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Nonfiction

Working the Vietnam News

Posted in Nonfiction, Writing | on Apr 24, 2022

I had the address written on a piece of paper. 79 Ly Thuong Kiet Street.

The spy who came in off the street

Posted in Nonfiction, Writing | on Dec 14, 2020

A visit from a man who claimed he was robbed at gunpoint and his secret documents stolen. 

Richard and the clicker girl

Posted in Nonfiction | on Feb 17, 2019

Richard Pettit was the Charles Bukowski of Hanoi in the late 1990s. This is one of his stories.

Review: ‘Memories of the subsidized era’

Posted in Nonfiction | on Jan 25, 2019

Funny cartoons about air raids, forced conscription and ration tickets.

Café 129

Posted in Nonfiction | on Jul 11, 2018

I knew that I would never step inside the narrow walls of Café 129 again.

Cloud over Sapa

Posted in Nonfiction | on Jan 15, 2018

My first night in Sapa, in November of 1998, I went walking alone down the main street.

Songs of a strolling blind musician

Posted in Nonfiction | on Jan 15, 2018

They plucked the strings roughly, and the sound hung in the air like a slow breeze.

At night at the races

Posted in Nonfiction | on Jan 15, 2018

An accident seemed inevitable, I only wondered if someone would be killed.

The Canadian connection

Posted in Nonfiction | on Jan 04, 2018

In early March 2007 police found cannabis growing in large gardens in Ha Tay province, near Hanoi.