A Good War Is Hard to Find The Art of

"Inspired by the recent Abu Ghraib photos, David Griffith journeys through the vast catalogue of violent and sexual images that have accumulated in our collective unconscious, meditating on books, music and films from Star Trek to Deliverance, through filters ranging from Sontag to Warhol; but Griffith in particular suggests that Flannery O'Connor - whose writings explored the most potent insights into the failures at the prison."--BOOK JACKET.

Dave Griffith is the author of A Good War is Hard to Find: The Art of Violence in America. His work has appeared in the Utne Reader, Paris Review Daily, Image, The Normal School, Creative Nonfiction, and Los Angeles Review of Books, among others. He is at work on a book titled Pyramid Scheme: Making Art and Being Broke in America. He lives in Michigan with his wife, the writer Jessica Mesman Griffith, and their two children.

Symphony No. 1 (in memoriam, Dresden, 1945)	p. 17
A good war is hard to find : Flannery O'Connor, Abu Ghraib, and the problem of American innocence	p. 27
Pictures of the floating world : on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, in three parts	p. 43
Some proximity to darkness	p. 59
Regarding the electric chair my wife's college boyfriend built in his house	p. 89
Prime directive	p. 121
City of lost souls	p. 143
Weavings of war (Erie, Pennsylvania, June 24, 2005)	p. 167
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A Good War Is Hard to Find The Art of Violence in America

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