Why Do This At All?

Filed under:The Vietnam Project, Writing — posted by jonfrankel on August 23, 2009 @ 7:27 am

My interest in Champa was aroused by reading about the American War with Vietnam. As I read more and more history I came to think that Vietnam is most often viewed as being the object of other nations’ foreign policy. In this formulation Vietnam is the great, anti-colonial champion of the world. Histories stated that [...]

The Vietnam Project

Filed under:The Vietnam Project, Writing — posted by jonfrankel on January 8, 2009 @ 6:16 am

The Vietnam Project is comprised of 3 panels. The first of these is a novel I began years ago, about a grad student who hallucinates an alternate history of the American War with Vietnam. I am hoping to actually complete this novel one day. Part of that will be posting excerpts from books I’m reading [...]