The Rap Sheet: Surf Noir: Get on Board.
The 12 Darkest Endings in the History of Noir Fiction Noir is known for bleakness and despair. These 12 books outdo them all.
Don Winslow's Return to California Noir The author discusses socially-engaged crime fiction, surf stories, breakfast burritos, and returning to life on the coast.
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The almost-true, partially-true Surf Route 101 short story is only partially written, but, with a few moments to screw around before I have to go to work, I did some searching for a photo that might work as a temporary illustration. If I can share the thought process: Thanks.
Best Books on Surfing for Surfers Noticed there wasn't a list for surf lit, though there's plenty out there. Fiction, non-fiction, biography, essays, philosophy, whatever.
Kem Nunn is the progenitor of a unique style of fiction loosely referred to as “surf noir.” He hit the literary scene in the early ’80s with his first surf-stunner, Tapping the Source, which has become a beloved work of cult fiction regardless of its limited availability. If you ask ANY surfer why he or she surfs, chances are they will all give you a similar answer; that there is a zen.
Dexter McCray is a farmer with a dark past that continues to haunt him. As a struggling alcoholic, he's used to being looked at with pity and suspicion in his community. After wak.
Surf, Sweat and Tears takes us into the world of global surfing, revealing a dark side beneath the dazzling sun and cream-crested waves. Here is surf noir at its most compelling, a dystopian tale of one man’s obsessions, wiped out in a grizzly true crime.
After piddling away his 20s, Nunn studied writing at UC Irvine and in 1984 published Tapping the Source. Centered on a naive teenager swept up in one surf crew’s Mafia-ish, pornographic-druggie-biker underbelly, Tapping the Source not only spawned the term “surf noir” for its dark themes and gripping narrative style, but it single-handedly saved what was previously a joke genre.
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This is the biography page for Jeff McElroy. Author Jeff McElroy received his MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University. He won First Place in the Writer's Digest Short Story Contest for 'Brown Pride.' His stories 'The Tipsy Fox' and 'Song of the Earth' were selected to represent the Antioch MFA Program at the 2008 and 2009 AWP Awards.
In his surf noir novels, Kem Nunn wrote about surfing and about the people who make up the gritty, ugly and painful reality that seems to be life in California (see previous reviews of Tapping the Source and The Dogs of Winter ). In Pomona Queen, he gives us a day in the life of Dean Earl.
Noir fiction (or roman noir) is a literary genre closely related to hardboiled genre, with a distinction that the protagonist is not a detective, but instead either a victim, a suspect, or a perpetrator. Other common characteristics include a self-destructive protagonist.
