A Piece from “The 14 Ounce Pound”

The late Nat Finkelstein contributed photographs and prose to “First” in the 00’s. He’s best known for his 60s pictures of Warhol’s Factory, but his life was bigger than his images. This piece, “Kandahar, 1971”, about his time in Afghanistan is from his memoir, “The 14 Ounce Pound.” (You can read another chapter here.) Nat knew this hunk of his past was pretty far gone, but he wondered if Afghanistan has “changed much in the past 1200 years.” 

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Flayed

When this piece was first published in First, Kurt Vonnegut responded: “Where do you find all these magical writers? Nat Finkelstein’s harrowing piece would have been relevant at any time.”

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