2006-2010

“Missing in Action in the 21st Century” in Blackwell Companion to the Vietnam War. Ed. Marilyn Young and Robert Buzzanco. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 2002, 2006. 317-332.

“Missing in Action in the 21st Century” in Blackwell Companion to the Vietnam War. Ed. Marilyn Young and Robert Buzzanco. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 2002, 2006. 317-332.

“The World in a Prison: Beethoven’s Fidelio,” Fidelio Program, San Francisco Opera 2005-2006 Season. San Francisco, 2005. xvi-xviii.

“Net Losses,” Mother Jones, Vol. 31, No. 2, March-April 2006, 54-57. http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/229/net-losses.html

(“Net Losses” reprinted as cover story, Weeklyplanet.com, April 19, 2006: http://www.weeklyplanet.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A30156;

also reprinted on TheFishingLine,com, March 2006:

“Net Losses,” “Mother Jones on the Air,” National Public Radio, March 10, 2006. http://www.thefishingline.com/history_of_bunker.htm

“On Menhaden,” “Marketplace” with Kai Ryssdal, National Public Radio, April 17, 2006.http://marketplace.publicradio.org/shows/2006/04/17/PM200604176.html

“On Menhaden,” “Shining Light into Darkness,” KOOP (San Antonio), May 18, 2006.

“The Most Important Fish in the Chesapeake–and America,” The Mariner’s Museum, Newport News, VA, June 14, 2006.

“Net Losses” (Mother Jones, April/May 2006) adapted as PBS NOW show with David Brancaccio, July 21, 2006.http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/229/net-losses.html
http://www-tc.pbs.org/now/rss/media/NOW-229.mp3?mii=1&play

“On George Jackson,” KAZU (Pacific Grove, CA), August 25, 2006.

“From Vietnam to Iraq,” WORT (Madison, WI), December 19, 2006.

“The Inside Stories of the Global American Prison,” American Literature Section, Modern Language Association Convention, December 28, 2006.

HERMAN MELVILLE’S THE CONFIDENCE-MAN: HIS MASQUERADE. Annotated edition with critical introduction. Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill, 1967. xxxiv+355 pages. Revised edition with Preface by Daniel Handler. Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive Press, 2007. xxxiii+355 pages.

THE MOST IMPORTANT FISH IN THE SEA: MENHADEN AND AMERICA. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2007. vii+268 pages. Audible Book, 2007. Paperback, 2008.

CRASH COURSE: THE AMERICAN CENTURY AND THE FOREVER WAR. Manuscript finished.

(“From Realism to Virtual Reality: Images of America’s Wars” reprinted in Composing Knowledge, Ed. Rolf Norgaard. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2007. 756-773.)

“‘Vietnam’ in the New American Century,” The United States and the Legacy of the Vietnam War (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007). 33-50.

“Burning Illusions: The Napalm Campaign” in Against the Vietnam War (Revised edition) Ed. Mary Susannah Robbins. Lanham, MD: Rowman, Littlefield, 2007. 62-75.

“The Most Important Fish in the Ocean State,” Providence Journal, June 4, 2007.

“Voices from Prison,” “What’s the Word” (Modern Language Association Radio Program), National Public Radio, March 2007; available at www.mla.org.

Moderator, “Prison Literature,” New England PEN, Boston, April 19, 2007; broadcast live on WGBH; podcast http://forum.wgbh.org/wgbh/forum.php?lecture_id=3456

“The Most Important Fish in the Sea,” Save the Bay, Providence, RI, April 20, 2007.

On The Most Important Fish in the Sea: “Ecologic,” WBAI, April 17, 2007; “Law and Disorder,” WBAI, April 18, 2007; WORT, Madison, WI, May 8; “Steal This Radio,” podcast, May 11; Maryland Saltwater Sportfishing Association, Cambridge, May 17; WSCL, Delmarva Public Radio, May 18; WCTR, Chesterton, MD, May 18; WUSB, Stony Brook, NY, May 21; East Carolina Radio, May 30; Manasquan Fishing Club, June 1; New Jersey Historical Society, June 6; KPFA, Berkeley, June 15; WAMU, Washington, DC, June 29; Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, June 29; Raritan Bay Anglers Club, August 8; Saltwater Anglers of Bergen County, September 18; Teaneck Library, October 9, 2007; WTKF (NC), January 21, 2008.

Commencement Address, Brooklyn Friends School, 2007.

