Ben Fountain on his anti-war novel Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk

A wonderful interview with Ben Fountain on his anti-war novel Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk. Fountain really made me think about how our media manufactures consent and 
support for the war machine..

Celebrated by Fox News, a squad of Iraq war soldiers takes a victory tour to drum up support for the war that includes a Dallas Cowboys football game. Ben Fountain follows his hero, a poorly educated Texas boy, into the wilds of debased American celebrity. We discuss the difficulty of writing a novel composed from multiple kinds of "now" language: hip-hop, press-release-ese, sportscaster talk, black street language, Texan tall-talk.