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Christopher Lynn Hedges is an American journalist, author, and war correspondent specializing in American and Middle Eastern politics and societies.... His most recent book is The World As It Is . Hedges is also known as the best-selling author of War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning , which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. A quotation from the book was used as the opening title quotation in the film The Hurt Locker . The quotation reads: "The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug." Chris Hedges is currently a senior fellow at The Nation Institute in New York City. He spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. He has reported from more than fifty countries, and has worked for The Christian Science Monitor, National Public Radio, The Dallas Morning News, and The New York Times, where he was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years . In 2002, Hedges was part of the team of reporters at The New York Times awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the paper's coverage of global terrorism.
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Spencer Reece is a poet who lives in Juno Beach, Florida. He is a graduate of Wesleyan University, he received a M.A. from the University of York ,... and a M.T.S. from the Harvard Divinity School. At Wesleyan, Spencer took a class in writing verse with Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Annie Dillard , whom he describes as "an early encourager," along with James Merrill, the Stonington poet with whom Spencer shared a correspondence. His 2004 book The Clerk’s Tale, was published by Houghton Mifflin Company . The Clerk's Tale was the winner of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference Bakeless Prize and was judged by former U.S. poet laureate Louise Glück. The title poem describes a day in the life at a store in the Mall of America; Reece had worked for many years as a sales associate at Brooks Brothers. His work has appeared in Boulevard, The New Yorker and The American Poetry Review.
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