“Save the Ugly Little Fish,” National Public Radio, “Marketplace, Morning Report,” June 5, 2007.http://marketplace.publicradio.org/shows/2007/06/05/AM200706052.html

“The Vietnam War Today,” “Shining Light into Darkness,” KOOP (San Antonio), September 10, 2007.

“An Evening with Bruce Franklin,” NARA Theater, Norfolk, VA, September 20, 2007.

“The Most Important Fish in the Chesapeake,” Virginia Wesleyan College, September 21, 2007.

“Scholar/Activist, Activist/Scholar: The Life and Work of H. Bruce Franklin,” Respondent, American Studies Association, Philadelphia, October 12, 2007.

WAR STARS: THE SUPERWEAPON AND THE AMERICAN IMAGINATION. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988. x+256 pages. Paperback edition, 1990. Revised and expanded edition, Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2008. xii+280 pages. [WAR STARS: GUERRA, CIENCIA FICCIÓN Y HEGEMONÍA IMPERIAL. (Spanish edition.) Translated by Mario Iribarren. Introduction by Andrés Criscaut. Buenos Aires: Final Abierto, 2011. 462 pages.] [Japanese edition, Translated by Nobuo Kamioka (Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 2011.] [Cuban edition, forthcoming, 2018, Instituto Cubano del Libro.]

VIETNAM AND OTHER AMERICAN FANTASIES. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2000. x1v+256 pages. Paperback, 2001. [Spanish edition: VIETNAM Y LAS FANTASIAS NORTEAMERICANAS. Translated by Mario Iribarren. Introduction by Pablo Pozzi. Buenos Aires: Final Abierto, 2008. 382 pages. 2nd Edition, Introduction by Eduardo Grüner. Buenos Aires: Final Abierto, 2012. 374 pages.] [Cuban edition, Introduction by Jorge Hernández Martínez. Havana: Editorial de Ciencias Sociales, 2017. 317 pages.]

THE MOST IMPORTANT FISH IN THE SEA: MENHADEN AND AMERICA. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2007. vii+268 pages. Audible Book, 2007. Paperback, 2008.

(“From Realism to Virtual Reality: Images of America’s Wars,” reprinted in An Introduction to Reading, Research and Writing at the University of Washington (New York: Bedford/St. Martins, 2008.)

(“Can Vietnam Awaken Us Again? Teaching the Literature of the Vietnam War,” reprinted in Controversies in the Classroom, Ed. Joseph Entin, Robert G. Rosen, and Leonard Vogt. New York: Teachers College Press, 2008. 22-28.)

“Teaching ‘Vietnam’ as Matrix for the ‘War on Terror,’” in Peace Not Terror. Ed. Mary Susannah Robbins. Lanham, MD: Rowman, Littlefield, 2008. 25-38.

“Can the Penitentiary Teach the Academy How to Read?” PMLA, May 2008 (Vol. 123, No. 3), 643-649.

Review of The Last Fish Tale, by Mark Kurlansky. Book World, Washington Post, August 3, 2008.

“The Inside Stories of the Global American Prison,” Texas Studies in Language and Literature, 50 (Fall 2008). 235-242. [Reprinted in Liberation Literature Anthology, Summer 2009.]

“Seeing Through the American Prison,” Radical Teacher, Number 83 (Winter 2008), 25.

“What Is Science Fiction–And How It Grew” in Reading Science Fiction, Ed. James Gunn, Marlene Barr, and Matthew Candelaria (London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), 23-32.

p>On The Most Important Fish in the Sea: “Ecologic,” WBAI, April 17, 2007; “Law and Disorder,” WBAI, April 18, 2007; WORT, Madison, WI, May 8; “Steal This Radio,” podcast, May 11; Maryland Saltwater Sportfishing Association, Cambridge, May 17; WSCL, Delmarva Public Radio, May 18; WCTR, Chesterton, MD, May 18; WUSB, Stony Brook, NY, May 21; East Carolina Radio, May 30; Manasquan Fishing Club, June 1; New Jersey Historical Society, June 6; KPFA, Berkeley, June 15; WAMU, Washington, DC, June 29; Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, June 29; Raritan Bay Anglers Club, August 8; Saltwater Anglers of Bergen County, September 18; Teaneck Library, October 9, 2007; WTKF (NC), January 21, 2008.

“Music and the Vietnam War” on “When Pop and Politics Meet,” Radio Scotland, BBC, January 18, 2008.

