Bill Burke (1)

If “The Americans” was primarily shot in Kentucky in the 1970’s, you’d get this book. Ends with a beautiful, knuckle-punch essay from Raymond Carver about his father.

Bill Burke's seminal book originally published by Nexus Press in 1987. In the early 1980's Burke traveled to Thailand and Viet Nam, as well as Cambodia where he documented the aftermath of the Khmer Rouge regime. The book will be produced using the original plates, and will feature the same layout and scale as the first edition.

Bill Burke told me that this is his favorite book. I love them all, especially in their original form - as book "dummies," nothing less dumb I know of. The book, although it brings in all kinds of details and ephemera from his journeys to Southeast Asia, is more specifically about the end of a marriage. The book design is as idiosyncratic and scattered as the narrative. It is a diary, a memoir, and haunting.