Steven Pressfield: A Man at Arms

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Jack Carr

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🗓️ 9 June 2021

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Steven Pressfield is a bestselling author, Hollywood screenwriter and Marine Corps veteran.

He's penned several bestselling novels including The Legend of Bagger Vance, Gates of Fire, Tides of War, The Virtues of War, The Afghan Campaign, and his latest, A Man at Arms, about mercenary soldier Telamon of Arcadia.

Steven has also written numerous non-fiction books including The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles, The Lion's Gate: On the Front Lines of the Six Day War, The Artist's Journey: The Wake of the Hero's Journey and the Lifelong Pursuit of Meaning, and others.

On the latest episode of Danger Close, Steven and Jack discuss his career, the craft of writing, A Man at Arms, and what it takes to tell great stories.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	This is the Danger Close Podcast, beyond the books with me, Jack Carr.
0:17.0	Welcome to the Danger Close Podcast, an Ironclad original presented by Six Hour.
0:21.4	My guest today is Stephen Pressfield.
0:23.7	Stephen Pressfield is the author of Gates of Fire, Legend of Bagger Vance, Afghan campaign
0:28.0	and a host of other books.
0:29.5	His latest novel is a man at arms.
0:32.8	And we didn't get into it as much as I wanted to on the podcast because he kept asking
0:36.4	me questions about my latest novel, about writing, about the Amazon series with Chris
0:40.7	Pratt.
0:41.7	So we had a great time, great conversation.
0:44.1	And he's also the author of a series of books on creativity.
0:48.3	You may have heard of the War of Arts, Turning Pro, Do the Work, Authentic Swing, Where
0:52.7	Ethos, Anyone Involved in any sort of creative endeavor, Read These Books.
0:59.5	So without further ado, my friend, the great Stephen Pressfield.
1:05.2	All right, Stephen Pressfield, thank you so much for jumping on the podcast.
1:11.1	I'm so excited to see you.
1:12.7	And especially just because it's a chance for us to catch up for about 45 minutes, which
1:16.5	is really my favorite part of this.
1:18.3	Great to see you.
1:19.5	We missed each other twice when you were here filming.
1:22.7	But so this will have to do for the time being until we can see each other in person.
1:26.9	That's right.
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