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Jim West, U.S. Marines, Vietnam (Interviewed April 26, 2006) Look up Marine in the dictionary and you might just see a picture of Jim West. Well you certainly should. This former Madisonville Police Chiefs spent nearly 3 years as a ground fighter in Vietnam. Jim West was not a spit-and-polish kind of Marine at all. He was a fighter who didn't mind bending a rule or two if it meant protecting his fellow Marines. If it weren't for those wounds he suffered 30 years ago he said that even at the age of 66 he'd volunteered to fight in Iraq. Sadly within a month of our interview Jim West died after suffering a rattlesnake bite on his own ranch.
James Woodall, Navy/Army, Korea/Vietnam (A&M Class of 1950) (Interviewed January 17, 2008) James Woodall tried to enlist at the age of 15, even as a youth raising money to help the British fight off the Germans. He did enlist in the Navy Reserves in 1947 and retired in 1982, a 35 year military career that took him to Germany, Korea, Vietnam, and the Army War College in Pennsylvania. He was Commandant of the A&M Corp of Cadets until his retirement.
Jorge Accame and Esteban Peicovich discuss Accame's book, Concierto de jazz, which was recently published at the time of this interview. This book is closely related to a previous book, Cuatro poetas. They take turns reading excerpts from these books.
During his interview with Esteban Peicovich, Jorge Boccanera talks about his poems, his birthplace (Bahía Blanca, Argentina), his beginnings as a writer, Luis Cardoza y Aragon (a Guatemalan writer that influenced his works), radio programs with Litto Nebia and Humberto Constantini, his poems as lyrics for famous Argentine singers and his life in Costa Rica. The last part of the interview is a discussion of Boccanera's book in progress about Juan Gelman and Gelman's literary works, his personality and other aspects of Gelman's life. Also during the interview poems are read by both Peicovich and Boccanera.
Keith Youngblood, U.S. Army, Iraq (Interview August 20, 2009) Keith Youngblood packed an incredible life of service into the 20 years between 1987 and 2007. His service started in Germany, continued with 5 months in Operations Desert Storm, and back to Iraq for Operation Intrinsic Action. He served two years working part-time in President Clinton's Communications Detail, three years back at A&M as a Military Advisor, and finally back to Iraq for 13 months as a Military Marksman in a Roving Sniper Unit. Keith Youngblood also tells his personal story of battling PTSD.
Esteban Peicovich interviews Leopoldo Brizuela on the ways and styles of his writings. Brizuela talks about his preferences when writing about a character, how different are narratives from essays and his own writing style. At the request of Peicovich, Brizuela talks about the difference between explaining and describing events in a story, the most effective uses of person (first or third person singular) and tenses (verb forms) and other techniques to write stories or novels. Brizuela uses examples to illustrate his points.
During her interview with Esteban Peicovich at her Buenos Aires home, María Angélica Bosco talks about her beginnings as a writer, her family, her friends (Argentine writers, Silvina Bullrich, Martha Lynch and Silvia Poletti), famous authors who influenced her (Graham Greene and G.K. Chesterton), and the themes of her literary works. Five of her books were detective stories, but she was most interested in social issues, like the situation of women in the Argentine middle class of the 1950s. Her books include La muerte baja en el ascensor, La muerte soborna a Pandora, La trampa, El comedor de diario, Doinde está el cordero?, La Negra Vélez y su ángel, Historia privada, Cartas de mujeres, Retorno a "La Ilusioin", En la estela de un secuestro, Muerte en la costa del río, En la piel del otro, La muerte vino de afuera, El soitano, Las burlas del porvenir, and Tres historias de mujeres. Her published books also include essays like Borges y los otros and Carta abierta a Judas. Bosco wrote several scripts for a detective series called Divisioin Homicidios, from 1977 to 1979. She received several awards and was named woman of the year in 1987. Bosco talks about her autobiography, Memoria de las casas, her diaries, her everyday life at her 91 years, her friendship with J.L. Borges and Julio Cortazar's correspondence with her. The interview ends with Bosco reading one of her stories, Un lunes diferente.
