· In his most recent novel Empire City, Iraq War veteran and author, Matt Gallagher, answers a question that has circulated in the barracks and across many a dinner table, “What if the U.S. won the Vietnam War full WWII unconditional surrender style?” Gallagher’s novel, set half a century in the future from a North Vietnam surrender and occupation, explores an American society transformed Author: Chase Millsap. · The novel Empire City by alumnus Matt Gallagher ’13 is available for pre-order at Bookshop, an online bookstore that supports local, independent bookstores. Pre-orders begin shipping on April Empire City takes place thirty years after the United States’ “great triumph” in Vietnam. The summary on the website reads, “The United States has again become mired in an endless foreign . · Both books achieved critical and commercial success. His latest book is “Empire City” (Atria, ), a novel set in an alternate United States that shares much in common with present-day America. I spoke to the author by telephone about his books, inspiration, and what he .
Matt Gallagher is the author of the novels Empire City and Youngblood, a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Esquire, The Paris Review and Wired, among other places. Former U.S. Army captain Matt Gallagher is the author of the novel Youngblood, published in February by Atria and a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. He's also the author of the Iraq memoir Kaboom and coeditor of, and contributor to, the short fiction collection Fire Forget: Short Stories from the Long War. Empire City Matt Gallagher. Atria, $27 (p) ISBN Buy this book. Gallagher's ambitious but flawed second novel.
The novel Empire City by alumnus Matt Gallagher ’13 is available for pre-order at Bookshop, an online bookstore that supports local, independent bookstores. Pre-orders begin shipping on April Empire City takes place thirty years after the United States’ “great triumph” in Vietnam. The summary on the website reads, “The United States has again become mired in an endless foreign war overseas. Empire City - Matt Gallagher. CHAPTER 1. DEFY. Sleepy and half-drunk, Sebastian Rios tried to reason with the message carved into the wall of the subway tunnel. He. In his most recent novel Empire City, Iraq War veteran and author, Matt Gallagher, answers a question that has circulated in the barracks and across many a dinner table, “What if the U.S. won the Vietnam War full WWII unconditional surrender style?” Gallagher’s novel, set half a century in the future from a North Vietnam surrender and occupation, explores an American society transformed by the Vietnam experience into an empire that would rival Rome or the colonial British.
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