Slate has partnered with Brooklyn Brewery and RISC to bring its hit war correspondent interview series to our readers. In this second installment, Steve Hindy, founder of Brooklyn Brewery and a former Associated Press foreign correspondent, sits down with Scott Anderson, veteran war correspondent and author of the book, Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East.
Anderson’s book on T. E. Lawrence was born from a painstaking process. In the clip above, he breaks down the arduous five-year journey that was his Lawrence biography—one that took him from musty archives in England to the comfort of a cabin in the Catskills.