# Michael Herr
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Michael David Herr (April 13, 1940 – June 23, 2016) was an American writer and war correspondent, known as the author of Dispatches (1977), a memoir of his time as a correspondent for Esquire magazine (1967–1969) during the Vietnam War. The book was called the best "to have been written about the Vietnam War" by The New York Times Book Review. Novelist John le Carré called it "the best book I have ever read on men and war in our time."
== Life and career ==
Herr was born in Lexington, Kentucky, the son of a jeweler, and grew up in Syracuse, New York.
Full Metal Jacket (1987) w/ Miles Lagoze and Eric Schuman | Ep. 17
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Van and Lyle are joined by Combat Obscura filmmakers Miles Lagoze and Eric Schuman—whose documentary launched Bang-Bang—to unpack what may be the greatest war film ever made.
They revisit Parris Island’s brutal cho ...
IN COUNTRY: Chapter 6
"for years now there had been no country here but the war."
“How many times did someone have to run in front of a machine gun before it became an act of cowardice?”
Dispatches, Herr
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A Deep Dive on Stanley Kubrick's The Shining - The Director Dossiers #15
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Tim Page - Photographer. Balls The Size Of Mangos.
If you've ever read anything about the Vietnam War you'll have heard the name Tim Page. A near mythical, larger than life figure, known not just for his extraordinary art but also for his equally extraordinary, death defying personality and spirit. Having driven overland at the age of 17 to So ...
Digital nomadism: A history and future (from a documentary film in progress)
“Digital nomadism is still being figured out. In twenty years digital nomadism will have a concrete reality that we can’t even predict now.” – Rolf Potts
In this episode of Deviate, which is excerpted from an in-progress documentary called The Nomads, filmmaker Anne von Petersdorff asks Rolf to ...
Martha Gellhorn, Racism, and the Atrocities of Vietnam
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In this episode of Explaining History, Nick returns to the grim realities of the Vietnam War through the eyes of one of the 20th century's most formidable journalists: Martha Gellhorn.
Drawing on Philip Knightley's The First Casualty, we explore how Gellhorn—a veteran of the Spa ...
339 Nathan For You, The House of My Mother, & Full Metal Jacket Preview
In this episode we talk about boy movies, Vietnamese leg injuries, the Permian period, bullet sashes, Youtube, and Indy recommends the awkward, funny, and at times transcendent reality show Nathan For You, Samantha recommends the harrowing memoir The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Fr ...
340 Full Metal Jacket (1987)
It’s been a while since we did any Kubrick, so this week we are tackling the 1987 Vietnam war film Full Metal Jacket! We chat about the systematic destruction of individuality, boy movies, the duality of man, working with Stanley Kubrick, dating apps, masculinity, whether something can be hard t ...
#282: Dispatches
Mark explores Dispatches, the 1977 Vietnam War memoir by Michael Herr.
Michael Herr: The Weight We Carry Up the Wall
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In this episode, therapist and climber Michael Herr talks about what actually drove fifteen years of climbing and a decade of boxing — and what happened when he watched a climbing partner nearly die and his body simply refused to climb again. Drawing on his book The Shadow of t ...
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