Sebastien Junger on Disaster
Kurt Andersen and the writer Sebastian Junger talk about why our culture is drawn to the menace and beauty of natural disaster.
Junger wrote The Perfect Storm, the best-selling nonfiction book about a Gloucester, Massachusetts fishing crew lost in an extraordinary North Atlantic hurricane. His most recent book, Fire, is a collection of stories from various dangerous journalism assignments, ranging from battle in Afghanistan to fire fighting in the American northwest.
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