“The Tet Offensive,” Brecht Forum (NYC), February 25, 2008.

“Menhaden,” Consultative Group on Biological Diversity, Baltimore, March 6, 2008.

“The Most Important Fish in the Sea,” The Nature Conservancy (New York), March 6, 2008.

“The Antiwar Movement We’re Supposed to Forget,” Campus Antiwar Network, East Coast Conference, April 5, 2008.

“The Superweapon and the American Imagination,” Hamner Lecture, University of Western Michigan, April 10, 2008.

“The Most Important Fish in the Sea,” University of Western Michigan, April 11, 2008.

Keynote Address, Forage Fish Conference, Marine Fish Conservation Network, Raleigh, NC, April 18, 2008.

Keynote Address, Marine Fish Conservation Network Annual Conference, Washington, DC, June 3, 2008.

“War Stars,” Electric Politics Podcast, June 20, 2008. http://www.electricpolitics.com/podcast/2008/06/its_not_defense_spending.html

“Science and History: The Case of Menhaden,” Virginia Institute of Marine Science, July 8, 2008.

“War Stars,” WORT (Madison), July 15, 2008.

“The Most Important Fish in the Sea,” Chilmark Public Library, Martha’s Vineyard, July 30, 2008.

“From Whales to Menhaden,” New Bedford Whaling Museum, July 31, 2008.

On War Stars, KOOP (Texas), August 3, 2008.

Interview on “Eco Logic,” WBAI, August 5, 2008.

Interview on “Law and Disorder,” WBAI August 11, 2008. http://lawanddisorder.org/2008/08/10/law-and-disorder-august-11-2008/

“The Inside Stories of the American Prison,” Old Dominion University, October 2, 2008.

“War Stars,” New York Metropolitan Area American Studies Association, November 12, 2008.

“The Most Important Fish in the Sea,” William Paterson University, November 13, 2008.

“The Inside Stories of the Global American Prison,” Texas Studies in Language and Literature, 50 (Fall 2008). 235-242. [Reprinted in Liberation Literature Anthology, Summer 2009.]

“Transforming Futures,” Science Fiction Studies, 36 (July 2009), 197-198.

“Ne vous inquiétez pas, ce n’est que de la science-fiction!” (translated from War Stars) in Solution non satisfaisante, (Paris: Editions du Somnium, 2009 ; ISBN : 978-2-9532703-4-1), 89-117.

“The Most Important Fish in the Sea,” One Community, One Book, Wellfleet, MA, March 21, 2009.

Video presentation of VIETNAM Y LAS FANTASIAS NORTEAMERICANAS, University of Buenos Aires, April 27, 2009.

“The Most Important Fish in the Sea,” University of the District of Columbia, November 5, 2009.

“The Most Important Fish in the Sea,” Coastal Flyrodders of New Jersey, November 17, 2009.

Chair and commentator, “Technologies of War,” American Studies Association, November 7, 2009.

“Menhaden,” Radio Five Live, BBC, December 24, 2009.

“An Industry’s Ruins,” in Ruth Formanek, Fish Factories: Ruins of an American Industry (New York, NY: Pogonia Press, 2010; ISBN 978-0-9817670-1-7), 19-59.

“La mente como campo de batallo,” (Interview) Ñ, Clarin, Buenos Aires, Argentina, April 3, 2010. http://www.revistaenie.clarin.com/notas/2010/04/03/_-02171995.htm

“‘Doctor’ Frankenstein and ‘Scientific’ Medicine” reprinted in Bioethics in Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein,” ed. Gary Wiener (San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press, 2010).

“Billy Budd and Capital Punishment: A Tale of Three Centuries” reprinted in Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Vol. 234 (Gale Publishing: Farmington Hills, MI, 2010.)

“Forage Fish,” KUOW (Seattle), January 5, 2010.

“Menhaden,” Voice of America TV (recorded January 7, 2010).

“Omega Protein,” Fox News TV, Washington, March 4 and 5, 2010.

“Menhaden,” Morning Show, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, April 5, 2010.

“The U.S. Political Environment,” 3CR 855AM, Melbourne, April 27, 2010.

“The Most Important Fish in the Sea,” WMNY (Pittsburgh); WVLY (Wheeling, WV). (Recorded, September 2, 2010).

“The Antiwar Movement We’re Not Supposed to Know About,” The Big Read, Ephrata (PA) Library, September 23, 2010.