Podcast appearances and mentions of will mackin

Aerial antics, magic tricks, and unwelcome rescue missions. In this hour, stories of momentous decisions, massive undertakings, and opportunities with no second chances. This episode is hosted by Catherine Burns. The Moth Radio Hour is produced by The Moth and Jay Allison of Atlantic Public Media. Storytellers: In an attempt to be Maverick (from Top Gun), Will Mackin goes to Navy Flight School. Siegfried Tieber gets hooked on magic. Samantha Mathis goes on a mission to bring her father home.

Will Mackin joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Falls,” by George Saunders, which was published in The New Yorker in 1996. Mackin's first book, “Bring Out the Dog,” was published in 2018 and won the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection.

Will Mackin is a 23-year veteran of the US Navy. He has served in Iraq and Afghanistan, first as a navigator aboard a carrier-based jet, then as a joint terminal attack controller attached to a SEAL team. His first book, Bring Out the Dog (Random House, 2018), won the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection. During his fellowship, Mackin is working on “Animals,” a collection of short stories based on his experiences as a special operations soldier in Iraq and Afghanistan. Mackin’s writing has appeared in the Atlantic, GQ, the New York Times Magazine, the New Yorker, and Tin House. His short story “Kattekoppen” was included in The Best American Short Stories 2014 (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014), and his essay about being an extra on Breaking Bad, published in GQ, was nominated for an American Society of Magazine Editors Ellie Award. His military decorations include the Bronze Star Medal, the Joint Service Commendation Medal (with valor), the Combat Action Ribbon, and five Strike/Flight Air Medals. In this session, we discussed his experience and encounters with animals during missions to Iraq and Afghanistan. We discussed how animals might have impacted these missions as well as the humanitarian side of encountering animals in these environments. We also had a discussion on the ethics of live tissue training. This discussion spanned the thoughts on the need for this training as well as potential alternatives. We also discussed how to ethically engage in this training with respect to the animal. We ended our discussion by talking about Will’s use of art, writing and poetry to synthesize his war-time experience. More about Will: https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/people/will-mackin https://www.amazon.com/Bring-Out-Dog-Will-Mackin/dp/0812995643 https://chireviewofbooks.com/2018/03/09/bring-out-the-dog-will-mackin-review/

Last week, the House held hearings on gun violence, the first in eight years. In the 2018 elections, gun-reform groups outspent the N.R.A.—which appears to be in financial trouble. After years of greatly expanded gun rights, is the tide turning on gun reform? David Remnick talks with Lucy McBath, who ran for Congress as a gun reformer and won in the conservative district once represented by Newt Gingrich. We’ll hear from the reporter Mike Spies, the criminal-justice professor April Zeoli, the Navy veteran Will Mackin, and the gun-violence survivor Sarah Engle.

This week, the House held hearings on gun violence, the first in eight years. In the 2018 elections, gun-reform groups outspent the N.R.A.—which appears to be in financial trouble. After years of greatly expanded gun rights, is the tide turning on gun reform? In this special episode, David Remnick talks with Lucy McBath, who ran for Congress as a gun reformer and won in the conservative district once represented by Newt Gingrich. We’ll hear from the reporter Mike Spies, the criminal-justice professor April Zeoli, the Navy veteran Will Mackin, and the gun-violence survivor Sarah Engle. 

In his book Bring Out The Dog, Will Mackin writes a fictional account of his time with Navy Special Operations as a Joint Terminal Air Controller - 'a remarkable portrait of the absurdity and poetry that define life in the most elite, Clandestine circles of modern warfare.' Will's stories demonstrates the role of intuition, empathy and imagination into the enemies movements and psyche. A 24 year Navy veteran, Will shares his reentry into civilian life. Find his work at wmackin.com Get bonus content on Patreon Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Will Mackin, author of Bring Out The Dog. His first novel published by Random House in March. Will is a 23 year veteran of the U.S. Navy and served in both Iraq and Afghanistan. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, GQ, NYT Magazine and Tin House and has been anthologized in The Best Short Stories of 2014. Bring Out The Dog allows us to peer through the lens of someone who was there and to also comprehend the sense of war as it veers from the autobiographical to the fictional.

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Will Mackin, author of Bring Out The Dog. His first novel published by Random House in March. Will is a 23 year veteran of the U.S. Navy and served in both Iraq and Afghanistan. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, GQ, NYT Magazine and Tin House and has been anthologized in The Best Short Stories of 2014. Bring Out The Dog allows us to peer through the lens of someone who was there and to also comprehend the sense of war as it veers from the autobiographical to the fictional.

Will Mackin is a U.S. Navy veteran who served with a SEAL team in Iraq and Afghanistan. His debut book is Bring Out the Dog. “I wanted to write nonfiction and I started writing nonfiction. And the reason I did that was — first of all, I felt all the people did all the hard work, and who was I to take liberties? And the second reason was, I just felt an obligation to the men and women who I served with not to misrepresent them, or what they’d been through, or what it had meant to them, or how they felt about it. I kept piling these requirements on to myself: Well, if I present this particular event in this light, this guy’s going to get his feelings hurt. Or, I don’t know how this guy’s family will feel about me talking about this. And it became debilitating, all those restrictions, I kind of kept layering on myself. I was talking to George Saunders at one point about this, and I was like, ‘I don’t know if this book is going to happen. I’m just stuck’ And he pointed out, ‘You’re putting all these restrictions on yourself because it puts this perfect book off in the never-to-reach future. If you remove those and start fictionalizing things and getting at it a different way, maybe it’ll work for you.’” Thanks to MailChimp and Breach for sponsoring this week's episode. @mohammedsradio willmackin.com [01:35] Bring Out the Dog (Random House • 2018) [47:10] "Crossing the River No Name" (The New Yorker • June 2017) [47:40] Red Cavalry (Isaac Babel • Pushkin Collection • 2015) [47:45] "Crossing the River Zbrucz" (Isaac Babel • Pushkin Collection • 2015)

Brad Listi talks with Will Mackin, author of the story collection BRING OUT THE DOG, available from Random House. Mackin is a veteran of the U.S. Navy His work has appeared in The New Yorker, GQ, and The New York Times Magazine. His story “Kattekoppen” was selected by Jennifer Egan for inclusion in The Best American Short Stories 2014, and his essay about being an extra on Breaking Bad, published in GQ, was nominated for an American Society of Magazine Editors “Ellie” award. He lives in New  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty discusses The Hidden Life of Trees, The People in the Trees, The Wild Trees, and more great older books. This week's episode was sponsored by Bring Out the Dog: Stories by Will Mackin.

Will Mackin reads his story "The Lost Troop,” from the November 27th, 2017, issue of the magazine. Mackin, who retired from the Navy in 2014, will publish his first story collection, "Bring Out the Dog," in March.

Will Mackin reads his story from the June 5 & 12, 2017, issue of the magazine. Mackin, who retired from the Navy in 2014, will publish his first story collection, “Bring Out the Dog,” next year.