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Hey, Evan Wright, How'd You Parlay Your Rolling Stone Articles Into an HBO Miniseries?

This magazine writer tells us how going with his first instincts scored him a slot on HBO

By E.B. Boyd – July 9, 2008
In 2003 on the eve of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Rolling Stone reporter Evan Wright talked his way into a berth with the elite Marine unit tasked with leading one of the charges up to Baghdad. Wright spent the next two months with a 23-man platoon ...
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