Talk:Michael Herr

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'Serious Journalism'

Michael Herrs style of writing in Dispatches seems contemporary of Tom Wolf; (heavy with P.O.V. light on facts). His style was described by one critic at the time as; 'it's as if Dante has gone to Hell with a pocket full of Pills and a Tape recorder'. The Book was made into a Play which ran at London's Cottesloe Theatre. An Actor playing Michael Herr gave a running commentary from the Stage. This was in 1979. When you entered the Theatre you were given a pamphlet with a list of words that had translations from U.S. Vietnam slang into English. Today even a 10 year old in Doncaster would not need that list, but 'Reefer' 'Huey' 'Gook' etc were unknown in London at that time.Johnwrd (talk) 15:33, 8 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

BLP status change

Due to the death of this person, the BLP status of this article has changed. "This does not mean that unsourced material that would contravene the Biography of Living Persons rules can be added to this article. Capitalistroadster (talk) 20:42, 24 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Vietnam?

Since Herr's only major book is set in Vietnam and his experiences there were deeply affecting to his writing and life (he supposedly had a "nervous breakdown" after he came back that delayed the writing of "Dispatches" for several years,) shouldn't there be something in this article about what he experienced in Vietnam? Pascalulu88 (talk) 10:13, 4 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]