Fishbowl NY’s Dylan Stableford marks the passing of Ed Bradley with a screenshot fron one of CBS’s video tributes. In the clip, the then-34-year-old Bradley reports live from the Philippines, describing his just-completed escape from Saigon as the city fell (“We had to fight our way through that crowd and then scale the wall”). Read More
My Father the Spy is a tracking down of the old man, who’s poised somewhere between public and private life, deep in secrets. There are two reasons for writing this sort of memoir: as redistribution of generational power (revenge); or as inquiry (adventure). The former tends to come from the gut; the latter is Read More
My Father the Spy: An Investigative Memoir, by John H. Richardson. HarperCollins, 314 pages, $24.95
My Father the Spy is a tracking down of the old man, who’s poised somewhere between public and private life, deep in secrets. There are two reasons for writing this sort of memoir: as redistribution of generational power (revenge); or Read More
Show Me the Hue …
Vietnamese in the Village
Charles de Gaulle once said of Brazil, ” Ce n’est pas un pays serieux .” When it comes to restaurants, God knows what he would have made of Hue (pronounced “hway”). It’s the only restaurant I’ve ever been to that has a lounge with two Read More
