Benjamin Busch, son of the intellectual novelist Frederick Busch and a mother who gardened with meticulous aesthetic rules, wanted to be a warrior when he grew up. He considered himself in training ...

As a child, Benjamin Busch was not allowed to have a gun. His parents had been Vietnam War protesters, “and they had no intention of raising a soldier.” Both were liberal intellectuals: his mother, a ...

In his memoir "Dust to Dust" (Ecco, 320 pp., $25.99), artist and filmmaker Benjamin Busch chronicles his childhood in upstate New York, his experiences as a Marine in the Iraq War and the deaths of ...

Benjamin Busch, who as a U.S. Marine Corps infantry officer served two combat tours in Iraq, was an actor on “Homicide” and”The Wire,” has written a memoir. He’ll speak and sign copies of “Dust to ...

(Ecco, hardcover), writes with the precision of a stonemason, the courage of a combat veteran, and the inquisitiveness of an artist, which makes sense, because he is all of those things. Busch is a ...

This Veterans Day, All Things Considered asks two veterans and writers to tell a story about their experiences in the military. Benjamin Busch reflects on his grandfather's service during World War II ...

Benjamin Busch’s “Dust to Dust” is a remarkable book — part military memoir, part childhood reminiscence, and also an effort to explain his relationship with his father, the celebrated novelist ...

Benjamin Busch, an acclaimed writer, actor and artist who served as a commanding officer in the United States Marine Corps, will visit the Waukegan Public Library on Thursday, Sept. 17, and Friday, ...

Benjamin Busch discusses his debut memoir, “Dust to Dust,” at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 27, at Minneapolis Central Library, 300 Nicollet Mall. The free program concludes Friends of the Hennepin County ...

Benjamin Busch, a Northern Michigan actor/writer has had two tours in Iraq, a stint on The Wire, a book, a film, a farm, and continues to have a burning desire to live, to do, to be. Aaron Brooks ...