Reading from his short story collection, “Redeployment,” author and U.S. Marine Corps veteran Phil Klay takes readers to the front lines of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to understand what happened there and what happened to the soldiers who returned.
Klay, who served in Iraq’s Anbar Province from January 2007 to February 2008 as a public affairs officer, creates characters who struggle to make meaning out of chaos in stories interwoven with themes of brutality and faith, guilt and fear, helplessness and survival.
Redeployment won the National Book Award for Fiction. The author was shortlisted for the Frank O’Connor Prize and named a National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” honoree. He received the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation James Webb Award.
The Cultural Affairs Program hosts Klay on Thursday, Sept. 24 at 3 p.m. in the Bulmer Telecommunications Center Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public.
An NPR interview with Mr. Klay can be heard here.
Published: Mon, 14 Sep 2015 10:17:32 +0000 by m.zemantauski