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Tim O'Brien Talks with Robert Birnbaum - http://www.identitytheory.com/people/birnbaum72.html
A Robert Birnbaum interview with novelist Tim O'Brien for IdentityTheory.com, posted November 5, 2002. |
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Tim O'Brien - An Introduction to His Writing - http://www.lopezbooks.com/articles/obrien.html
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) |
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Writing Vietnam: Keynote Address - http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/WritingVietnam/obrienpreface.html
Tim O'Brien's President's Lecture at Brown University, 21 April 1999. |
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A Conversation With Tim O'Brien - http://www.wooster.edu/artfuldodge/interviews/obrien.htm
Artful Dodger interview by Debra Shostak and Daniel Bourne, which took place during Tim O'Brien's residency as a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writing Fellow at The College of Wooster. |
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Tim O'Brien, Novelist - http://www.illyria.com/tobhp.html
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. |
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Author Profile: Tim O'Brien - http://www.bookreporter.com/authors/au-obrien-tim.asp
Bookreporter.com briefly profiles the author and offers an interview from 1998. |
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Plausibility of Denial: Tim O'Brien, My Lai, and America - http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~hbf/obrien.html
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. |
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Metafiction and O'Brien's "The Things They Carried" - http://core.ecu.edu/engl/whisnantl/4300/michele.htm
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) |
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Trap-doors and Tunnels - http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/10.19.95/obrien-9542.html
Richard von Busack writes that in the novels of Tim O'Brien, all roads lead back to the Vietnam War. |
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Tim O'Brien and American National Identity: A Vietnam Veteran's Imagined Self in "The Things They Carried" - http://www.49thparallel.bham.ac.uk/back/issue5/wharton.htm
A paper given by Lynn Wharton at a conference on National Identities, held at King Alfred College, Winchester, England, in September 1999. |
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War and War: Love in the Postmodern War Fiction of Tim O'Brien - http://www.gradnet.de/papers/pomo02.papers/warandwar.htm
Paper by Minka Paraskevova and Yordan Kosturkov presented at postmodern de/constructions, the 5th Interdisciplinary, International Graduate Conference at the University of Erlangen/Nuremberg. |
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Everything Is Wrong - Tim O'Brien - http://www.citypages.com/databank/19/927/article5970.asp
Michael Tortorello writes in Minneapolis/St. Paul's City Pages that the notion at the center of all O'Brien's writing is that stories present the opportunity to reconfigure what has happened, to revise events so as to strip them of their destructive power. |
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The Heart Under Stress: Interview with Author Tim O'Brien - http://chss.montclair.edu/english/furr/Vietnam/timobgadflyinterview0399.html
Gadfly Magazine interview with Tim O'Brien by James Lindbloom. |
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An Index to "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien - http://www.brtom.org/tttc/tttc1.html
The pagination in this index is based on the paperback edition of "The Things They Carried," New York: Broadway, 1998. |
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Ten Questions with Tim O'Brien - http://www.flyernews.com/article.php?section=AE&volume=51&issue=9&artnum=01
Patrick Hunt asks O'Brien questions about his writing for the Flyer News. |