June 25, 2014
The Writers' Circle is a nonprofit on-line magazine that showcases authors, poets, artists, and photographers. It is published three times a year, with each issue running on line for four months. The current issue features…
November 8, 2013
Fay Torresyap, a photo researcher for French magazine GEO is working on an article about a hotel in Saigon, which, she says, which was "built in the 1960s for the American army, " and…
July 15, 2013
Last Sunday's New York Times Travel section included an article featuring Philip Caputo, headlined "To See America, Be a Traveler, Not a Tourist." In it, Caputo--the Pulitzer-Prize-winning former journalist who served as a U.S.…
January 7, 2013
Catherine Karnow, a National Geographic photographer who has been documenting Vietnam for twenty-one years for that august publication as well as for other magazines and books, is putting the final touches on a presentation about that…
February 13, 2012
Former VVA Veteran editor Jeff Stein had an interesting article in the February 12 edition of The Washington Post Magazine . In "What Makes a Perfect Spy Tick?" Stein examines the lives of intelligence operatives in several…
November 2, 2010
Leo Cullum, 68, one of the nation's most prolific and celebrated cartoonists, died of cancer October 23 in Los Angeles. Cullum, who had more than 800 of his light-hearted cartoons---many featuring dogs and cats, businessmen…
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"…
May 12, 2009
When you think of entertainment for the troops in Vietnam during the war, you naturally think of the Bob Hope USO extravaganzas. But the U.S. military also provided lots of stage entertainment--including rock music by…
November 24, 2008
Photo by Tina Barney There's a terrific profile of the playwright David Rabe by John Lahr in the November 24 New Yorker . In the article, headlined "Land of Lost Souls: David Rabe's America, "…