Michael Scott Moore's Blog

The Silver Waves of Summer

Coming this August! A new "surf noir" anthology featuring short fiction by me and a stellar cast of writers, including Antoine Wilson, Tod Goldberg, Naomi Hirahara, songwriter Steve Wynn, & others.

New Short Story

"Bronzeville Beach and Supper Club," historical fiction about America's first black surfer, and racism on the California coast, is up at Kelp Journal: https://www.kelpjournal.com/post/bron...

The Pirates of California

I took a ride on "The Pirates of the Caribbean" at Disneyland & wrote an essay about it for The Paris Review:

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2...

Paperbacks Have Arrived

The Desert and the Sea is now out in paperback, with a new essay by the author (okay, by me) as an Afterword:

https://www.indiebound.org/book/97800...

https://www.amazon.com/Desert-Sea-Cap...

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-...