Have any of you taken some time to read Warshaw’s new history of surfing? He was kind enough to share a few excerpts on TheInertia.com, and I’ve found them really interesting.
Surf Literature: The New Yorker and Beyond.
**During the 1990s, the mainstream media at last came to view surfing as a permanent cultural fixture. **No
formal announcement, or single event, marked this shift. But more or
less all at once, newspapers and magazines, novelists and documentary
filmmakers, Hollywood studios and New York publishing houses – everybody
seemed to decide that surfing was no longer a novelty or curiosity.