Index of titles G-M (i)
from the janitor at the Viet Nam Literature Project
G through M inclusive as of March 23, 2023:
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Goddess on the Rise: Pilgrimage and Popular Religion in Vietnam (i). From anthropologist Philip Taylor and Vietnamese studies. June 27, 2022:
First sentence of the first chapter, at right, “At the base of a small mountain on Vietnam’s border with Cambodia stands a shrine to a goddess known as Bà Chúa Xứ, the Lady of the Realm.”
Goddess on the Rise: Pilgrimage and Popular Religion in Vietnam (ii). From anthropologist Philip Taylor and Vietnamese studies. August 24, 2022:
How do you study silly bullshit? Philip Taylor prefaces his Goddess on the Rise: Pilgrimage and Popular Religion in Vietnam with the remark, “This work is an ethnographic account of pilgrimages and popular religion in Vietnam.”
Goddess on the Rise: Pilgrimage and Popular Religion in Vietnam (iii). From anthropologist Philip Taylor and Vietnamese studies. September 26, 2022:
Hebrew scripture begins with 2 distinct accounts of creation. Either 1 may be true.
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None.
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I will visit your home (i). From poet Nguyen Chi Thien at Viet Nam Literature Project. July 27, 2022:
There is nothing beautiful about his poetry. His verses are in fact no verses.
In the Village of the Man (i). From novelist Loyd Little of the United States Special Forces. June 25, 2022:
I was the hired man caring for 20 thoroughbred mares, their stallion, and foals on a farm where I slept in a hayloft 10 miles north of our place now in Durham. I also audited intellectual property in mergers & acquisitions, day labor at the office of that month’s target.
Index of Authors (i). From the janitor at the Viet Nam Literature Project. January 2, 2023:
We list here our Viet Nam letters by the author given in the subtitle to each letter. They come in alphabetical order by given name rather than family name.
Index of Authors (ii). From the janitor at the Viet Nam Literature Project. January 23, 2023:
This author index has the same contents as the one to titles. That one is accumulating from A forwards through the alphabet, so this one jumps around.
Index of titles A-C (i). From the janitor at the Viet Nam Literature Project. December 30, 2022:
Books & Authors: Viet Nam, Inc., doing business as Viet Nam Literature Project, has posted a Viet Nam letter at substack 3 times each week since February 9, 2022. They appear in date order back from the present under each new post.
Index of titles A-F (i). From the janitor at the Viet Nam Literature Project. January 20, 2023:
Through F as of January 20, 2023: American Time Bomb (i). Joshua Melville and Chicago Review Press.
Index of titles A-F (ii). From the janitor at the Viet Nam Literature Project. March 19, 2023:
Through F as of March 19, 2023: The Accident (i). The Information Specialist James R. Dorris and First Casualty Press.
Index of titles G-M (i). From the janitor at the Viet Nam Literature Project. March 23, 2023:
G though M inclusive as of March 23, 2023: Goddess on the Rise: Pilgrimage and Popular Religion in Vietnam (i). From anthropologist Philip Taylor and Vietnamese studies.
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None.
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The King God Didn't Save (i). From journalist John A. Williams at Coward-McCann, Inc. August 1, 2022:
John A. Williams did not expect a preacher to lead a revolution. No one did.
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Last Man Standing (i). From true-crime author Jack Olsen about the soldier and prisoner Geronimo Pratt. August 13, 2022:
3–15. Soldier's Medal
a. The SM was established by Act of Congress 2 July 1926, as amended by 10 USC 3750 [United States Code.]
Last Man Standing (ii). From true-crime author Jack Olsen about Elmer Gerard Pratt of Morgan City. September 28, 2022:
Eunice Petty Pratt made him, the last of 8 she bore and 7 she raised. I don’t know why she called him Elmer.
Last Man Standing (iii). From true-crime author Jack Olsen about Elmer Gerard Pratt, United States Army. October 1, 2022:
“At Fort Polk, Louisiana, the seventeen-year-old quarterback was issued dog tags, given shots and a physical examination and appointed trainee platoon sergeant. In Washington President Lyndon Johnson was preparing to sign a voting rights act.”
