Tim O'Brien's Books
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The Soldiers of HallaThe final showdown for Halla is here in The Soldiers of Halla, Book Ten in D.J. MacHale's #1 New York Times bestselling Pendragon series.Read More
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The Sea of TrollsJack was eleven when the berserkers loomed out of the fog and nabbed him. "It seems that things are stirring across the water," the Bard had warned....Read More
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Helena Independent, November 10, 2009
...Lewis and Clark Library, and all library staff: Thank you for all you did to bring the author Tim O'Brien to Helena with The Big Read. Students in English classes at Helena High School and Capital High School were particularly impacted by the experience...
News Gazette, November 6, 2009
...CHARLESTON – National Book Award winner Tim O'Brien will present the third annual James Jones Lecture at 7 p.m. Friday at the Doudna Fine Arts Center at Eastern Illinois University. The lecture is part of...
MIS Asia, November 6, 2009
...Greene except a radio script, no David Leavitt, no Bobbie Ann Mason's 'In Country', no Pynchon, no Tim O'Brien, no 'Swimming-Pool Library', no Barbara Pym, no Saul Bellow, no Frederick Exley, no 'World According to Garp', no 'Catch-22', no 'Breakfast at...
Scranton Times-Tribune, October 30, 2009
...can resurrect the dead, give an enemy a human face and highlight the shaky nature of truth, author Tim O'Brien told a gathering at Marywood University on Thursday. Mr. O'Brien, author of several works about the infantryman's experience in the Vietnam...
Smithsonian Magazine, October 23, 2009
...My Kind of Town The novelist revisits his past to come to terms with his rural hometown By Tim O'Brien Presence of Mind Those who don't have power tend to make fun of those who do. But what happens when power shifts? By Lance Morrow Letters Readers...
Norman Transcript, October 22, 2009
...Club,' by Amy Tan; 'The Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe' and 'The Things They Carried,' by Tim O'Brien. Ballot boxes will be placed at each hometown library in Cleveland, McClain and Pottawatomie counties. Voting also may be accomplished online at...
Earthtimes.org, October 19, 2009
...ASCAP membership. Those writers are Bruce Bouton, Darrell Brown, Gregg "Hobie" Hubbard, Richard Marx, Charlie Monk, Steve Nathan, Tim O'Brien, Bob Regan, Leon Russell, Jimmie Lee Sloas, Adele Tyler, Dan Tyler, Paul Worley and Richard Young. Immediately...
Globe and Mail, October 9, 2009
...a war for the good ones to appear, for that transition to occur in the author's mind. Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried was published in 1990, fully 15 years after the helicopters pulled away from the roof in Saigon; Jarhead appeared just as Iraq was...
Scranton Times-Tribune, October 8, 2009
...for me. It was written for the general population," Vietnam veteran and panelist Michael McLane said of Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried," this year's selection for the Scranton Reads - One City, One Book program.Mr. McLane and the seven other...
Earthtimes.org, October 2, 2009
...and jpeg images of the slides (for watching on your mobile media device). The webinar is led by Tim O'Brien, an expert at helping accountants get published, and focuses on: Everything an accountant needs to know in 60 minutes about getting published and...
Reuters, October 2, 2009
...and jpeg images of the slides (for watching on your mobile media device). The webinar is led by Tim O'Brien, an expert at helping accountants get published, and focuses on: * Everything an accountant needs to know in 60 minutes about getting published...
Laguna Beach Independent, September 25, 2009
...Top 10 Bestsellers - Fiction 1. The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown 2. The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien 3. True Compass: A Memoir by Edward M. Kennedy 4. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski 5. The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson...
Suite101.com, September 11, 2009
...Home » Reading & Literature » American Fiction » Modern American Fiction » Themes of War and Mystery in O?Brien?s Novel © Jeris Swanhorst What are the effects of war on a person? For John Wade, they are ceaseless and far-reaching. The 1994 novel...
NewsBlaze, September 1, 2009
...shows, tourist attractions, motion pictures, merchandise and the worldwide syndication of its daily newspaper cartoon. Ripley Entertainment Inc. Tim O'Brien, VP Communications, 615-646-7465 Cell - 615-496-5949 Obrien@ripleys.com...
Reuters, September 1, 2009
...shows, tourist attractions, motion pictures, merchandise and the worldwide syndication of its daily newspaper cartoon. Ripley Entertainment Inc. Tim O'Brien, VP Communications, 615-646-7465 Cell - 615-496-5949 Obrien@ripleys.com Copyright Business Wire...
PRNewsChannel.com, August 26, 2009
...John Grisham, John Irving, Stephen King, Harper Lee, Cormac McCarthy, Larry McMurtry, Arthur Miller, Lt. General Hal Moore, Tim O'Brien, E. Annie Proulx, Anne Rice, Wilbur Smith, Nicholas Sparks, Hunter S. Thompson, Kurt Vonnegut, and Joseph Wambaugh....
