Michael Herr
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Michael Herr
Michael David Herrwas an American writer and war correspondent, known as the author of Dispatches, a memoir of his time as a correspondent for Esquire magazineduring the Vietnam War. The book was called the best "to have been written about the Vietnam War" by The New York Times Book Review; novelist John le Carré called it "the best book I have ever read on men and war in our time." Herr later was credited with pioneering the literary genre of...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMemoirist
Date of Birth13 April 1940
CountryUnited States of America
It's a corny old gag about Las Vegas, the temporal city if there ever was one, trying to camouflage the hours and retard the dawn, when everybody knows that if you're feeling lucky you're really feeling time in its rawest form, and if you're not feeling lucky, they've got a clock at the bus station.
Maybe nothing's so unfunny as an omen read wrong.