Articles Related to Michael Herr

Michael Herr, 1940-2016

June 29, 2016

Michael Herr, the journalist and author best known for his Dispatches , his 1977 stylized book of Vietnam War reporting, died June 23 at age 76. Herr went to the war zone to write a series…

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Dispatches by Michael Herr

November 6, 2013

The unique thing about discovering Michael Herr's Vietnam War tale, Dispatches  (272 pp., 1977) in a used-book venue was the cover---it really catches the eye. Citing in bold lettering no less than John Le Carre's…

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War: The Eighty Greatest Esquire Stories of All Time

April 8, 2013

War: The Eighty Greatest Esquire Stories of All Time (Byliner, $3.99) is a digital book that, as the title says, contains a huge collection of essays about war that appeared in the pages of Esquir…

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