations?

She highly recommended Barbarian Days by William Finnegan.

It's about a New Yorker reporter who falls in love with surfing.

She took away the lesson that you can be deeply passionate about something and strive for excellence without ever reaching perfection.

What are two or three books that you find yourself recommending most to other people?

One book I really recommend to people is Barbarian Days by William Finnegan.

I don't know if you've read it.

It's about a, the life of a man who is a New Yorker reporter, about how he fell in love with surfing as his passion.