"Kids like me didn't go to Vietnam," writes Jack McLean in his compulsively readable memoir. Raised in suburban New Jersey, he attended the Phillips Academy in Andover, MA, but decided to put college on hold. After graduation in the spring of 1966, faced with the mandatory military draft, he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps for a two-year stint. "Vietnam at the time was a country, and not yet a war," he writes. It didn't remain that way for long.
A year later, after boot camp at Parris Island, South Carolina, and stateside duty in Barstow, California, the Vietnam War was...

A bilingual, Japanese/English, exhibition catalogue (full color, 134 pages) for Scottish Tokyo-based artist Jack McLean. The publication features essays by the renown art critics / writers: Eleanor Heartney and Edward Madrid Gomez, as well as a commissioned piece of fiction, a short story, "The Unhappy Guest," authored by Charles Knudsen. The author drew inspiration from McLean's drawings and his persona character The Sad Clown. The story is printed only in English. The main focus of the exhibition is three conjoined drawings, a triptych of sort, that take the viewer on an actual journey,...