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Rob Ziegler on War
Rob Ziegler lives with his wife in rural western Colorado. SEED is his first novel. I was six when I learned about the end of the world. My dad and I were having burgers at the Boardwalk, our little...
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Something That Matters
Rob’s terrific guest post yesterday really struck a chord with me, because I, too, once wanted to be in the military. Both my grandfathers served in the armed forces, and my dad spent eight years in...
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War. What Is It Good For?
Courtney’s and Rob’s posts are well worth reading. My experience with war started quite a bit earlier. You see, I was a child during the Vietnam War. I remember eating dinner while brutal images from...
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Ithaca – An Excerpt
Humankind might, on the whole, desire peace and harmonious co-existence. However, we’re infinitely fascinated by war, and conflict, possibly as a subset of our fascination with our own mortality. War...
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Conflict
I don’t especially think of myself as a girly girl, but gender differences come up every time The Spouse and I read war books. We’re both interested in wars. We’ve read extensively about the wars of...
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In the Trenches
I don’t really remember what I read in my youth that gave me a romantic view of war, but I certainly had one by the time I started taking writing more seriously. I suppose some of the blame can be...
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Mangled Bodies, War Brides, and Writing About Violence
My grandmother: French war bride. Shot at by Nazi planes. Made a mean deviled egg. My grandmother was a war bride, and I grew up soaked in stories of Nazi-occupied France. My grandfather’s occasional...
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The Luxury of War
One of the things that has recurrently made my personal relationships more, um, challenging, is that I can’t stop thinking about war. I spent most of my childhood dreaming about killing people. I just...
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