R.I.P. Michael Herr

[Skygazer]

Michael Herr, who wrote “Dispatches,” a glaringly intense, personal account of being a correspondent in Vietnam that is widely viewed as one of the most visceral and persuasive depictions of the unearthly experience of war, died on Thursday at a hospital near his home in Delaware County, N.Y. He was 76.

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[Digney in Burnaby]

Still have my copy of Dispatches. Will have to dust it off and reread it soon.