Weekend Giveaway: BRING OUT THE DOG by Will Mackin

This giveaway is sponsored by Will Mackin’s Bring Out the Dog, out from Random House.

“A near-miraculous, brilliant debut.”—George Saunders

The eleven stories in Will Mackin’s mesmerizing debut collection draw from his many deployments with a special operations task force in Iraq and Afghanistan. They began as notes he jotted on the inside of his forearm in grease pencil and, later, as bullet points on the torn-off flap of an MRE kit.  Years later, he used those journals to write this book. Told without a trace of false bravado and with a keen sense of the absurd, Bring Out the Dog manages to capture the tragedy and heroism, the degradation and exultation, in the smallest details of war.