Adrian Bonenberger
Adrian Bonenberger graduated from Yale University in 2002 with a B.A. in English before joining the United States Army. During seven years of active-duty service he spent twenty five months in Afghanistan on two deployments, where he was valorously decorated for bravery in combat. His war memoirs, "Afghan Post," were published by The Head and The Hand Press January 2015. He has published essays on military-themed policy issues for the New York Times, Washington Post, Foreign Policy, Commonweal Magazine, Forbes Magazine, The New Republic, and Deadspin's Concourse, among others. He took his MS in Journalism from Columbia, and his MFA in Creative Writing at SUNY Stony Brook Southampton.
There Are No War Heroes: A Veteran's Review Of <em>American Sniper</em>
American Sniper will likely be the most controversial and divisive movie of 2015, and it's mid-January. From concerns over the baldly anti-Muslim social-media rants it has inspired to titular real-life protagonist Chris Kyle's debatable status as a hero to his notorious unreliability as a non-fict...