![]() ![]() It wasn’t for political or moral reasons that I stayed away but a fear of being swallowed up. Avoided addressing it from my own perspective at least, though I did go on to a brief jaunt as a professional war reporter. It’s my personal contribution to war literature. T he anthology includes one of my own short stories. It was published not long after I returned from Afghanistan. Together, we edited an anthology of short fiction: Fire and Forget: Short Stories From the Long War. My career as a writer really began not long after returning from Iraq, when I saw that NYU was holding a free writing workshop for veterans near my apartment in Greenwich Village and, on a whim, decided to go. It makes no difference whether I try to evade it still, I play out a recurring return. ![]() ![]() ![]() It doesn’t matter that I’ve never been especially drawn to war literature as a genre-not before my wars or after. No matter how much time has passed it happens inevitably that I feel a tap on the shoulder and something pulls me back towards war. This week for the LABA Journal, Jacob Siegel, writer and combat veteran, reflects on the books that inspired him. ![]()
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