Afghanistan

[Jasper Fidget]

Here's a New Yorker article by Vollman on the Taliban:
http://home1.gte.net/csweet/taliban.htm

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Jizzenberry" <pantychrist at hotmail.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 5:22 PM
Subject: Re: Afghanistan


> William Vollmann wrote a piece in Harper's last year about the Afghani
> situation. It's quite good. Plenty of info on U.S. involvement without
being
> blatantly anti-American, lots on the Taliban regime itself, although I
can't
> remember whether Osama bin Laden was mentioned or not. Unfortunately, if
you
> don't have the actual copy of Harper's (June or July 2000, I think) you'll
> have to pay $9.00 for the article at the Harper's website (this according
to
> a friend of mine). One of Vollmann's earliest works, "An Afghanistan
Picture
> Show...Or How I Saved The World" could be quite revealing as well. He
speaks
> well of both the Afghani and Pakistani people. Might humanize the
situation
> somewhat.
>
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