September 1, 2010
Peter Rollins, who did a three-year tour as a U.S. Marine infantry officer, including a stint as a platoon leader in Vietnam, recently retired as an English professor after 37 years at Oklahoma State University.…
August 24, 2010
Although it may seem aimed at the current generation of war veterans, the Veterans Book Workshop, which works with veterans and their families to create paperback books using their war images, illustrations and writings, is…
June 24, 2010
Nelson DeMille keeps churning out well-reviewed, best-selling thrillers. Case in point: his 16th book, The Lion (Grand Central, $27.99), another fast-moving, plot-twisting thriller/police procedural staring wise-cracking NYPD homicide detective John Corey. The book came out…
April 11, 2010
"Reading Tim O'Brien in Hanoi" is the title of an interesting "Letter from Hanoi" essay in the April 4 issue of The New York Times Book Review by Matt Steinglass, a German news agency correspondent…
March 20, 2010
Tim O'Brien's publisher, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, is rolling out a huge marketing package to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the publication of his iconic collection of interconnected in-country Vietnam War short stories, The Things They…
March 4, 2010
Richard Curry, the former Vietnam War Navy corpsman whose novel, Fatal Light , is among the best literary treatments of the war, will be taking part in a series of workshops called "Veterans Tell Their…
January 11, 2010
William Lederer, the co-author of the enduring 1958 novel The Ugly American, died December 5. He was 97. Written with political scientist William Burdick, The Ugly American is set in a Sarkhan, a thinly veiled…
January 3, 2010
When I saw The Big Lebowski in 1998, I loved it. But I had no idea it would become a cultural icon that would spawn its own subculture of devotees. I just thought it was…
December 20, 2009
C.D.B. Bryan, the journalist and author best known for his best-selling 1976 book, Friendly Fire , the story of the death in Vietnam in 1970 of infantryman Michael Mullen by an errant U.S. artillery round,…
September 17, 2009
Tim O'Brien, the much-honored novelist whose work is strongly influenced by his Vietnam War service has an interesting essay called "Telling Tails" that deals with what he calls "the centrality of imagination in enduring fiction"…