The Rincon Notebooks ― Before the Storm

Told through the eyes of an ex-pat professor of American literature, author Norman Fischer describes The Rincon 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 Rincón Notebooks. Sex, drugs, surf, and Buddhism, The Rincón Notebooks has it all." The Rincon 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.

Brian Unger, the author of "The Rincon 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 Rincon, Puerto Rico, where he is writing a sequel to The Rincon Notebooks.AUTHOR HOME: New Jersey