Stephen Hunter, Pulitzer Prize Winning Author of 'The Bullet Garden'
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🗓️ 4 February 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Stephen Hunter is the film critic of the Washington Post, a Pulitzer Prize winner, and the author behind Shooter. He talks about his latest book The Bullet Garden which features Earl Swagger undertaking a top-secret secret mission in the deadly German sniper-controlled hills of Normandy.
From creating a symphony of action, mystery, and intrigue, Stephen takes us through the creative process of his book and how Carlos Hathcock, an American sniper credited with 93 kills in WW2, is the inspiration behind Earl's character.
He gives an inside look into working with publishers and newsrooms and how getting historical details accurately is a constant effort in effective storytelling. Rad and Stephen also talk about their shared passion for airsoft and how these guns provide an accessible experience with otherwise exotic and expensive weapons.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to software, radio, special operations, military news, and straight talk with the guys in the community. |
| 0:30.0 | Hey everybody, welcome back to a wonderful episode of Soft Rep Radio. I am your host and I have a special guest today. |
| 0:44.0 | I have the author of the bullet garden, Stephen Hunter, Pulitzer Prize winner in 2003. |
| 0:52.0 | Film Critics for the Washington Post has submitted several archives on criticisms of film |
| 0:59.0 | and television and I have him here right now and I also want to say you're the father of the movie Shooter, this Bob Lee Swagger story. |
| 1:08.0 | That's correct. |
| 1:09.0 | Welcome to the show, Stephen. |
| 1:10.0 | Thank you. |
| 1:11.0 | Thank you very much. |
| 1:12.0 | And I'm so pleased to read that you're interested in the book and my work. |
| 1:16.0 | Yeah, I am interested in it. |
| 1:18.0 | First of all, I'm a huge fan of the show Shooter, the movie. |
| 1:22.0 | Do you remember the TV show? |
| 1:24.0 | No, I'm actually talking about the movie and the show. |
| 1:28.0 | Both of them actually have a really cool appeal to them. |
| 1:32.0 | The movie though that I think a lot of my listeners have probably seen already with Mark Wahlberg and Danny Glover. |
| 1:37.0 | What was that like to see your thoughts put on the paper come to a movie? |
| 1:43.0 | That's my question. |
| 1:44.0 | Yes, well, the answer is that it was like seeing your dream in someone else's head in the sense that everything was familiar but wrong. |
| 1:55.0 | In other words, I had a certain ideal projection of the action. |
| 1:59.0 | And in my brain, the camera was to the left and in Antoine Fook was brain, it was to the right. |
| 2:07.0 | And so what I saw was incredibly familiar and felt real and vivid to me. |
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