#michaelherr

[benclarkson]

New year reads #dispatches #michaelherr #war #journalism #vietnam #hellsucks #warcorrespondent #rainermariarilke #letters #letterstoayoungpoet #penguinclassics #jackkerouac #kerouac #beat #desolationangels #beatnik #travel #travelwriting https://www.instagram.com/p/BspXLqHjPOV/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=ydrqvfojjj7

[bryanharryrombough]

But what a story he had to tell me, as one-pointed and resonant as any war story I ever heard, it took me a year to understand it:  "Patrol went up the mountain.  One man came back.  He died before he could tell us what happened." I waited for the rest, but it seemed not to be that kind of story: when I asked him what had happened he just looked like he felt sorry for me, fucked if he'd waste time telling stories to anyone dumb as I was.

Dispatches by Bryan Rombough Via Flickr: Michael Herr, Avon: Discus Books, 1980. Found at Black Squirrel Books.

[jayare-m-q]

I've been eyeing this one for so long down at @citylightsBooks finally got it on my way back to my place. #Kubrick #MichaelHerr

[thanh-tan-blog]

The indie used #bookstores in #PioneerSquare are awesome. Adding these titles to my #Vietnam collection. #dispatches by #michaelherr, #goingaftercacciato by #timobrien and #thebestandthebrightest by #davidhalberstam. Anyone else read them yet? #smallbusinesssaturday #ShopSmall (at Nha Thanh)

[vicariousvandal-blog]

“He had one of those faces, I saw that face at least a thousand times at a hundred bases and camps, all the youth sucked out of the eyes, the color drawn from the skin, cold white lips, you knew he wouldn’t wait for any of it to come back. Life had made him old, he’d live it out old. All those faces, sometimes it was like looking into the faces at a rock concert, locked in, the event had them; or like students who were very heavily advance, serious beyond what you’d call their years if you didn’t know for yourself what the minutes and hours of those years were made up of. Not just like all the ones who looked like they couldn’t drag their asses through another day of it. (How do you feel when a nineteen-year-old kid tells you from the bottom of his heart that he’s gotten too old for this kind of shit?) Not like the faces of the dead or wounded either, they could look more released than overtaken. These were the faces of boys whose whole lives seemed to have backed up on them, they’d be a few feet away but they’d be looking back at you over a distance you knew you’d never really cross.” I fell in love with this book. #Dispatches #Vietnam #MichaelHerr #Quote #Literature #War

[asianpopcultureinvasion]

John le Carre was right. But a little too graphic for my taste #michaelherr (Taken with instagram)

[asianpopcultureinvasion]

John le Carre was right. A little too graphic for my taste though #MichaelHerr (Taken with instagram)