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…
May 4, 2012
John Steinbeck died shortly after he produced the contents of Steinbeck in Vietnam: Dispatches from the War (University of Virginia Press, 216 pp., $29.95), a book that is composed of columns he wrote for Newsday while he…