Pullman author will read from war memoir

Julie Titone will read from the memoir that she co-authored with the late artist Grady Myers, “Boocoo Dinky Dow: My short, crazy Vietnam War,” March 21 at 5:30 p.m. at Neill Public Library in Pullman.

Joining her will be WSU professor of English and Vietnam veteran Victor Villanueva Jr. The book takes its title from soldiers’ slang pronunciation of “beaucoup dien cai dau,” meaning very crazy. A reviewer for the Vietnam Veterans of America called the memoir “Lucid ... well-told, beautifully illustrated and infused with humor.”

Washington State Magazine praised it as “Part ‘M*A*S*H’ and part ‘Fu...