TIM O'BRIEN Born in Worthington, Minnesota
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Tim O'Brien's Official Website | You Tube excerpt relating Vietnam images to O'Brien's story |
Other General Resources:
- Brown University Writing Vietnam project
- PBS The American Experience: Vietnam Online | PBS Battlefield Vietnam
- SUNY at Buffalo: Dr. Willburn's page on costs of the Vietnam War, for The Things They Carried - Best Sellers course
- Vassar College Vietnam Wars 1945-1975
Online Articles
- Catherine Calloway's "'How To Tell a True War Story': Metafiction in 'The Things They Carried'" (essay in Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, June 1995).
- Dave Kiernan's review of Mark Taylor's Vietnam War in History, Literature, and Film (U Alabama Press 2003).
- Tim O'Brien's Commencement Address 1999, includes audio, Writing vietnman
- Jacquelyn Posek's "The Paradox of Necessity in Tim O'Brien's 'The Things They Carried'" (1997 essay)
- John H. Timmerman's "Tim O'Brien and the Art of the True War Story: "Night March" and "Speaking of Courage" (essay in Twentieth Century Literature, Spring 2000)
- Lynn Wharton's "Tim O'Brien and American National
Identity: A
Vietnam Veteran's Imagined Self in The Things They Carried" (essay
in 49th Parallel: An Interdisciplinary Journal of North American Studies) -
paper given at a conference on National Identities, held at King Alfred
College, Winchester, England, in September 1999
Articles/books available from databases, library catalogue, or stacks: (in progress)
Biography and Other Works:
- O'Brien biography link, recommended by O'Brien | Profile from Ploughshares, recommended by O'Brien | An audio interview (2004)
- Tim O'Brien's "How To Tell a True War Story" from The Things They Carried.
Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when you can't remember how you got from where you were to where you are. Stories are for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story. --Tim O'Brien--
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