“BLACK SEA BLUES,” BY WILLIAM FINNEGAN (1999)
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William Finnegan's "Black Sea Blues" ran in the August 15, 1999, issue of the New Yorker * * * I could have been the first man to surf the Black Sea. I got off a bus in a coastal village somewhere in northern Turkey, and there it was: brown and misty and full of mediocre, blown-out waves, dribbling in from the general direction of Odessa. This was 1970. I was a hippie surf punk from California d...
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