Media Type

Audio

Physical Location

Number of Media

1

Language(s)

English

Format

Cassette

Time - Hr:Min:Sec

01:02:40

Digitized in HD?

No

General Note

[tape a] Back in the World: Writing After Vietnam Volume 2 Moderator: Michael G. Stephens Part Two Side 1 The American Arts Project © 1984 Holmes Cassette Group 485 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10017 [tape b] Back in the World: Writing After Vietnam Volume 2 Moderator: Michael G. Stephens Part Two Side 2 The American Arts Project © 1984 Holmes Cassette Group 485 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10017

Media is a continuation of 421au491. Tape is a recording of the second half of the evening with new authors to be interviewed. Authors are: William Crawford Woods, Joseph Ferrandino, Smith Hempstone, Kenn Miller, Chuck Wachtel, Stephen Wright.

(00:43) William Crawford Woods is the author of The Killing Zone and reads an excerpt from one of his works in progress, a conversation between a civilian contract agent and a member of his team. ;
(4:56) Next is Chuck Wachtel, author of Joe the Engineer a novel from which he reads an excerpt. ;
(11:43) Next, Smith Hempstone, the author of A Tract of Time, compares various wars and the media’s response to them. ;
(14:17) Veteran and author of Tiger The Lurp Dog, Kenn Miller, a LRRP team leader, discusses the relationship between war and atrocities. Stephen Wright joins in, giving his opinion on DelVecchio’s earlier remarks about altruism in the Vietnam War. ; (19:08) Next, Vietnam veteran Joseph Ferrandino reads an excerpt from his work in progress, which would later become Firefight. ;

(00:00) On Side B, the panel continues, beginning with remarks from Kenn Miller, and a discussion about the cognitive dissonance created in Americans due to the Vietnam War. ;
(5:54) Next is a reading of an excerpt of Meditations in Green by Stephen Wright, which extends for the remainder of the recording. ;