On September 15th, Pittsburgh’s Re:NEW Festival will be hosting an evening with #1 New York Times bestselling author Sebastian Junger, author of War, The Perfect Storm, Fire, and A Death in Belmont.
Together with Tim Hetherington, Junger directed the Academy Award-nominated film Restrepo, which won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance. He is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and has been awarded a National Magazine Award and an SAIS Novartis Prize for journalism. His latest book, TRIBE: On Homecoming & Belonging, is now available.
A book signing will follow Junger’s Re:NEW Festival talk. Additional books will be for sale at the event.
What comes to mind when you think of Pittsburgh?
THREE RIVERS, INDUSTRY, and the FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR
What books are on your nightstand?
HUCKLEBERRY FINN, DISGRACE, MARCUS AURELIUS’ ‘MEDITATIONS’, and OUR BELEAGUERED SPECIES (Elizabeth Crouch Zelman)
Is there a book you’d like to see made into a film?
SUTTREE (Cormac McCarthy) or FAR TORTUGA (Peter Matthiessen)
Who would you most want to share a plate of pierogis with?
PLENTY COUPS of the CROW NATION