In the early ’90s, Sebastian Junger was an aspiring fiction writer, living in Cape Cod and waiting tables to pay the bills. Then he decided to “actually do something real” and report on the war in Bosnia. It was, he says, “an accelerated journalism-school experience.” Junger has gone on to become one of the foremost American writers on the topic of war, particularly when it comes to conveying the experiences of U.S. combat veterans.
Sebastian Junger at Literary Arts in Portland, Oregon, June 4, 2014. Photo by Ethan E. Rocke