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O Brien, Tim | |||||||
  Webpages dedicated to author and Vietnam Veteran O'Brien include information on his novels and short story collections, scheduled public appearances, and links to online interviews and audio recordings of readings, as well as other information related to the author and his works. |
In this essay, Jim Neilson argues that Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried" "accords with much of the anti-totalizing strains of postmodernism" and that "it is precisely this tendency in his fiction that makes it incapable of opposing the ongoing reconstruction of the war as an American tragedy." |
Tim O'Brien's President's Lecture at Brown University, 21 April 1999. |
Full text of the critical essay from Twentieth Century Literature by John H. Timmerman. (Spring 2000) |
Richard von Busack writes that in the novels of Tim O'Brien, all roads lead back to the Vietnam War. |
Interview of Tim O'Brien by Julia Hanna that appeared in Harvard's Kennedy School Bulletin. |
A paper given by Lynn Wharton at a conference on National Identities, held at King Alfred College, Winchester, England, in September 1999. |
Bookreporter.com briefly profiles the author and offers an interview from 1998. |
Ken Lopez writes that O'Brien is widely recognized as the preeminent American novelist of the Vietnam experience and his novels have gained widespread critical and significant popular success because of their ability to translate the experience of wartime into perspectives on the largest questions of life and death. (1997) |
This essay by Michele Friedlander argues that O'Brien's book "comments not only upon the war, but also upon the actual art of fiction: the means of storytelling, the purposes behind them, and ultimately the relationship between fiction and reality itself." (Spring 2000) |
H. Bruce Franklin writes that Tim O'Brien explores our denial of the realities of the Vietnam War and American society. Originally in The Progressive. |
Gadfly Magazine interview with Tim O'Brien by James Lindbloom. |
This essay by Catherine Calloway appeared in Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction. Calloway argues that "the stories become epistemological tools, multidimensional windows through which the war, the world, and the ways of telling a war story can be viewed from many different angles and visions." |
A Robert Birnbaum interview with novelist Tim O'Brien for IdentityTheory.com, posted November 5, 2002. |
Paper by Minka Paraskevova and Yordan Kosturkov presented at postmodern de/constructions, the 5th Interdisciplinary, International Graduate Conference at the University of Erlangen/Nuremberg. |
The pagination in this index is based on the paperback edition of "The Things They Carried," New York: Broadway, 1998. |
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