Arts of War
Dale Dye Continues to Gain Accolades
August 14, 2019
Retired Marine Capt. Dale Dye, who received the VVA Excellence in the Arts Award at the 1997 National Convention in Kansas City for all but re-inventing the art of military technology advising in Hollywood, received…
Wes Studi to Receive Honorary Oscar
July 10, 2019
Wes Studi, the celebrated American Indian actor and Vietnam War veteran best known for his powerful work in Dancing with Wolves and Last of the Mohicans, will receive an honorary Oscar from the Academy of Motion Picture…
Karl Marlantes’ New Novel
July 1, 2019
Karl Marlantes, the former Marine and the author of the critically acclaimed, best-selling 2010 Vietnam War novel Matterhorn, will publish his second novel, Deep River, tomorrow, July 2, 2019. Marlantes---who served for a year as a…
Author Query: ISO Camp Reasoner Recon Marines
June 15, 2019
The author Michael Coffino is working with a group of Marines on a book about their reconnaissance experiences in the Vietnam War out of Camp Reasoner. They would like to include stories and perspectives from other…
Vietnam War Play Staged Reading in N.J. June 15
June 12, 2019
Paul Drew, the author of a memoir---After the Storm: A Vietnam Veteran's Reflections---and a Vietnam War novel, Jenny 4, will be doing a staged reading of a one-act play he wrote based on the novel,…
Mini Doc on the ‘Faces of the American Dead in Vietnam’ LIFE Magazine issue
May 29, 2019
Jef Connor, a former professor at Harvard and Georgetown, spend four years working on a documentary to memorialize the 242 U.S. service members who lost their lives in the Vietnam War in one week in…
‘Bosch’ Season Five is Streaming
April 24, 2019
The fifth season of the detective/thriller series Bosch started streaming on Amazon Prime Video last week. Bosch is based on the twenty-one best-selling and brilliant Harry Bosch novels written by Michael Connelly, starting with The Black Echo…
Tim O’Brien on the Vietnam War and Season III of ‘This is Us’
March 27, 2019
Last summer we reported on the fact that the award-winning novelist Tim (The Things They Carried) O'Brien, was hired to consult on the upcoming third season of the popular NBC-TV family drama, This is Us. That…
‘Do Not Stop,’ an In-Country Vietnam War Short Story in ‘The New Yorker’
March 18, 2019
Yes, that is correct. For the first time in living memory (sort of), the august New Yorker magazine in the January 21 issue ran an in-country Vietnam War short story. The good news is that…
ISO POW/MIA Bracelet Wearers
March 4, 2019
Writer/producer Peggy Kennedy and director Roger Cluxton are putting together a documentary film called "MIA: Stories of the Vietnam War Bracelet." "The MIA-POW Vietnam War bracelet was an idea started by two college students in…