Pool was a Los Angeles Times legend. His beat was "the Bob Pool story," a perfect slice of the human condition that made reading the daily news bearable.
There are enough surf books out there to fill a Teahupo’o barrel. Only a few meet my criteria for "required reading." Here are 10 every surfer should read.
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He once tried to explain how he wrote about the celebrated. “I try to find why a certain person touches the rest of us, the essence of why we care about this person.”