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Justin Hocking is the author of The Great Floodgates of the Wonderworld, and is an avid surfer and skateboarder. He lives in Portland, Oregon, and teaches creative writing at the Independent Publishing Resource Center and Eastern Oregon University. www.doorway.ru More by author. Surfing in Far Rockaway, romantic obsession, and Moby-Dick converge in this winning and refreshing memoir. Justin Hocking lands in New York hopeful but adrift-he's jobless, unexpectedly overwhelmed and disoriented by the city, struggling with anxiety and obsession, and attempting to maintain a faltering long-distance relationship. “The Great Floodgates of the Wonderworld is transcendent. Justin Hocking explores what it means to be a skateboarder, a surfer, and a writer, and he lays bare the pains and joys of each, the surprising ways the endeavors mirror one another. The book is thrilling in its structure and moving in its emotion and conviction. The chapters roll like waves, carrying you along and breaking over you, washing you in revelation after revelation.”.
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