Sebastian Junger

Donald H. Straszheim, vice chairman of Roth Capital Partners, a securities firm in Los Angeles, and Sebastian Junger, contributing writer to Vanity Fair and the author of The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea and more recently A Death in Belmont, on China's influence ...

Kurt Andersen and the writer Sebastian Junger talk about why our culture is drawn to the menace and beauty of natural disaster. 

Junger wrote The Perfect Storm, the best-selling nonfiction book about a Gloucester, Massachusetts fishing crew lost in an extraordinary North Atlantic hurricane. His most recent book, Fire, is ...