“Nick’s book makes for timely if extraordinarily painful reading, and I sat down with him recently to talk about the ongoing relevance of Vietnam, massacres, and secretly photocopying whole US government archives.” So writes Dan Denvir in prelude to an interview with me for VICE magazine about my new book, Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam.
Read the full interview here: “The Secret History of the Vietnam War” | VICE
This one really knocked me for a loop. Daniel Ellsberg — a Marine Corps veteran, a State Department official who served in the field in Vietnam, and the man who eventually leaked the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times — has probably seen it all and read it all when comes to the Vietnam War and, more generally the dark underside of American power. And yet, he was shocked by my new book. I still haven’t completely wrapped my head around it, but I’m grateful for the humbling blurb.
If you’re interested in pre-ordering Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam, you can do so at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Indie Bound.
In 1936 The Colophon asked readers which ten writers would still be read in the year 2000. Six out of ten isn’t bad, right?
- Sinclair Lewis
- Willa Cather
- Eugene O’Neill
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Robert Frost
- Theodore Dreiser
- James Truslow Adams
- George Santayana
- Stephen Vincent Benet
- James Branch Cabell
(via The Millions)
Now, what about in year 3000?
Tonight, I’ll be hosting a FireDogLake book salon to discuss Tom Engelhardt’s latest volume starting at 5 pm for those on the East Coast. For more, see:
Saturday, January 14, 2012, 5:00 pm EST (2:00 pm Pacific time)
FDL Book Salon: The United States of Fear
Author: Tom Engelhardt
(via Book Salon)
