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Susan Casey is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Devil's Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks. She served as creative director of Outside Magazine, where she was part of the editorial team that developed the stories behind the bestselling books Into Thin Air and The Perfect Storm, as well as the 2002 movie Blue Crush. The Toronto-born Casey was also recently named Editor-in-Chief of O, the Oprah Magazine. The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks and Giants of the Ocean was published in September 2010.
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In two separate pieces Susan Casey talks about her remarkable book The Devil's Teeth in which she reports on her time spent with the Great White Sharks, and the extraordinary people who study them, on the Farallon Islands, just 30 miles off the coast of San Francisco; and about the writing of The Wave - about giant waves and those who hunt them.
Watch a video of Susan Casey and Laird Hamilton discussing The Wave
Susan Casey talks about The Devil's Teeth
You're the development editor for Time Inc. and
previously the editor of Sports Illustrated Women and creative director of
Outside magazine. But the idea for the book did not grow out of an assignment.
What drew you to this story?
As a journalist I'm always trolling for compelling stories, but in this
case, the story came to me. I was living in Santa Fe, New Mexico (a truly
land-locked place), working for Outside magazine, and I had developed a raging
case of mononucleosis. As a result, I was spending much more time than usual
lying around, and one day while I was doing just that, I flipped on the TV and
found myself watching the most extraordinary BBC documentary. In the book, I
describe the action onscreen in detail but, ...
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