Evan Wright
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Cleveland, Ohio.
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Herodotus, Mark Twain, Evelyn Waugh, Christopher Isherwood, Graham Greene, A. J. Liebling, Elmore Leonard, Charles Bukowski
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April 2009
about this author
That "author's photo" of me is an illustration done by my friend Hawk Krall, an awesome artist from Philly.
I had an odd path to writing which I describe in the first chapter of Hella Nation.
I am best known for Generation Kill, the book and then the mini-series on HBO for which I worked with Wire creator David Simon.
I believe in the supreme, amazing power of books and words, especially those written on paper. I love movies and co-wrote the mini series version of Generation Kill, but books are more vivid to me than films. Books offer a transformative experience, more often than films do.
I occasionally write book reviews for the Los Angeles Times, and in these I am critical. On this...more
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Generation Kill by Evan Wright (Goodreads author) avg rating 4.06 — 774 ratings — published 2004 12 editions |
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Hella Nation: Looking for Happy Meals in Kandahar, Rocking the Side Pipe, Wingnut's WarAgainst the GAP, and Other Adventures with the Totally Lost Tribes of America by Evan Wright (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.73 — 49 ratings — published 2009 |
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Spring Broke by Nathaniel Welch, Steve Appleford Evan Wright (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.25 — 4 ratings — published 2004 |
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Evan Wright said "yes" to attending the event: Spread the Word.
date: May 31, 2009 06:30PM location: The Hotel Cafe, 1623 1/2 N. Cahuenga Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, The United States description: reading + music featuring Evan Wright Hella Nation, Andrea Gibson Pole Dancing To Gospel Hymns, Jerry Stahl Pain Killers, Susan Hayden Cat Stevens Saved my Life | |||
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"'Hey, it's ten in the morning!' says Person, yelling at two farmers dressed in robes in the distance. 'Don't you think you ought to change out of your pajamas?'"
— Evan Wright (Generation Kill)
— Evan Wright (Generation Kill)
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"We're like America's little pit bull. They beat it, starve it, mistreat it, and once in a while they let it out to attack somebody."
— Evan Wright (Generation Kill)
— Evan Wright (Generation Kill)
"They kill hundreds of people, those pilots. I would have loved to have flown the plane that dropped the bomb on Japan. A couple of dudes killed hundreds of thousands. That f****** rules! Yeah!"
— Evan Wright (Generation Kill)
— Evan Wright (Generation Kill)
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Hawk Krall mostly reminds me of Hawk Krall. I love his work and hope to work with him sometime on a project.
Mr. Wright, I like the illustration of you and found a link to illustrator Hawk Krall of you at http://www.hawkkrall.net/xnews43.htmlHawk Krall reminds me of the work of R. Crumb. I would like to know if you follow any published works by artists who make comic or the novel form manga popularized by a growing number of artists in the West. I did not like comics until I saw the documentary Crumb and the movie Ghost World and I started to "get it." I think it would be cool to have a comic or mange version of Generation Kill illustrated by Hawk Krall whose work I found on his website after did a little sleuthing: http://www.hawkkrall.net/ I don't see how any of the stories could be comix versions of Hella Nation, except maybe the "Mad Dogs and Lawyers" article, illustrated by Paul Schneider which would be too sick I imagine.
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