The Rinc�n Notebooks: Before The Storm - Softcover

Brian Unger

9780989922852: The Rinc�n Notebooks: Before The Storm

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0989922855 ISBN 13: 9780989922852

Publisher: Missing Links Press, 2018

Told through the eyes of an ex-pat professor of American literature, author Norman Fischer describes The Rinc�n Notebooks as ''...a postmodern update of Hunter S. Thompson's The Rum Diary and Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises,'' while surfing historian Scott Laderman says, ''if Hunter S. Thompson wrote about surfing, it would probably look a lot like The Rinc�n Notebooks. Sex, drugs, surf, and Buddhism, The Rinc�n Notebooks has it all.''

The Rinc�n Notebooks will challenge the non-surfing reader's notions of just about everything, and for those familiar with surf culture and the pitfalls of colonialism, it will strike even deeper chords.

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From the Inside Flap:

"If Hunter S. Thompson wrote about surfing, it would probably look a lot like Brian Unger's The Rincon Notebooks. Sex, drugs, surf, and Buddhism, The Rincon Notebooks has it all. " --Scott Laderman, University of Minnesota, author of Empire in Waves: A Political History of Surfing "This novel perfectly encapsulates the ex-pat surfing culture of Rinc�n within the broader historical frame of the Puerto Rican nation. It is a must-read for surfers, Puerto Ricans, and any North American who wants a true taste of Caribbean life on this island. " --Fiore de Castro, artist, rincon surfer."Set in a surf town on Puerto Rico's far west coast, this cockeyed novel is a postmodern update of Hunter S. Thompson's The Rum Diary and Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises. Like its protagonist Brendan McGuinness, author Brian Unger is a Marxist Zen Buddhist surfer-intellectual, a literary scholar and professor trying to figure out the flotsam and jetsam of his life while having drinks with many friends who are doing the same. This is a smart, funny, sad read; a must for the surfing community. " --Norman Fischer, noted poet and zen priest, author of Experience: Thinking, Writing, Language and Religion (essays). "The Rincon Notebooks is an intriguing and insightful yarn about surfing, colonialism, love, and life. It will challenge non-surfing readers' notions of just about anything, and for those familiar with surf culture and the pitfalls of colonialism, it will strike even deeper chords." --Steve Fitzpatrick, photographer-author of Puerto Rico's Surf Culture.

About the Author:

Brian Unger, the author of The Rinc�n Notebooks, studied medieval and classical literature and languages at C.C.N.Y., studied Zen Buddhism at San Francisco Zen Center, and earned an M.A. in English at New York University, and a Ph.D. in English & American Literature at The CUNY Graduate Center.

He is editor and publisher of Zen Monster, a journal of art, literature, religion, and politics relative to the practice of buddhism in North America and Europe. His critical edition of Zen monk Philip Whalen's journals, Bowed Some & Chanted A Little: The Literary Journals of Philip Whalen 1948-1990, is due out in late 2018. Unger lives in Rinc�n, Puerto Rico, where he is writing a sequel to The Rinc�n Notebooks.

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