Tag: Coe Douglas

  • “The Bullet in My Brain.” a literary enquiry by Coe Douglas for Bad Survivalist

    “The Bullet in My Brain.” a literary enquiry by Coe Douglas for Bad Survivalist

    The Bullet in My Brain Moments before the bullet that tore through his brain was fired, Anders was lost in a fit of laughter brought on by the surly bank robber’s use of the word capiche. As the narrator in Tobias Wolff’s short story “Bullet in the Brain” explained: He covered his mouth with both…

  • Friday Was the Bomb: An Interview with Nathan Deuel

    Friday Was the Bomb: An Interview with Nathan Deuel

    Nathan Deuel’s new book Friday Was the Bomb: Five Years in the Middle East (Dzanc Books) is a memoir about raising his young daughter in the Middle East—living in Riyadh, Istanbul, and then Beirut—while his wife, Kelly McEvers, worked throughout the region as a war correspondent and eventually NPR’s Baghdad Bureau chief. Amid the chaos…