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Friday, October 2, 2015
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- Linh Dinh
- Born in Vietnam in 1963, I came to the US in 1975, and have also lived in Italy, England and Germany. I'm the author of two books of stories, Fake House (2000) and Blood and Soap (2004), five of poems, All Around What Empties Out (2003), American Tatts (2005), Borderless Bodies (2006), Jam Alerts (2007) and Some Kind of Cheese Orgy (2009), and a novel, Love Like Hate (2010). I've been anthologized in Best American Poetry 2000, 2004, 2007, Great American Prose Poems from Poe to the Present, Postmodern American Poetry: a Norton Anthology (vol. 2) and Flash Fiction International: Very Short Stories From Around the World, etc. I'm also editor of Night, Again: Contemporary Fiction from Vietnam (1996) and The Deluge: New Vietnamese Poetry (2013). Blood and Soap was chosen by Village Voice as one of the best books of 2004. My writing has been translated into Italian, Spanish, French, Dutch, German, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Icelandic and Finnish, and I've been invited to read in London, Cambridge, Brighton, Paris, Berlin, Leipzig, Halle, Reykjavik, Toronto, Singapore and all over the US. I've also published widely in Vietnamese.
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am reminded of the non-conversation i had last weekend with my one german friend here. i mentioned the possibility, just the possibility, that there were no gas chambers, that much or even all of the holocaust COULD be a hoax. this based on stuff recommended by a commenter on this site: ernst zundel, now in a jail in germany for over five years, extradited from canada, because he BELIEVES, yes he just thinks, that the holocaust is a big lie. this is illegal in germany. he wasn't even in germany for something like 30 years (though he is german), but because his website could be accessed in germany he was guilty of subversion or something--really just THINKING THE WRONG THOUGHTS---VERBOTEN. anyway, my friend got very agitated--'that's fucking bullshit', etc. i said how do you know? i said, you know, i thought the same thing but was open minded enough to look at lots of stuff, esp a video of zundel being interviewed by an israeli journalist, and i was if not convinced at least now very open to it. but, i added, to me it actually makes sense. what did i by myself come up with many years ago? that whatever they say (and the holocaust, more than almost anything, is POUNDED into our heads from birth nearly 24/7), believe something like the opposite. that would check out here.
so the u.s. military occupies germany. but who occupies the german mind?
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