Posts tagged “vietnam”
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Radio interview with Fred Wilcox
September 6, 2011
Hear Fred Wilcox chat with progressive radio host Danny Schechter of The News Disssector about his book Scorched Earth. Wilcox talks about how the use of Agent Orange during the Vietnam War, and how the herbicide continues to leave a…
Tags: fred wilcox, interview, radio, scorched earth, vietnam, waiting for an army to die
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Love Like Hate reviewed in Rain Taxi
June 28, 2011
“Linh Dinh’s Love Like Hate is listed by the Library of Congress under the subject headings Vietnamese-Americans, Vietnam, and Losers. These terms offer an insightful micro-synopsis of Linh Dinh’s novel, the first by the Vietnamese-American writer known for his paranoiac stories and poems. In Love Like Hate, Dinh presents us with a brutal, unsentimental portrait of modern Vietnam, with all its disillusionment and degradation.” — Rain Taxi
Tags: book review, fiction, linh dinh, love like hate, rain taxi, vietnam
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Review of Love Like Hate from the Vapor Trail Gallery
May 4, 2011
“Love Like Hate is [Dinh's] first novel, and a pleasure to read – the voice, words, and characters are as carefully crafted as a work poem or a short story. . . . If I were teaching high school, this is a book I’d assign to my students.”
Tags: book review, linh dinh, love like hate, vietnam
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Ron Jacobs on Things We Do To Make It Home at Counterpunch
November 17, 2009
From Ron Jacobs’s “No More Star-Spangled Eyes” at Counterpunch:
Author and antiwar organizer Beverly Gologorsky wrote a book a couple years ago titled Things We Do To Make It Home. This book was recently released in paperback by Seven Stories Press. It is a beautifully wrought story of a group of Vietnam veterans, their lovers, families and friends set in the 1990s. Twenty years after their return from the jungles of Nam the world they live in is still littered with the veterans’ experience in combat. Like so many of their real-life comrades, the men in the story have left much damage in their wake. Simultaneously, there is a love that binds them all together. That same love reaches across the lines between suburb and city while it tears relationships into remnants barely held together by threads of memory. There is no blame here, despite the desire to find somewhere to place the despair and anger resulting from the demons that define the lives these men have lived. The women who have loved them despite their better sense, the hopelessness the men hide with drugs and alcohol and the children who wonder where there father really is even when he’s sitting in the same room are portrayed with an emotional and spiritual depth the reader won’t find in newspaper reports about veteran suicides and PTSD statistics. There isn’t a lot of hope in this novel, despite the optimism voiced by some of its characters. These are men who know they were screwed and can’t seem to figure out how to get past the war they were sent to fight. Nonetheless, they go on living life as best as they can while often unaware of the pain they cause–a pain directly related to the guilt they feel because of the injury they caused to those their commanders called the enemy while fighting Washington’s war.
Tags: articles, beverly gologorsky, counterpunch, fiction, ron jacobs, things we do to make it home, vietnam
