Years later, I’d liken it to a jigsaw puzzle – writing helped put the pieces together of our various patrols and interactions with Iraqi locals. The blog was an escape from our day-to-day travails, something I maintained to make sense of the strangeness and violence and contradictions of life as a counterinsurgent. Did the people serving with you know you were the author? What was their reaction? It was shut down when you wrote about how you turned down a promotion so that you could stay with your soldiers. He holds an MFA in fiction from Columbia and has written for The New York Times, Esquire, and The Paris Review.When you were deployed to Iraq, you wrote an anonymous blog, Kaboom, about your frontline experiences. He’s the author of the novels Youngblood and the memoir Kaboom: Embracing the Suck in a Savage Little War. Matt Gallagher is a Wake Forest graduate and US Army veteran. Junger is also a documentary filmmaker whose debut film Restrepo (co-directed with Tim Hetherington) was nominated for an Academy Award and won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance. As an award-winning journalist, a contributing editor to Vanity Fair, and a special correspondent at ABC News, he has covered major international news stories around the world and has received both a National Magazine Award and a Peabody Award. Sebastian Junger is the New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Storm, Fire, A Death in Belmont, War, and Tribe. Weaving in research on primatology, boxing strategy, the history of labor strikes, Apache raiders, the role of women in resistance movements, and the brutal reality of life on the Pennsylvania frontier, he presents a stunning examination of the primary desire that defines us-freedom. In conversation with veteran and author Matt Gallagher, he relates about dodging railroad cops, sleeping under bridges, cooking over fires, and drinking from creeks and rivers, ultimately forging a unique reliance on one another. Bestselling author Sebastian Junger created an experiment to examine that tension between individualism and dependence that lies at the heart of what it means to be human, and he joins us via livestream to share what he has learned.Įncompassed in his book Freedom, Junger tells us about his journey walking the railroad lines of the East Coast with three friends-a conflict photographer and two Afghan War vets. We value individuality and self-reliance, yet are utterly dependent on community for our most basic needs, a fact which has never been more clear than over the last year. Throughout history, humans have been driven by the quest for two cherished ideals: community and freedom. This is a virtual event taking place via Town Hall Seattle.
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