…ts them: fear, disfigurement, sudden death, the pain of long separation, widowhood. And I feel that I am looking at a period piece, a tableau of that innocent time before Vietnam. Copyright © 1977, 1996 by Philip Caputo || Foreword copyright © 2016 by Kevin Powers A Rumor of War is featured in “The Vietnam War,” the ambitious 10-part documentary series by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, airing on PBS beginning on September 17, 2017. …
Memorial Day, 2024. LCPL CARROLL FANKHAUSER, 1st Battalion, 3d Marines. 8/24/65 PFC ROBERT FERNANDEZ, 1st Battalion, 3d Marines. 6/20/65 CPL BRIAN GAUTHIER, 1st Battalion, 3d Marines. 7/11/65 LCPL REYNALDO GUZMAN, 1st Battalion, 1st Marines. 1/25/66 1STLT WALTER LEVY, 1st Battalion, 1st Marines. 9/18/65 PFC CURTIS LOCKHART, 1st Battalion, 3d Marines. 7/30/65 PFC PATRICK MANNING, 1st Battalion, 3d Marines. 7/30/65 LTCOL JOSEPH MUIR, 3d Battalion,…
…h, I admired novelists whose imaginations and talent enabled them to weave compelling stories of great beauty from the threads of everyday experience. John Updike comes immediately to mind, so does Alice Munro, especially Munro. Their alchemy made poetry out of the prosaic. I cannot fix the time, with any precision, when I began to reject violent events in intemperate climates—dark doings in sunny places in Greene’s phrase—as grist for my own work…
…a nation so vast and diverse together? Is it holding together as well as it once did? What some of them had to say may surprise you. If you have any comments on these two questions yourself, feel free to offer them below….
…can track, but he writes so authoritatively that it doesn’t matter. In the course of nearly seven hundred pages, he encompasses military offensives, the slave trade, arms-running operations, passionate romances, religious conversions, childhood memories, and rampant corruption, in a portrait of a place where “God and the Devil are one and the same.” Caputo lays the groundwork of the novel carefully, introducing his disparate cast of characters; th…
…about. Try to connect with the people who work there and see what kind of treasures you happen upon as you wander around. And if you spot MEMORY AND DESIRE along the way, feel free to snap a photo of it and post it as a comment to this post. I’d love to see where my book is being found by my readers….
…as selected for Best American Travel Writing 2001, edited by Paul Theroux. PDFs and links Click on the publication cover to read the pdf document “A Rumor of Resistance” (1980) “The Unreturning Army” (1982) “Pilgrimage to ‘La Vecchia Paese’” (1988) “Among the Man-Eaters” (2000) “The Dark Skies of Sudan” (2001) “Maneless in Tsavo” (April 2002) “The Border of Madness” (December 2009) “The Wei That Wasn’t” (June 21, 1998) “Life on the Line: The A…
…y because angels and devils do not bleed.” The writing is suberb. Highly recommended for all.” From Kirkus Reviews “An intensely personal, albeit consistently affecting and frequently riveting memoir of years of living dangerously. Caputo (A Rumor of War, Indian Country, etc.) has witnessed much of the worst violence that marked the latter half of the 20th century. A combat veteran of Vietnam, he went on to cover trouble spots throughout the Third…
Author Interviews PRINT | AUDIO | VIDEO | ARCHIVES (click on category to get taken to that interview section) Featured Radio Interview: National Writers Series: An evening with Sebastian Junger and Philip Caputo at Interlochen Center for the Arts Philip and Sebastian Junger talk with retired U.S. diplomat and political advisor Jack Segal. Jack asked Philip to start the discussion by reading from “A Rumor of War.” Listen » Print MoresbyPress.com:…
…in 48 countries on 4 continents”—so it’s no surprise to find that Caputo’s latest compelling work of nonfiction chronicles a quest on foreign ground. The inspiration for Caputo’s African sojourn is found in the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, the final resting place for the two infamous, maneless, man-eating male lions of Tsavo, an inhospitable and scrubby coastal region in East Africa. These beasts “attained mythic status” by killing…
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