Matt Gallagher, Youngblood: A Novel (Atria Books, 2016)   Matt Gallagher, in a large sense, has paved the way for many of us who draw on our experiences in writing about Iraq and Afghanistan. It didn’t seem like “early on” back then, but in what are now considered the nascent stages of the Iraq war, … Continue reading Spinning Meaningless Piles of Knots into a Riveting Plot: A War Novel That is so Much More