
Michael Scott Moore is a literary journalist and 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 and Popmatters. He was kidnapped in 2012 on a reporting trip to Somalia and held hostage for two and a half years. His book about the ordeal, "The Desert and the Sea," is due out from Harper in mid-2018. He’s covered the European migration crisis for Businessweek, and politics, travel, and literature for The New Yorker, The Atlantic, LitHub, Newlines, Der Spiegel, GQ, The New Republic, The New York Times, and The L.A. Review of Books.
The ghost of Eric, a teenage honor student killed by his friend Tom, a defiant rebel obsessed with A Clockwork Orange, chronicles the story of his life, especially the tumultuous months that led up to his death. A first novel. Original.
by Michael Scott Moore
Rating: 3.6 ⭐
An elegant and surprising history of surfing that examines its cultural influence in some of the most unexpected placesHow did an obscure tribal sport from precolonial Hawaii—one that was nearly eliminated on its home islands by Christian missionaries—jump oceans to California and Australia? And how did it become such a worldwide passion, influencing lives around the globe?
by Michael Scott Moore
Rating: 3.9 ⭐
Michael Scott Moore, a journalist and the author of Sweetness and Blood, incorporates personal narrative and rigorous investigative journalism in this profound and revelatory memoir of his three-year captivity by Somali pirates—a riveting,thoughtful, and emotionally resonant exploration of foreign policy, religious extremism, and the costs of survival.In January 2012, having c