Le communisme vietnamien (i). From political scientist Céline Marangé of Langues O'. October 8, 2022:
I went to fetch Huynh Kim Khanh who fell dead on the paths at Cornell University years ago. You too may visit his Vietnamese Communism 1925-1945 at hundreds of libraries around the world.
Le communisme vietnamien (ii). From Céline Marangé of Sciences Po. November 9, 2022:
Le communisme vietnamien. That is, the Vietnamese communism, the Vietnamese communism, the Vietnamese communism.
Le communisme vietnamien (iii). From Céline Marangé of Sciences Po. November 12, 2022:
That sharp dresser on the cover by my middle finger. That man, in the tones of a bourgeois in Ha Noi speaking of an arriviste from Nghe An.
Le communisme vietnamien (iv). From Céline Marangé of l'Institut de Recherche Stratégique de l’École Militaire. November 15, 2022:
Index. Point with the index between a thumb and middle finger to the index of a book.
Les fleurs s’ouvrent sur ta tombe (i). From poet Thanh Hai and translators Mireille Gansel, Hữu Ngọc and Xuân Diệu at La Maison des Éditions en Langues Étrangères. February 7, 2023:
(Mồ anh hoa nở) FLOWERS BLOOM ON YOUR TOMB
Letters from Attica (i). From bomber Sam Melville at Attica Correctional Facility and editor John Cohen outside. February 1, 2023:
Here is the source from where Joshua Melville extracted his father Sam’s work An Anatomy of the Laundry for his own book. William Morrow and Company published Letters from Attica when I was 12 and its author already would never reach 40.
Letters from Attica (ii). From bomber Sam Melville at Attica Correctional Facility and son Joshua in this century. February 4, 2023:
Sharon Fischer tells about the meetings that gave rise to An Anatomy of the Laundry in a footnote to the 50th anniversary annotated edition of Letters from Attica. John Cohen had noted in the 1972 edition that the work “grew out of Fred Leshure’s weekly sociology class.”
Lotusland (i). From novelist David Joiner and Guernica Editions. August 27, 2022:
Lotusland
A brief stop on the Odyssey home from the war.
Lotusland (ii). From novelist David Joiner after đổi mới. August 29, 2022:
“Nathan Monroe is a 28-year-old American living in Saigon who falls in love with a poor but talented Vietnamese painter.”
You might too as I did when I met her at the bottom of the first page of the first chapter of the novel.
Lotusland (iii). From novelist David Joiner after đổi mới. August 31, 2022:
“Nathan tossed and turned on the hard lower bunk of his sleeper-class room. He peered at his cell phone; it would take 30 more hours to reach Hanoi.”
Lower-case Roman numerals (i). From the janitor at the Viet Nam Literature Project. September 19, 2022:
(i) flags the first post about a book or topic. For example, “Lower-case Roman numerals in parentheses (i)” addresses these numerals for the first time.
Mad Bomber Melville (i). From Leslie James Pickering of the Earth Liberation Front. October 12, 2022:
“Viet Nam in Manhattan?” The United Nations headquarters stand on the island of Manhattan but not in the borough of Manhattan, the city or state of New York, or within the United States of America.
Mad Bomber Melville (ii). From Leslie James Pickering and Arissa Media Group. January 11, 2023:
“Sam was born in 1934.” Sam, it says here, not Samuel.
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Medical Evacuation (i). From author Wayne Karlin and fellow editors Basil T. Paquet and Larry Rottmann at 1st Casualty Press. May 23, 2022:
Medical Evacuation sketches in 3 pages a helicopter flight from Danang and retrieval from Dong Ha of United States Marines wounded at Operation Hastings in 1966. The author was born in 1945 when Marines had 2 more months to fight in the Pacific and no helicopter had yet rescued anyone anywhere.
My verses are in fact no verses (i). From poet Nguyen Chi Thien at Viet Nam Literature Project. July 13, 2022:
“My verses are in fact no verses.” Many readers who admired the man agreed with the poet.