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People’s Choice: Vote for the Cover You Like for an Upcoming Vietnam War Novel
February 10, 2024
Koehler Books, which will be publishing what promises to be a worthy Vietnam War novel, Mike McLaughlin’s The War You’ve Always Wanted, in the fall, is doing something unique—and pretty cool—in choosing the book’s front…
Larry Heinemann, 1944-2019
December 14, 2019
Larry Heinemann---the award-winning novelist much of whose work reflected his experiences as a working-class kid from Chicago who was drafted into the Army and served a 1967-68 Vietnam War tour of duty with the 25th…
‘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…
Juris Jurjevics, 1943-2018
November 13, 2018
Juris Jurjevics, a novelist, editor, and the co-founder of the New York independent publishing house, Soho Press, died November 7 at age 75 of heart disease. Jurvevics, who was born in Latvia and emigrated to…
Kickstarting a Vietnam War Novel
September 20, 2017
Adam Berenbak has begun a Kickstarter campaign to help his father, a Vietnam War veteran, publish a novel he wrote, Under The Jackfruit Tree, which deals with the Vietnam War. "He never published the novel, and,…
Free Digital Novel to Vietnam Veterans
November 30, 2016
Bill Yancey is offering free digital copies of his new novel, Abandoned: MIA in Vietnam , to all Vietnam War veterans. Just send an email to wbyauthor@bellsouth.net , identify yourself as a Vietnam veteran, and specify…
Author Query: Army Ranger LRRPs
April 26, 2016
Tom McHugh, who served in the Army in 1961-62, is writing a novel with a main character who is a U.S. Army Ranger LRRP in Vietnam working with Nung fighters from 1963-68. McHugh is looking for…
The Gomorrah Principle by Rick DeStefanis
October 7, 2015
Rick DeStefanis, a veteran of the Army's 82nd Airborne Division, dedicates The Gomorrah Principle (more…)
Last Train Runnin by Ronnie D. Foster
October 6, 2015
Ronnie Foster sums up his opinion of the Vietnam War with words he attributes to his protagonist in his novel, Last Train Runnin (R.D. Foster, 415 pp.; $21.25, paper): Oh the rich kids went to…
The Funny Thing About War by Al Campo
October 5, 2015
Al Campo is a Vietnam veteran who served (more…)