Thrilled to share the latest in Soundings Season 02. Paul Theroux has been a hero of mine since a friend passed along “The Family Arsenal” in my very porous late teens. I devoured it in a cheap seaside hotel in Lacanau, France with eggs, about a whole baguette, and way too much hot chocolate in my stomach (I’d lost first heat in the Lacanau Pro; I was depressed). The waves of Paul’s prose were far more luminous than the waves in the blown-out sea, and they took to me places unfamiliar in my surfer bro world. More of Paul’s books followed - more books in general. There was an inner life to literature that teased out/plunged me deeper into my own inner life. “Chicago Loop,” “The Mosquito Coast,” “Sunrise with Seamonsters,” etc. etc. I can quote passages from all of them. Thank you, Paul! Soundings: Season 02 With Jamie Brisick Paul Theroux is an established travel writer and novelist residing on the North Shore of Oahu. Author of numerous acclaimed works such as The Great Railway Bazaar and The Mosquito Coast, Theroux’s stories are imbued with the virtues of globetrotting and self-discovery. As a child, Theroux recalls fantasizing about the distant worlds he read about in books—destinations of possibility that contrasted to his tribalistic upbringing as one of seven children in a small New England town. Theroux joined the Peace Corps in 1963 and began teaching in Malawi. In this episode, he sits down with Jamie Brisick to talk about what influenced his birth as a writer, the importance of grasping and respecting the nuances of your surroundings on land and at sea, and the relationship between place and self-discovery. @paul.theroux @surfersjournal Photo by Christopher Pillitz/Getty Images @christopherpillitz