George Packer Quotes About Literature
-
Politics should be, you know, as exciting as literature, as exciting film.
→ -
The literature of the Spanish Civil War is also important to me. Above all George Orwell's "Homage to Catalonia" as well as the writing of John Dos Passos and Ernest Hemingway. They worked on a film together in Spain during that war, which ended their friendship.
→ -
Since I was a kid. I had this series by Ballantine Books about the history of World Wars I and II. In my 20s, it was the Vietnam War literature of novelists like Tim O'Brien, Philip Caputo, and Tobias Wolff, and then nonfiction such as "A Bright Shining Lie" by Neil Sheehan and "The Best and Brightest" by David Halberstam . Those are the two best histories of Vietnam.
→
Related Authors
-
Lawrence Wright Author -
John Dos Passos Novelist -
David Brooks Commentator -
Alex Gibney Film director -
Jonathan Franzen Novelist -
David Remnick Journalist -
George Orwell Novelist -
Charles Ferguson Director -
Evan Osnos Journalist -
Richard Holbrooke Diplomat -
Rachel Kushner Writer -
Peter Thiel Entrepreneur -
George Saunders Writer -
James McBride Writer -
Christopher Hitchens Author -
Jill Lepore Professor -
Cynthia Kadohata Writer -
Alice McDermott Writer -
Philip Gourevitch Author -
Peter Beinart Editor