Evan Wright, a two-time National Magazine Award winner, is the author of Generation Kill.

"When people were killed, civilians especially, I realized I was the only person there who would write it down. I was frantic about getting names, and in the book there are a few Arabic names, some of the victims. Not that anyone cares. But I thought, 'At least somewhere there's a record of this.'"

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Wright on Longform

[3:45] Generation Kill (2004)

[10:00] "Scenes From My Life in Porn" (L.A. Weekly • Mar 2000)

[12:15] A.J. Liebling’s New Yorker archive

[14:15] "Big Red Son" (David Foster Wallace • Consider the Lobster • 1998) [pdf]

[16:30] Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace (D.T. Max • 2012)

[18:15] Hella Nation: Looking for Happy Meals in Kandahar, Rocking the Side Pipe,Wingnut's War Against the Gap, and Other Adventures with the Totally Lost Tribes of America (2009)

[28:00] "The Killer Elite" (Rolling Stone • Jul 2003)

[30:30] Longform Podcast #64: Gay Talese

[33:30] Wikipedia: Christopher Isherwhood

[39:30] Karl Taro Greenfield on Longform

[48:30] "Pat Dollard's War on Hollywood" (Vanity Fair • Mar 2007)

[57:00] American Desperado: My Life—From Mafia Soldier to Cocaine Cowboy to Secret Government Asset (with Jon Roberts • 2011)

[1:00:00] How to Get Away with Murder in America: Drug Lords, Dirty Pols, Obsessed Cops, and the Quiet Man Who Became the CIA's Master Killer (Kindle Single • 2012)

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