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About Frani O'Toole

Frani O'Toole is a writer/researcher working at an architecture and urban planning firm based in Texas.

Frani O'Toole is a writer/researcher working at an architecture and urban planning firm based in Texas.

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Literary Studies April 2, 2021

Training for Catastrophe

Fictions of National Security after 9/11

Lindsay Thomas

Hosted by Frani O'Toole

In Training for Catastrophe: Fictions of National Security After 9/11 (University of Minnesota Press, 2021), author Lindsay Thomas studies the relationship between fiction and U.S. national security — specifically, the instrumentalization of fiction …