LitWar Podcast Lethal Minds Journal & The Literature of War Foundation

Army Ranger, editor, and author Marty Skovlund Jr. sits down with the LitWar Podcast to discuss his book SEND ME which tells the powerful story of Shannon Kent, a Cryptologic Technician who rose to the apex of the military as an intelligence operative in elite special operations units. She spent a career hunting the world’s most ruthless terrorists while navigating a multitude of other roles and challenges. It is a story that will resonate with future generations of servicemen and women.
 
MARTY SKOVLUND JR. is the editor in chief of Task & Purpose, a military news and culture publication. He is a former Army Ranger and an experienced conflict reporter who has reported on assignment from Afghanistan, Iraq, and Ukraine in addition to embedding with the U.S. military around the world.
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Marine Corps veteran and debut novelist John Milas sits down with the LitWar Podcast to discuss the power of the horror genre in telling the truth about the Global War on Terror, the experience of earning an MFA in creative writing, and the advice he would give his younger writer self.
 
John Milas enlisted in the US Marine Corps at age nineteen and subsequently deployed to the Helmand Province of Afghanistan in support of OEF 10.1. He was honorably discharged from active service in 2012. After his discharge, he earned both his BA and MFA in creative writing. He enjoys engaging with his local literary community by attending readings, hosting workshops at his hometown library, and judging creative writing contests, which he has done since 2015. He has also read submissions for literary magazines such as Sycamore Review and Ninth Letter and has completed various freelance assignments as a journalist and editor. He grew up in Illinois, where he currently reads, writes, and watches baseball.
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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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New York Times best-selling author Sebastian Junger sits down with the LitWar Podcast to discuss his thoughts on death, the healing power of having a stage with an audience that is willing to listen, and his new book, In My Time of Dying which comes out May 21, 2024. Preorder here!
 
Sebastian Junger is the New York Times bestselling author of Tribe, War, Freedom, A Death in Belmont, Fire, and The Perfect Storm, and codirector of the documentary film Restrepo, which was nominated for an Academy Award. He is also the winner of a Peabody Award and the National Magazine Award for Reporting.
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New York Times best-selling author Karl Marlantes sits down with the LitWar Podcast to discuss his new novel Cold Victory, as well as why he went to war, his experiences on coming home from war, and what kept him going on his thirty-five-year journey to publication of his first novel Matterhorn. 
Karl is graduated from Yale University and was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, before serving as a Marine in Vietnam, where he was awarded the Navy Cross, the Bronze Star, two Navy Commendation Medals for valor, two Purple Hearts, and ten air medals. He is the bestselling author of Matterhorn and What It Is Like to Go to War. He lives in rural Washington.
We are in the midst of our first Platoon Book Club Initiative in which we are funding and facilitating platoon-sized book club for active duty and reserve platoons in every branch of the military. Click here to learn more.

Best-selling author and photographer Levison Wood sits down with the LitWar Podcast to discuss the fall of Kabul, the troops who handled it, and the uncanny similarities to the British retreat from Kabul in 1842. Lev conducted a wide-range of interviews with those who were actually on the ground and experienced it firsthand to write his book with co-author Geraint Jones.
Levison is an elected Fellow of both the Royal Geographical Society and the Explorers Club. He is an ambassador and patron for a number of charities including UNICEF. When not abroad, he lives in London. 
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