Michael Herr Books In Order

Novels

  1. Walter Winchell (1990)

Non fiction

  1. Dispatches (1977)
  2. The Big Room (1986)
  3. Kubrick (2000)

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Michael Herr Books Overview

Walter Winchell

A streamlined hybrid of novel and screenplay, Walter Winchell tells the story of the failed vaudevillian who became this country’s most influential gossip columnist and ‘wizard of the vicarious.’ ‘Brilliant…
full of punchy dialogue, colorful people and places and period movie devices…
Herr’s hybrid is perfect.’ Chicago Tribune.

Dispatches

Book Jacket Status: JacketedWritten on the front lines in Vietnam, Dispatches became an immediate classic of war reportage when it was published in 1977. From its terrifying opening pages to its final eloquent words, Dispatches makes us see, in unforgettable and unflinching detail, the chaos and fervor of the war and the surreal insanity of life in that singular combat zone. Michael Herr’s unsparing, unorthodox retellings of the day to day events in Vietnam take on the force of poetry, rendering clarity from one of the most incomprehensible and nightmarish events of our time. Dispatches is among the most blistering and compassionate accounts of war in our literature.

Kubrick

Kubrick is Michael Herr’s memoir of his nearly twenty year friendship and collaboration with Stanley Kubrick, one of the greatest filmmakers of all time and the creator of such classics as Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and A Clockwork Orange. From their first meeting at an advance screening of The Shining in 1980, Kubrick and Herr began an intense intellectual exchange that grew into the artistic collaboration that ultimately produced the groundbreaking Vietnam film Full Metal Jacket. Filled with personal insights and previously untold anecdotes, Kubrick is a probing view into the inner life of a man whose creative passion and powerful intellect changed the art of filmmaking forever and of the complicated, often misunderstood man behind the art.

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