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Excerpting surf culture
Kem Nunn broke into fiction writing with Tapping the Source, his 1984 "surfing novel" set in the beach culture of Huntington Beach, "a twisted world of crazed Vietnam vets, sadistic surfers, drug dealers, and mysterious seducers," one review said. He followed with Unassigned Territory and Pomona Queen, and his latest novel, Tijuana Straits, is excerpted today on the cover of the Times' Outdoor section because of the book's surfing scenery.
Also: Evan Wright, the local Rolling Stone writer, will talk about his Iraq book, Generation Kill, on KCRW's "Politics of Culture" today at 2:30 p.m.
"Generation Kill" is an important book. I wasn't expecting it to have the impact on me that it did. I applaud Evan Wright.
Posted by: Curtis at July 27, 2004 02:01 PMKem Nunn as Fly .... Hmmmmmmmmm
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Kem Nunn is a novelist and also a screenwriter. He started as a novelist, then was hired to adapt his first novel into a screenplay. He's in his 40s. I think he has one kid. He does a lot of high-priced script polishing. So is it a Kem on the wall?
Posted by: Casual Observer at July 27, 2004 01:09 PM