Us marine deploying to the mediterranean. East africa in iraq, he grew up on military bases from the east coast of the United States to japan. He currently lives in new york city, but calls atlanta home. Please give a warm savannah. Welcome to jared alexander. Good morning. Wow, give me one sec here. Okay . First thanks for having me. I its been a hard year for facetoface interactions with books and her two years i suppose and just being here is a real honor. Actually, im was really happy to be invited and speak to you guys about my book and about some of the stuff that sort of influenced it. And thats kind of what i want to talk about actually is i i just when i thought about what i was going to come up here and talk about i kept thinking about other works and other works that sort of but maybe as a kid and as an adult sort of moved me into writing about war the way that i did and so i thought i took a little take a little time to do that. And i i guess first off i want to start by ta
Alexander has written for esquire Rolling Stone the nation narrative. I knew id get this one now narratively. And elsewhere he holds an mfa in literary reportage from the New York University Arthur L Carter school of journalism. From 1998 to 2006 he served as a us marine deploying to the mediterranean. East africa in iraq, he grew up on military bases from the east coast of the United States to japan. He currently lives in new york city, but calls atlanta home. Please give a warm savannah. Welcome to jared alexander. Good morning. Wow, give me one sec here. Okay . First thanks for having me. I its been a hard year for facetoface interactions with books and her two years i suppose and just being here is a real honor. Actually, im was really happy to be invited and speak to you guys about my book and about some of the stuff that sort of influenced it. And thats kind of what i want to talk about actually is i i just when i thought about what i was going to come up here and talk about i ke
Narratively. And elsewhere he holds an mfa in literary reportage from the New York University Arthur L Carter school of journalism. From 1998 to 2006 he served as a us marine deploying to the mediterranean. East africa in iraq, he grew up on military bases from the east coast of the United States to japan. He currently lives in new york city, but calls atlanta home. Please give a warm savannah. Welcome to jared alexander. Good morning. Wow, give me one sec here. Okay . First thanks for having me. I its been a hard year for facetoface interactions with books and her two years i suppose and just being here is a real honor. Actually, im was really happy to be invited and speak to you guys about my book and about some of the stuff that sort of influenced it. And thats kind of what i want to talk about actually is i i just when i thought about what i was going to come up here and talk about i kept thinking about other works and other works that sort of but maybe as a kid and as an adult sor
Jared w. Alexander is with us today courtesy of Bob Faircloth and tim and Fran Lindgren Jared Alexander has written for esquire Rolling Stone the nation narrative. I knew id get this one now narratively. And elsewhere he holds an mfa in literary reportage from the New York University Arthur L Carter school of journalism. From 1998 to 2006 he served as a us marine deploying to the mediterranean. East africa in iraq, he grew up on military bases from the east coast of the United States to japan. He currently lives in new york city, but calls atlanta home. Please give a warm savannah. Welcome to Jared Alexander. Good morning. Wow, give me one sec here. Okay . First thanks for having me. I its been a hard year for facetoface interactions with books and her two years i suppose and just being here is a real honor. Actually, im was really happy to be invited and speak to you guys about my book and about some of the stuff that sort of influenced it. And thats kind of what i want to talk about
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