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Who Owns A Story? The Writer Or The Person Who Lived It?

WORDS Posted: July 1, 2014 6:50 am

“Do I have the right to write about a firefight in Falluja, if I wasn’t there? Does it demonstrate respect and admiration for the soldiers, and show evidence of their importance in our culture? Or does it insult those who risked their lives, if I take literary possession of that experience?”

WORDS Published: 07.01.14

Read the story in The New York Times Published: 07.01.14

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