RBC Dain Raushcer, August 4, 2009
...merchandise and the worldwide syndication of its daily newspaper cartoon. SOURCE: Ripley Entertainment Inc. CONTACT: Ripley Entertainment Inc. Tim O'Brien, VP Communications, 615-646-7465 Cell: 615-496-5949 Obrien@ripleys.com Copyright Business Wire 2009...
PRWeb, August 4, 2009
...Author and Vietnam Veteran Tim O' Brien tells how the Woodstock festival let American GIs know they were not alone. London (PRWEB) August 4, 2009 -- Award-winning author and Vietnam veteran Tim O'Brien has...
Street Insider, July 29, 2009
...situation and as when using newer media to promote a product.' Jacobs-Meadway is based in Philadelphia. News Contact: Tim O'Brien, timobrien@timobrienpr.com Phone: +1-412-854-8845 (7/29/09) EXPERT ALERTS 1. ECONOMY: THE CALIFORNIA BUDGET CRISIS AND LEGAL...
Street Insider, June 29, 2009
...protection clause and Title VII's prohibition on disparate treatment discrimination. Myers is based in Pittsburgh. News Contact: Tim O'Brien, timobrien@timobrienpr.com Phone: +1-412-854-8845 (4/30/09) 15. MARTIN KATZ, professor and interim dean at the...
IBerkshires.com, June 25, 2009
...funny, often profound narrative about the human hearthow it fares under pressure, and what it can endure. Author Tim O'Brien served as a foot soldier in Vietnam in 1969 and 1970. His other books include If I Die in a Combat Zone Box Me Up and Ship Me...
IBerkshires.com, June 24, 2009
...funny, often profound narrative about the human hearthow it fares under pressure, and what it can endure. Author Tim O'Brien served as a foot soldier in Vietnam in 1969 and 1970. His other books include If I Die in a Combat Zone Box Me Up and Ship Me...
National Post, June 15, 2009
...45 years: 'If stories didn't matter, we wouldn't be telling stories all the time,' he said. Tim O'Brien, the author of The Things They Carried and many other works of fiction, argued that 'literature has a way of reminding us of things we know in our...
Boston Globe, June 14, 2009
...the library, here are some keepers, and why they matter: 'The Things They Carried,' published in 1990, by Tim O'Brien, whose earlier Vietnam book, 'Going After Cacciato,' won the National Book Award - Both are great, but I opt for this one. 'The Things...
Boston Globe, June 13, 2009
...the library, here are some keepers, and why they matter:'The Things They Carried,' published in 1990, by Tim O'Brien, whose earlier Vietnam book, 'Going After Cacciato,' won the National Book Award - Both are great, but I opt for this one. 'The Things...
Washington Post, June 8, 2009
...but it isn't anything other than op-ed with nothing real to back it up. Update: NYTimes editor Tim O'Brien, who has trashed us before, tells Jeff Jarvis via Twitter '@jeffjarvis really, it has nothing to do with a 'playground fight'. it's just a a...
Fairmont Sentinel, June 8, 2009
...by Stephenie Meyer. Other selections include 'House of the Scorpion' by Nancy Farmer, 'The Things They Carried,' by Tim O'Brien, 'Three Little Words,' by Ashley Rhodes-Courter, 'The Invention of Hugo Cabret,' by Brian Selznick, and 'The Book Thief' by...
Globe and Mail, May 26, 2009
...dead. In the words of William Goldman, it was inconceivable At that same seminar, I watched Wayson Choy, Tim O'Brien and John Metcalf speak on the topic of writing craft. I don't recall what they said, but I do recall their poise, and their...
Street Insider, April 30, 2009
...protection clause and Title VII's prohibition on disparate treatment discrimination. Myers is based in Pittsburgh. News Contact: Tim O'Brien, timobrien@timobrienpr.com Phone: +1-412-854-8845 (4/30/09) 15. MARTIN KATZ, professor and interim dean at the...
DBusinessNews.com, April 8, 2009
...after spending time talking to people at a residential hospice in Austin. Written in the novel-in-stories style of Tim O'Brien?s ?July July,? O?Connell?s characters in ?Evacuation Plan? reveal themselves in poignantly unfolding stories: the...
Apple Valley Sun-Current, April 6, 2009
...If audience members expected author Tim O'Brien to talk about his experiences in Vietnam and the books he wrote about the war, they may have been surprised by the topic he chose for his Pen...
Bloomington Sun-Current, March 30, 2009
...If audience members expected author Tim O'Brien to talk about his experiences in Vietnam and the books he wrote about the war, they may have been surprised by the topic he chose for his Pen...
Eagan Sun-Current, March 26, 2009
...If audience members expected author Tim O'Brien to talk about his experiences in Vietnam and the books he wrote about the war, they may have been surprised by the topic he chose for his Pen...
Examiner.com, March 16, 2009
...Minnesota author Tim O?Brien is scheduled to lecture on March 19th and 20th as part of the Hennepin County Library Foundation?s Pen Pals series. Austin born and Macalester educated, O?Brien...
