Conversations with Tim O'Brien

Key Resources

197 Key Resources Interviews and Profiles Blades, John. “Prisoners of War.” Chicago Tribune 9 December 1994. Tempo: 1–2. “Bold Type: Interview with Tim O’Brien.” 13 January 2004. http://www .randomhouse.com/boldtype/0998/obrien/interview.html. Boog, Jason. “Novelist Tim O’Brien Reflects on the 20th Anniversary of The Things They Carried.” Media Bistro 22 March 2010. Web. http://www .mediabistro.com/galleycat/novelist-tim-obrien-reflects-on-the-20th-anniver sary-of-the-things-they-carried_b11338. Bruckner, D. J. R. “A Storyteller for the War That Won’t End.” New York Times 3 April 1990: C15+. Capuzzo, Mike. “A Novelist’s Inner War.” Philadelphia Inquirer 27 October 1994. G1+. Coffey, Michael. “Tim O’Brien: Inventing a New Form Helps the Author Talk about War, Memory, and Storytelling.” Publishers Weekly 237 (16 February 1990): 60–61. Cryer, Dan. “Talking with Tim O’Brien: Goodbye to All That.” Newsday 16 October 1994: 32. Edelman, David Louis. “Tim O’Brien Full Interview Transcript.” 1 October 1994. http://www.davidlouisedelman.com/author-interviews/tim-obri-en-full/. Grossman, Mary Ann. “Reality Doesn’t Matter.” St. Paul Pioneer Press 11 March 1990: 1D. ———. “Secret Life of Tim O’Brien.” St. Paul Pioneer Press 17 October 1994: 1C. Hicks, Patrick. “A Conversation with Tim O’Brien.” Indiana Review 27.2 (2005): 85–95. Kahn, Joseph P. “The Things He Carries: Vietnam’s Sins Still Haunt Tim O’Brien.” Boston Globe 19 October 1994: 69+. Karp, Josh. “The ‘What if?’ Game.” Atlantic Monthly 30 October 2002. http://www .theatlantic.com/unbound/interviews/int2002-10-30.htm. Lannon, Linnea. “In War, Reality Becomes Surreal.” Detroit Free Press 17 April 1991: 3E+. 198 KEY RESOURCES Lowenthal, Michael. “Lying for Love: What Does It Mean When Tim O’Brien Gets Funny?” Boston Phoenix October 1998: 15–21. McMurtrie, John. “Interview with Tim O’Brien.” SFGate, 4 April 2010. Web. http:// articles.sfgate.com/2010-04-04/books/20833716_1_tim-o-brien -book-things. Marquiss, Twister. “Westward Ho! (Chi Minh): Tim O’Brien and the Wounding of the American Cowboy Mythos. Southwestern American Literature 29.2 (Spring 2004): 9–15. Mehegan, David. “New Terrain.” Boston Globe 8 October 2002: E1. Muro, Mark. “Believer in the Grand Theme.” Boston Globe 10 October 1985: 85–86. Rosica, Karen. “Interview with Tim O’Brien—From Life to Fiction.” 15 May 2004. http://www.lighthousewriters.com/newslet/timobrie.htm. Sawyer, Scott. “In the Name of Love: An Interview with Tim O’Brien.” Mars Hill Review 4 (Winter/Spring 1996): 117–26. Schumacher, Michael. “Writing Stories from Life.” Writer’s Digest 71 (April 1991): 34–39. Slater, Judith. “An Interview with Tim O’Brien.” The Short Story Review Spring 1987: 1–5. Streitfeld, David. “The Writer Wounded by Friendly Fire: Vietnam Vet Tim O’Brien, Still at War with Himself.” Washington Post 25 November 1994: B1. Weber, Bruce. “War and Peace.” Esquire September 1985: 269. ———. “Wrestling with War and Love: Raw Pain, Relived Tim O’Brien’s Way.” New York Times 2 September 1998: E1, 4. Articles, Essays, and Books Barden, Thomas E. “Urban Legends in Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried.” War, Literature, and the Arts: An International Journal of the Humanities 22 (2010): 1–14. Bates, Milton. “Tim O’Brien’s Myth of Courage.” Modern Fiction Studies 33.2 (Summer 1987): 263–79. Bonn, Maria. “Can Stories Save Us? Tim O’Brien and the Efficacy of the Text.” Critique 36.1 (Fall 1994): 2–15. Calloway, Catherine. “How to Tell a True War Story: Metafiction in The Things They Carried.” Critique 36.4 (Summer 1995): 249–57. ———. “Pluralities of Vision: Going After Cacciato and Tim O’Brien’s Short Fiction.” In America Rediscovered. Ed. Owen W. Gilman, Jr., and Lorrie Smith. 213–24. Chen, Tina. “Unraveling the Deeper Meaning: Exile and the Embodied Poetics of Displacement in Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried.” Contemporary Literature 39.1 (Spring 1998): 77–99. KEY RESOURCES 199 Couser, G. Thomas. “Going After Cacciato: The Romance and the Real War.” Journal of Narrative Technique 13.1 (Winter 1983): 1–10. Dayley, Glenn. “Familiar Ghosts, New Voices: Tim O’Brien’s July, July.” War, Literature and the Arts: An International Journal of the Humanities 15.1/2 (2003): 316–22. Epstein, Renee. “Talking Dirty: Memories of War and the Vietnam War Novel.” Massachusetts Review 34.3 (Autumn 1993): 457–70. Farrell, Susan. “Tim O’Brien...