The Complexity of War feat. Drew Pham
Added 2019-01-14 19:33:28 +0000 UTCThis week, Nate speaks with Army veteran and writer Drew Pham (@Drewspeak). Drew is an MFA candidate in fiction at Brooklyn College, a prolific essay writer in venues like the War Horse and the Wrath Bearing Tree (where he's an editor), and a mainstay of the veteran writer community in New York City.
In this interview, Drew talks about his family's history in Vietnam and their relationship to the war, Trump's targeting of Vietnamese asylees and refugees, why he loves Tim O'Brien's work but couldn't see himself in any characters, MDMA-assisted psychotherapy and its promise for people with PTSD, and quite a bit more.
Here's Drew's essay "How to Lose a War" which appeared on the War Horse: https://www.thewarhorse.org/our-stories/how-to-lose-a-war/
If you want to read Drew's work on the Wrath-Bearing Tree, you can access it here: https://www.wrath-bearingtree.com/author/drew-pham/
