Ring in the season with the perfect literary gift: author and New Yorker staff writer William Finnegan’s memoir “Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life,” the 2016 Pulitzer Prize winner for biography.

Finnegan will sign copies of his book and talk story over pupu and cocktails with fellow readers, writers and revelers on Wednesday at Books & Spirits, the third in a series of book events launched this year.

Finnegan, originally from California, lived in Honolulu and attended Kaimuki Intermediate School in the late 1960s, when his parents worked here. He has returned frequently to surf and visit with family.

His frank, funny and at times terrifying book, which the Pulitzer Committee called “a literary road movie,” recounts his initiation into a multicultural Hawaii that launched his worldwide quest for waves and, as it turns out, self-understanding.

Books & Spirits takes place from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday at RevoluSun Smart Home, 210 Ward Ave., Suite 140. Parking is free. A reception from 6:30 to 7:15 p.m. is $25; general admission, starting at 7 p.m., is $20 ($15 in advance from 808ne.ws/barbarianbook).