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Salam Pax Worked For Me (War)

More on Salam Pax, the blogger from Baghdad who is a 29-year-old architect. Salam shares one thing with me---we both love The New Yorker magazine, which I consider to have some of the best writing in America.

Salam Pax Is Real: How do I know Baghdad's famous blogger exists? He worked for me (Slate):

"His latest post mentioned an afternoon he spent at the Hamra Hotel pool, reading a borrowed copy of The New Yorker. I laughed out loud. He then mentioned an escapade in which he helped deliver 24 pizzas to American soldiers. I howled. Salam Pax, the most famous and most mysterious blogger in the world, was my interpreter. The New Yorker he had been reading—mine. Poolside at the Hamra—with me. The 24 pizzas—we had taken them to a unit of 82nd Airborne soldiers I was writing about."