![]() ![]() ![]() Then I grew fascinated with the layers and layers of meaning. It took me awhile to catch on to the subtlest use of defiance in their language. I never had lived in a place where someone speaking out meant death. I want to be challenged.īOOKS: Did your service in Iraq change you as a reader? GALLAGHER: I try to read things I’m interested in but don’t know a lot about, something that will defy my worldview. My mother handed over some Didion books and told me to read them while keeping in mind that she was from just over the hills in Sacramento.īOOKS: Is the Didion typical of your reading? When I was 15 or 16 I said something to my mother like writers don’t come from Reno. She had a huge influence on me growing up in Reno, Nevada. I recently just reread “Slouching Towards Bethlehem’’ by Joan Didion. Then along comes this novel.īOOKS: Do you read a lot of war literature? With so much literature about the Vietnam War out there you’d think it would all be said and done. GALLAGHER: I’m halfway through “The Sympathizer’’ by Viet Thanh Nguyen, which won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Saturday, June 18, at the Atheneum Great Hall. ![]() Writer and veteran Matt Gallagher returned from Iraq in 2009 with a lot of material for his first book, his memoir “Kaboom.’’ Now Gallagher has drawn from his war experience for his first novel, “Youngblood.’’ He joins a panel of writers at the Nantucket Book Festival at 11 a.m. ![]()
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