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Author Interviews and Lectures
Audio and transcribed interviews with Tim
O'Brien, plus some of O'Brien's university lectures.
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Author
Tim O'Brien visits Kalamazoo |
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WMUK Local, March
20, 2006
The Things They Carried is the book
selected for this year's Reading Together
program in Kalamazoo. Author Tim O'Brien's
book weaves together several stories of
one company of soldiers in Vietnam.
O'Brien was in Kalamazoo this week for a
series of events. WMUK's Gordon Evans
talked with Tim O'Brien, who was at the
studios of station KUT in Austin, Texas.
(Audio interview) |
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How
War Changes the Warrior |
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NPR Talk of the Nation,
November 11, 2004
Soldiers returning from combat often
describe themselves as changed, sometimes
for better, and sometimes for worse. This
Veterans Day, those who have been in
battle tell how it altered their lives. |
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Tim
O'Brien |
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Kacey Kowars Show,
September 13, 2004
This week's interview is with Tim
O'Brien, one of our generation's finest
novelists. Mr. O'Brien is the preeminent
chronicler of the Vietnam War. This
interview was recorded in July, 2004 at
the Sewanee Writer's Conference. |
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Tim
O'Brien discusses "The Things They
Carried" |
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Richmond.com,
Tuesday, November 11, 2003
From Go Read, Richmond, VA's 2003
community reading program. |
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Remembering
War |
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NPR Talk of the Nation,
May 26, 2003
The experience of war can hardly be
forgotten, but the way soldiers remember
it can change over time. On Memorial Day,
host Neal Conan and guests discuss war
memories. |
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The
Things He Carries |
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Kennedy School Bulletin,
Spring, 2003
When author Tim O'Brien reminisces
about his years at Harvard in the doctoral
program in political science, which meant
spending much of his time in Kennedy
School classes, his memories are rosier
than those of most former students. Living
and studying in Cambridge, he recalls, “was
like waking from a nightmare and finding
yourself not just in comfort, but where
you’d always dreamed of being. It was a
little surreal in that sense.” The
nightmare was O’Brien’s one-year tour
of duty as an infantryman in Vietnam, yet
few of O’Brien’s fellow students and
professors at the Kennedy School knew that
he had returned from the war just a few
months earlier, much less that he’d
received the Purple Heart for shrapnel
injuries. “I’d wake up every morning
thinking, ‘My God, I’m at Harvard. I’m
not in the jungle,’” he says. |
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Tim
O'Brien talks with Robert Birnbaum |
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IdentityTheory.com,
November 5, 2002 |
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'July
July' |
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NPR All Things
Considered, October 3, 2002
Jacki
Lyden speaks with novelist Tim
O'Brien. |
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The
Things That Writers Carry |
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Davidson College News
& Events, February 8, 2001
Award-winning novelist Tim O'Brien read
from his latest novel and shared some of
his experiences as a writer and a Vietnam
veteran during a recent visit to Davidson
College. (Includes text excerpts from
O'Brien's talk.) |
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Writing
Vietnam |
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Brown University,
Keynote Address, April 21, 1999
O'Brien addresses issues of truth and
fiction and the writer's craft. His
comments include anecdotes from his short
stories "On the Rainy River" and
"Ambush." In both cases, he
follows his retelling with some
explanatory remarks. There is a transcript
of the speech available here, which links
to RealAudio recordings of the event. |
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The
Heart Under Stress |
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Gadfly magazine,
March 10, 1999
Interview with author Tim O'Brien by
James Lindbloom |
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TIM
O'BRIEN |
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NPR Weekend Edition -
Sunday, October 11, 1998
Liane is joined by author Tim O'Brien
to discuss his (then) latest novel,
"Tomcat in Love" (pub: Broadway
Books). |
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In
the Name of Love: An Interview with Tim
O'Brien |
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Mars Hill Review,
1996 |
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A
Conversation With Tim O'Brien |
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Artful Dodge,
October 2, 1991 |
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