David Halberstam on Poetry, Bush, and Baseball

New York Magazine has an interview up with David Halberstam, who died in a car crash over the weekend.  Halberstam was a Pulitizer Prize winning journalist and author.  He began is career covering the Vietnam War for the New York Times.  He later went on to sports journalism in his books The Breaks of the Game and Playing for Keeps.

The interview is from the annual Poetry & the Creative Mind benefit in Menlo Park, California, which rasies money for National Poetry Month.

Link to David Halberstam on Poetry, Bush, and Baseball – New York Magazine

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