April 3, 2012
Our friends at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund in Washington, D.C., are working on a book project in honor of the 30th anniversary of the dedication of The Wall this fall. The book will include photos taken…
March 14, 2012
In a wide-ranging interview on the website The Browser, Martin Bell (above ), the long-time BBC war correspondent who has covered more than a dozen conflicts, including the American war in Vietnam, discusses five…
November 17, 2011
Thanhha Lai, who was born in Vietnam and moved to this country in 1975, received the National Book Award for Young People's Literature last night, November 16, at the annual awards ceremonies in New York.…
November 14, 2011
There's a really good laudatory review in The Daily Beast of Karl (Matterhorn ) Marlantes' new book, What It Is Like to Go to War by Anthony Swofford, the Persian Gulf War Marine veteran who…
November 9, 2011
Atlantic Monthly Press has announced that it will send a copy of Vietnam veteran Karl Marlantes' new nonfiction book, What It Is Like to Go to War, to every member of Congress---as well as to…
October 18, 2011
There's an excellent summary of the literary work of Wayne Karlin (above ), the former Marine who received the VVA Excellence in the Arts Award in 2005, on the Viet Nam Literature Project blog by…
September 19, 2011
Journalist Marc Phillip Yablonka's 2010 book, Distant War: Recollections of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, which we reviewed in the March/April 2010 issue of The VVA Veteran, has a new publisher: Navigator Books . For more…
September 11, 2011
Michael Stern Hart, the man who is given credit for inventing the electronic book in 1971, died September 6 following a heart attack at his home in Urbana, Illinois. Hart who was born in Tacoma,…
September 4, 2011
Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, the novelist whose books included the Vietnam Warp-themed, Buffalo Afternoon (1989) , died at age 71 on August 26. For that book, her eighth novel, Schaeffer interviewed a good number of Vietnam…
August 7, 2011
The writer Clyde Edgerton, who was a USAF Forward Air Control pilot during his 1970-71 Vietnam War tour of duty, flying missions out of Nakhon Phanom Air Base in Thailand, has written nine novels, a…