Author, actor, artist, and film director Benjamin Busch opened himself up for Mittenlit.com answering some very personal questions about his life and work. Tonight, Benjamin kicks off a book tour for his memoir “Dust to Dust” that will take him to 50 states at Nicola’s Books in Ann Arbor Michigan. Tomorrow he will be in Okemos Michigan for a 7 p.m. event at Schulers Books in Meridian Mall.
I wrote about his book in a recent Mittenlit.com post and Benjaming wrote with deep feeling about the recent tragedy in Afghanistan on the Daily Beast. In addition an interview in the Detroit Free Press this past Sunday provides additional insight into the man, the artist, the father and the author.
Your publisher has compared your writing to Tim O’Brien’s National Book Award winning book “the Things They Carried”. Why did you decide to write a memoir rather than a fictionalized look at your life and time in the service which O’Brien did?
Everything in this book requires complete trust. It is my perspective,
