Nilanjana S Roy: After Herr

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There was only one story Michael Herr filed from Vietnam itself for Esquire. The essay, "Hell Sucks", ran in August 1968, which begins with the story of the old map of Vietnam on his wall, its obsolescence, its final unreality. "We know that for years now there has been no country here but the war." Back in Greenwich Village, he filed two essays on Khe Sanh in 1969, and a third, "The War Correspondent: A Reappraisal" in 1970. They became the meat of Dispatches, though he didn't publish that book until 1977. In 2000, he gave one of his infrequent ...

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Nilanjana S Roy: After Herr