Redeployment
Phil Klay talked about his book Redeployment, a collection of short stories about soldiers who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan and their experiences in the U.S. while between deployments. Mr.…
732 viewsPhil Klay talked about his book Redeployment, a collection of short stories about soldiers who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan and their experiences in the U.S. while between deployments. Mr.…
732 viewsAnthony Swofford, former Marine sniper and author of Jarhead, talked about his life since leaving the military. He responded to questions from members of the audience at the Pritzker Militar…
503 viewsAnthony Swofford discussed his Gulf War memoir Jarhead: A Marine’s Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles, published by Scribner. In 1990, Mr. Swofford, a young Marine or “jarhead,” was…
945 viewsA panel of authors talked about their books about the appeal of war. Topics included definitions of honor, group cohesiveness, the testing of masculinity, and aggression. After their present…
355 viewsThe panelists discussed the emotional strain of writing about war. Swofford is a veteran of the first Gulf War and author of Jarhead: A Marine’s Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles. …
127 viewsTimothy Ferris, author of Seeing in the Dark: How Backyard Stargazers are Probing Deep Space and Guarding Earth from Interplanetary Peril, published by Simon and Schuster, was interviewed a…
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