Andy Martin
Liquid Cathedrals
William Finnegan makes slowcoach Donna Tartt look like Usain Bolt. He once took eight years to write a single article for the New Yorker, thus blowing her ten for The Goldfinch right out of the water. His book Barbarian Days took him almost an entire lifetime to write (he is now over sixty and still surfing). It was definitely worth the wait. On the other hand, I’m not holding my breath for volume two.
As I read through this far-ranging, unique and bewitching memoir, I kept on thinking, Finnegan, c’est moi!
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