There are No Sharks

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Feature • 14 min read

A brief on late-millennial big-wave waterman Marty Hoﬀman

By Steve Barilotti

Volume 23 Issue 5 (2014)

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South Shore ripper turned pro angler Matty Wong…

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Short fiction from 1967.

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Musings on our strenuous idioms.

By Tim Baker

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Volume 23 Issue 5

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This issue centers around a sprawling analysis of the Fletcher and Hoffman clan, with characters ranging from Christian to Flippy, Joyce to Dibi, and generational stories that span surfing’s entire modern age. Page space is also reserved for a road-and-boat trip through the nether regions of Chile, as well as a tonally rich portfolio of Indian Ocean photography from Tom Hawkins.

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