UNFINISHED WARS

"This past February, just after finishing his fourth stint in Iraq for The New Yorker, George Packer moved into a cabin he shares in western Massachusetts. He had forty-four notebooks and a pile of interview transcripts. When he emerged in April, he had written a 160,000-word manuscript.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux will publish The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq in October. (It has been rushed through production to keep pace with the dozen other Iraq books that will appear this fall.) In his Brooklyn neighborhood in mid-June, Packer seems slightly manic, as if he’s still coasting on the energy that carried him through the book’s composition. He has a bland, boyish face and disarmingly gentle eyes, which probably serve him well as a reporter. It can take several minutes to realize how much skepticism and sheer ferocity he brings to a conversation".

Entrevista conduzida por David Glenn, na Columbia Journalism Review, que nos chama a atenção para um livro a ser lançado em Outubro, nos Estados Unidos, escrito por alguêm que viveu a experiência do Iraque, e que escreve sobre isso na primeira pessoa.

A não perder, a entrevista e o livro !