Matt Gallagher

Matt Gallagher is the author of the novel Youngblood, a finalist for the 2016 Dayton Literary Peace Prize. His new novel, Empire City, will be published in April.  

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The Things They Carried Author Tim O'Brien Returns to Contemplate Fatherhood and America at War

To disappear from the world as you know it and escape to something else—Who hasn’t heard that siren call? It’s long been a theme in the work of The Things They Carried author Tim O’Brien,...

By Matt Gallagher

Nick McDonell Counts the Innocent Lives Lost in the Post-9/11 Wars

Conflict journalism tends to attract a type: seekers willing to risk a violent, premature death and clean worldview in the pursuit of something as amorphous and unknowable as “truth.” Reconciling the power of bearing witness...

By Matt Gallagher
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