LW8: Matt Gallagher

Army veteran and best-selling author Matt Gallagher sits down with the LitWar Podcast to discuss the virtues of misadventure, what a patriot looks like in an ever-increasingly complicated world, and his new novel, Daybreak, which comes out February 20, 2024. Preorder here!

 

Matt Gallagher is the author of the novels Empire City and Youngblood, a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. His work has appeared in Esquire, ESPN, The New York Times, The Paris Review and Wired, among other places. He’s also the author of the Iraq war memoir Kaboom and coeditor of, and contributor to, the short fiction collection Fire & Forget: Short Stories from the Long War.

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