Brian Castner

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Brian Castner is a nonfiction writer, former Explosive Ordnance Disposal officer, and veteran of the Iraq War. He is the bestselling author of All the Ways We Kill and Die, and the war memoir The Long Walk, which was adapted into an opera and named an Amazon Best Book for 2012. A contributing writer to VICE, his work has also appeared in the New York Times, Wired, Foreign Policy, Buzzfeed, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and on National Public Radio. His next project, a co-edited collection of short stories, is titled The Road Ahead, and will be published in January of 2017.