He tells stories of his firefighting experiences, including ones with the late Staff Sergeant Rios, who becomes the central mystery of this novel. On the other side, betting on the scorpion killing the camel spider in less time, is aggressive Staff Sergeant Daniel Chambers, also new to the platoon but not to combat. He's new to his rank, and spends the beginning of the book analyzing his leadership steps, unsure of himself. On one side, betting $100 on the camel spider lasting two minutes in the fight, is Lieutenant Jack Porter, in charge of Hotspur platoon of the Twenty-Fifth Infantry, based out of Hawaii.
He lives with his wife and son in Brooklyn and works as a writing instructor at Words After War, a literary nonprofit devoted to bringing veterans and civilians together to study conflict literature.Youngblood is a startling story about the moral complexities of war.Įarly in Youngblood, a novel by Iraq War veteran Matt Gallagher, a prizefight is waged between a camel spider and a scorpion in an Army outpost in Ashuriyah, Iraq, while the military is making preparations to withdraw from the country. Petraeus.Ī graduate of Wake Forest University, Matt also holds an MFA in fiction from Columbia University. Among other media, he's appeared on CBS News Sunday Morning and NPR's The Diane Rehm Show, and was interviewed at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan by retired general David H. In January 2017, Senator Elizabeth Warren read Matt's Boston Globe op-ed "Trump Rejects the Muslims Who Helped Us" on the U.S.
In 2015, Gallagher was featured in Vanity Fair as one of the voices of a new generation of American war literature. 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. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Esquire, The Paris Review and Wired, among other places. Among other media, he's appeared on CBS News Sunday Morning and NPR's The Diane Rehm Show, and Matt Gallagher is the author of the novels Empire City and Youngblood, a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize.
Matt Gallagher is the author of the novels Empire City and Youngblood, a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize.
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