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Matt Gallagher

American Author

Born: 1983

Accounts Afghanistan Catch-22 Games Veterans War

Related authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald Frederick Douglass Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Joyce Meyer Mark Twain Og Mandino Zig Ziglar

'Shortly Thereafter' chronicles all the aspects of an Afghanistan deployment, from the terrors of the unknown that await before leaving, to the perverse thrills and adrenaline rushes found in combat, to the return home to a land and a people now more foreign than the war itself was. Matt Gallagher

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I wanted to be a writer, but I kind of wanted to be a fiction writer someday, like 20 - 25 years down the line. I never thought I'd write a nonfiction memoir about Iraq. Matt Gallagher

Thought Down Kind Memoir Someday About Write Writer Never Like Nonfiction Line Years Iraq Fiction Wanted Fiction Writer

On a bigger level, 9/11 was a crystallizing moment for my generation... the bubble popped. We were like, 'Whoa, this is what the real world is like; it's not all fun and games.' Matt Gallagher

Generation World Whoa My Generation Bubble Like Real Were The Real World Bigger Real World Games Moment Fun Level

The American war-writing tradition is a proud one and booming in this era of the Global War on Terror - at least in the nonfiction realm. Hundreds of memoirs and press accounts from Iraq and Afghanistan have been published since 9/11. Matt Gallagher

There is a lot of evidence to back up the assertion that war fiction takes time. Many all-time classics of the genre, from Erich Maria Remarque's 'All Quiet on the Western Front' to Joseph Heller's 'Catch-22' to Tim O'Brien's 'The Things They Carried,' took over a decade to pen. Matt Gallagher

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Warrior Writer workshops have sprung up across the country, and of the ones I've attended and participated in, most contain at least one or two star writers. Matt Gallagher

Country Warrior At Least One One Or Two Writer Writers Attended Contain Most Least Sprung Up Across Workshops Star Two

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