Afghan Quote by George Packer

I am reading "The Yellow Birds" by Kevin Powers and "Redeployment" by Phil Klay . Both Powers and Klay are Iraq War vets. Klay's…

— George Packer

American fiction is good. It would be nice if somebody read it.

— Gary Shteyngart

One of the nice things about 'The New Yorker' is they let you write stories that sometimes end up almost half a book.

— David Grann

Many years from now when your children ask what New York City was like just after 9/11, this will be the book you give…

— Lee Child

Well, I'm reading about the battle of New Orleans right now. I've got an eclectic reading list.

— George W. Bush

I've read a lot of war writing, even World War I writing, the British war poetry of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves's…

— George Packer

'The New Yorker's fiction podcast I like a lot, where they have authors pick short stories by other authors that appeared in 'The New…

— Gillian Jacobs

“The great novel of twentieth-century New York might be the Daily News.”

— Pete Hamill

I read a lot of war literature.

— Aaron Stanford

“It may not be the "Great American Novel" they talk about, because its scope is not broad enough to take in all of America,…

— Clyde Brion Davis

I read a lot of short fiction, like Kurt Vonnegut and Raymond Carver and Wells Tower.

— Lorde

Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.

— John Irving