This review of Don Bodey’s original essay “How to Hunt Fox Squirrels” comes from Tom Powers, proprietor of the Michigan in Books blog. I especially enjoyed a how-to guide to squirrel hunting that is wonderfully bizarre and wacky yet told in convincing detail. The author, among other things, attempts to…
Today is the first anniversary of the passing of Don Bodey. Here at Modern History Press, we are still working to convey the words of Don to a new generation of readers. The Don Bodey reader Deal Me Out and Other Stories is still a work in progress. Nevertheless, we…
As a member of the Upper Peninsula Publishers & Authors Association (UPPAA), Don Bodey’s work was eligible to be submitted for U.P. Reader Volume #5 which was just released on April 11th, 2021. UPPAA includes not just residents of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula but writers from all around the Midwest including…
Thanks to the elves at University of Oregon (UOR) Scholars’ Bank, a PDF document of the complete unexpurgated thesis “An Infield Out” by Don Bodey (1975) is at last available for everyone to read and study. The text includes bitmap and some degree of text as read by Optical Character…
DONALD BODEY, 73, of Tri-Lakes, Ind, passed away Thursday, June 18, 2020. Don was a Fort Wayne native who graduated from North Side High School. He attended Purdue University and received his Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the University of Oregon. He was a Vietnam veteran and…
“Chieu hoi, chieu hoi, chieu hoi.” It is a scream so sudden and frightening that I involuntarily say it aloud myself: “Chieu hoi.” I have brought my rifle down and stand there now with it pointed at two small men who throw their guns down in front of them. The…
We are extremely proud to announce that a long-lost interview with Juanita Watson and Don Bodey has been recovered and posted for your enjoyment. This is the only known recorded voice interview following the release of F.N.G. Revised Edition. Click on the player strip below to listen now
F.N.G. Revised Edition audiobook is now available at Audible.com, iTunes, and Amazon.com. Featuring the voice of Rory Young, this gripping 12 hour rendition of the text will keep you on the edge of your seat. This is the first-ever audiobook and it will help us celebrate the 35th anniversary of…
F.N.G. Revised Edition by Don Bodey Gabriel Sauers of Two Squad is a soldier, newly arrived in Vietnam–a country too beautiful to invite so savagely unreal a war. But Gabriel won’t be a New Guy for long. He’ll go through incoming mortars, he’ll see the enemy alive. He’ll wander through…