"Turse opened a box — it was dusty and looked untouched — and began thumbing through reports of more than 300 allegations of massacres, murders, rapes, torture, assaults, mutilations and other atrocities committed by U.S. military personnel and substantiated by Army investigators."
Paul Grondahl describes Nick Turse's discovery of unknown Pentagon documents, and the subsequent investigations that led to his 2013 bestseller, Kill Anything That Moves, in the Times Union.
More: http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/War-expose-Luck-then-total-dedication-5267572.php
Turse visited the Writers Institute last week:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NINdkI5YrS8
Picture: National Archives in Washington, D.C.
Showing posts with label vietnam. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vietnam. Show all posts
Thursday, February 27, 2014
Stumbling Upon an Undiscovered Archive
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
Nick Turse on Bill Moyers
Nick Turse, investigative journalist who comes to UAlbany today, was interviewed two weeks ago by Bill Moyers:
http://billmoyers.com/segment/nick-turse-describes-the-real-vietnam-war/
“American culture has never fully come to grips with Vietnam,” Turse tells Bill Moyers, referring to “hidden and forbidden histories that just haven’t been fully engaged.”
Come see Nick this afternoon in the UAlbany Performing Arts Center uptown:
http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/turse_nick14.html
He'll be talking about his newest book, Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam (2013).
Nick Turse Today on WAMC with Joe Donahue
Nick Turse, who visits UAlbany this afternoon, was interviewed this morning by Joe Donahue on the WAMC Roundtable.
http://wamc.org/post/nick-turse
Audio should be up soon.
More about Nick's visit: http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/turse_nick14.html
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
On Writing and Erasing History-- Nick Turse
Nick Turse, who visits the NYS Writers Institute tomorrow, calls out the Pentagon for its selective rewriting of Vietnam War history, and makes some dark predictions about the future of propaganda:
"It’s 2053 -- 20 years since you needed a computer, tablet, or smartphone to go online. At least, that’s true in the developed world: you know, China, India, Brazil, and even some parts of the United States. Cybernetic eye implants allow you to see everything with a digital overlay. And once facial recognition software was linked to high-speed records searches, you had the lowdown on every person standing around you. Of course, in polite society you still introduce yourself as if you don’t instantly know another person’s net worth, arrest record, and Amazooglebook search history. (Yes, the fading old-tech firms Amazon, Google, and Facebook merged in 2033.) You also get a tax break these days if you log into one of the government’s immersive propaganda portals. (Nope, “propaganda” doesn’t have negative connotations anymore.) So you choose the Iraq War 50th Anniversary Commemoration Experience and take a stroll through the virtual interactive timeline."
More on Huffington Post via TomDispatch.com: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nick-turse/misremembering-americas-wars_b_4808201.html
More about Turse's visit: http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/turse_nick14.html
Wednesday, January 29, 2014
Chicago Review film review calls "Cyclo" a masterpiece
The Writers Institute will screen the Vietnamese film Cyclo about a bicycle taxi driver caught up in a world of crime on Friday, Jan. 31, 7:30PM in Page Hall.
Jonathan Rosenbaum reviews the film in the Chicago Reader:
Rating **** Masterpiece
"Cyclo is a visionary piece of work, shot through with passion and poetry."
More in the Chicago Review: http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/horror-show/Content?oid=891917
The complete film series on the UAlbany Downtown Campus, 135 Western Ave.:
http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/programpages/cfs.html
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Vietnam-themed events at the Writers Institute
The New York State Writers Institute will feature film, fiction and nonfiction in three events exploring recent history in Vietnam:
January 31 (Friday)
Film screening — 7:30 p.m., Page Hall, 135 Western Avenue, Downtown Campus
Film screening — 7:30 p.m., Page Hall, 135 Western Avenue, Downtown Campus
Directed by Tran Anh Hung (Vietnam, 1995, 123 minutes, color, in Vietnamese with English subtitles)
Starring Le Van Loc, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Tran Nu Yên-Khê
Starring Le Van Loc, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Tran Nu Yên-Khê
The first Vietnamese film to be nominated for an Oscar, and the winner of two top prizes at the Venice Film Festival, CYCLO tells the tale of a bicycle-taxi driver in Ho Chi Minh City who becomes entangled in a world of drugs and crime. The Chicago Reader’s Jonathan Rosenbaum called it, “a visionary piece of work, shot through with passion and poetry.”
James D. Redwood, short story writer
February 18 (Tuesday)
Reading — 4:15 p.m., Standish Room, Science Library, Uptown Campus
James D. Redwood, Professor of Law at Albany Law School, is the author of a first collection of stories, Love Beneath the Napalm (2014), inaugural winner of the Notre Dame Review Book Prize. Based on Redwood’s experiences as an English teacher and social worker in 1970s Vietnam, the stories have been published previously in leading literary magazines, including the Virginia Quarterly Review, Kenyon Review, and TriQuarterly.
February 18 (Tuesday)
Reading — 4:15 p.m., Standish Room, Science Library, Uptown Campus
James D. Redwood, Professor of Law at Albany Law School, is the author of a first collection of stories, Love Beneath the Napalm (2014), inaugural winner of the Notre Dame Review Book Prize. Based on Redwood’s experiences as an English teacher and social worker in 1970s Vietnam, the stories have been published previously in leading literary magazines, including the Virginia Quarterly Review, Kenyon Review, and TriQuarterly.
Nick Turse, investigative journalist and military historian
February 19 (Wednesday)
Reading and discussion — 4:15 p.m., Recital Hall, Performing Arts Center
Nick Turse, award-winning journalist specializing in national security and military issues, is the managing editor of TomDispatch.com and Investigative Fund fellow at the Nation Institute. His newest book is the New York Times bestseller Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam (2013), an account of U.S. war crimes against Vietnamese civilians based on previously classified documents. His investigations of U.S. war crimes have earned him a special Ridenhour Prize for Reportorial Distinction. His earlier books include The Changing Face of Empire (2012), The Case for Withdrawal from Afghanistan (2010), and The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives (2008).February 19 (Wednesday)
Reading and discussion — 4:15 p.m., Recital Hall, Performing Arts Center
Cosponsored by Women Against War, and UAlbany’s Journalism Program in conjunction with its 40th Anniversary
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Wednesday, October 31, 2012
The Big Read in Albany
You may have missed the kick-off event yesterday at The Palace, but there are also two panel discussions, a documentary screening and a musical performance.
You may also be interested in this:
American Place Theatre performance of The Things They Carried
November 7 (Wednesday)
Pre-Performance discussion at 7 p.m.
Performance — 7:30 p.m., Recital Hall, Performing Arts Center, Uptown Campus
$15 general public / $12 seniors & faculty-staff / $10 students Box Office: (518) 442-3997
Tim O’Brien’s masterwork of contemporary literature about the Vietnam War is taken from book to stage by American Place Theatre, the award-winning New York City based company. The verbatim adaptation of this compassionate tale of the American soldier includes five of the short stories from the book including “The Rainy River” and “The Man I Killed.” With original cello music as underscoring, the audience plays witness to the complex issues of war and the universal struggle of the soldier.
For more about the Big Read, visit the website of the Albany Public Library:
http://www.albanypubliclibrary.org/documents/thebigread_2012.pdf Read More......
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