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Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Blind
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Nov 07, 2020

At least for me, writing a book is continual exposure to blind spots. There were things I wanted to be true and wanted to believe, but it always got more complicated in the fiction.

Nov 07, 2020

In war, it feels like everything you're doing is more important because you're in the proximity of violence and death, and that proximity changes your relationship to America because it changes the way you see the world.

Politics
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Nov 07, 2020

War is an arena for the display of courage and virtue. Or war is politics by other means. War is a quasi-mystical experience where you get in touch with the real. There are millions of narratives we impose to try to make sense of war.

Nov 07, 2020

I went straight from the Marine Corps to the MFA. The way that you would express things among Marines is somewhat different than the way you're supposed to express things in a creative-writing workshop.

Father
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Nov 07, 2020

There's a tradition of public service in my family. I'm one of three boys that joined the military. My father was in the Peace Corps.

Nov 07, 2020

With fiction, you can take something that bothers you, or that you don't have in clear focus, and you can put it under as much stress as you want. Really get underneath the skin. With nonfiction, you're restricted to what happened.

Look
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Nov 07, 2020

There's a tendency to look at anybody who joined the military as if they underwrote everything that happened policy-wise. That's not really the case. I have a friend who both protested the Iraq War and joined the military, and ended up serving two deployments in Afghanistan.

High
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Nov 07, 2020

Certainly, my exposure in high school to writers like Flannery O'Connor, Shusaku Endo, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Graham Greene was formative.

Language
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Nov 07, 2020

When I was in Marine training I memorised 'The Waste Land,' which was a significant experience in terms of really breaking apart language and thinking about how the different voices in that poem function.

Coffee
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Nov 07, 2020

I write in coffee shops, libraries, parks, museums. I get antsy and then get on my bike and go someplace else, letting the ideas spin around in my head as I dodge taxis.

Love
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Nov 07, 2020

I love opera. I love jazz, especially Mingus. This makes me sound highbrow. I'm not.

High School
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Nov 07, 2020

I grew up a little north of New York City and went to high school at Regis, an all-boys tuition-free high school in Manhattan.

Nov 07, 2020

I ended up going to Dartmouth, and I did Marine Officer Candidate School during my junior summer.

Being
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Nov 07, 2020

There's something odd about working 24/7, being consumed with everything that's happening in Iraq, and then coming back to the country that ordered you over there only to realize that a lot of Americans are not really paying attention.

Nov 07, 2020

I did try to write in Iraq, and I failed. I think you just don't have the brain space for it.

Thoughts
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Nov 07, 2020

War is complicated and intense, and it takes time and thoughts to understand what it was.

Love
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Nov 07, 2020

I have, for a very long time, been a huge admirer of Marilynne Robinson, whose work I just love.

Know
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Nov 07, 2020

Fiction is the best way I know how to think something through.

Nov 07, 2020

You come back from war, and you have a certain authority to talk about war.

Distance
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Nov 07, 2020

In a strange way, you have to have a certain amount of distance from a thing in order to be able to write about it.

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