Minneapolis Star Tribune, March 6, 2009
...Too is located in Ecolab Plaza, between 5th and 6th Sts. on Wabasha, in the Alliance Bank Center. Tim O'Brien will speak here next week as part of the annual Pen Pal Lecture Series, sponsored by the Library Foundation of Hennepin County. O'Brien, author...
Eastside Business, March 6, 2009
...the 2006 National Book Award. The annual Writer's Symposium brings noted authors, such as Egan, Ursula Hegi, Tim O'Brien and Michael Dorris, to Overlake classrooms, where they spend the school day talking with students about their works and the writing...
Eastside Business, March 6, 2009
...the 2006 National Book Award. The annual Writer's Symposium brings noted authors, such as Egan, Ursula Hegi, Tim O'Brien and Michael Dorris, to Overlake classrooms, where they spend the school day talking with students about their works and the writing...
Seattle Post Intelligencer, February 13, 2009
...a powerful and sensitive intellect to his work. I worked with David on my first adaptation for Book-It (Tim O'Brien's 'If I Die in a Combat Zone Box Me Up and Ship Me Home'), and he really drew the audience into the internal landscape of a soldier...
Guardian Unlimited, February 2, 2009
...Astronomer Dr Tim O'Brien at the Lovell Telescope. Photograph: James Randerson Mass of the telescope: 3,200 tonnes Mass of bowl: 1,500 tonnes Diameter of bowl: 76.2 metres Surface area...
Guardian Unlimited, January 23, 2009
...replacing To Kill a Mockingbird with David Guterson's Snow Falling on Cedars, Of Mice and Men with Tim O'Brien's Vietnam novel Going After Cacciato, and Huck Finn with Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove. 'Like Huck, Dove involves an epic journey of discovery...
Guardian Unlimited, January 23, 2009
...aboard a ship, O'Brian's tales of naval derring-do are masterful in conception and execution. Nicola Barr Tim O'Brien: The Things they Carried (1990) 'They carried the common secret of cowardice ? Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not...
The Intelligencer / Wheeling News-Register, January 11, 2009
...several Wheeling businesses. The Cityfolk art series in Dayton is hosting a performance this week by Wheeling native Tim O'Brien, the 'peerless' bluegrass-roots music singer-songwriter, and country-bluegrass musician Dan Tyminski. The Dan Tyminski Band...
PR inside, December 24, 2008
...company in Canada. For additional information, please contact: Madalena Phillips, Ripley's Times Square (212) 398-3133, madalena@ripleysnewyork.com Tim O'Brien, Ripley Entertainment Inc. (615) 646-7465, obrien@ripleys.com...
Blogcritics.org, December 16, 2008
... by Tim O'Brien. This is on the (very) short list of books I've bought because I had to read them for a class, and enjoyed them. Though, oddly, it took...
Helium, November 28, 2008
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Savvy Verse & Wit, September 23, 2009
...to 12:45 PM Kay Ryan , a poet and U.S. Poet Laureate 4:15 to 5 PM Tim O'Brien , author of some of the best Vietnam War literature out there. In the mystery and thriller pavilion: 12:55 to 1:25 PM James Patterson 2:40 to...
(i'm not obsessed with) the darker mind, September 7, 2009
...Strange Land . Chaim Potok's The Chosen . Ursula LeGuin's The Dispossessed . Douglas Coupland's Life After God . Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried and July, July . (Of the last two only the first had been previously adored, but both are autographed...
Original Content, July 31, 2009
...It was so clearly meant for me. So far, all I've finished reading is an essay by Tim O'Brien called Telling Tails . It is fantastic. Just wonderful. I love it when it is clear that I am meant to do something, and I'm actually able to...
Life and Times of a"New" New Yorker, June 11, 2009
...Chamber Romance - Li Li Chen 1978 Blood Tie - Mary Lee Settle 1979 Going After Cacciato - Tim O'Brien 1980 The World According to Garp - John Irving 1980 Sophie's Choice - William Styron 1981 Plains Song - Wright Morris Plains Song 1982 Rabbit is Rich...
Emerging Writers Network, May 26, 2009
...that more enjoyable. Home of the Brave is a solid collection with authors like Mary Akers, Pinckney Benedict, Tim O'Brien, Chris Offutt, Kurt Vonnegut, James Salter, Tobias Wolff, and Benjamin Percy. A portion of the proceeds are being donated to USA...
Isak, May 21, 2009
..."Hands," by Sherwood Anderson "Goodbye, My Brother," by John Cheever "The Things They Carried," by Tim O'Brien "The Dead," by James Joyce "Gusev," by Anton Chekhov "Me and Miss Mandible," by Donald Barthelme "Robert Kennedy Saved From Drowning," by...
The Stranger: Slog, May 13, 2009
...page misspells Richard Powers' name as "Richard Power"), but there are some great authors here: David Foster Wallace, Tim O'Brien, Don Delillo, and Heidi Julavits. To celebrate the launch of the fiction side of their site, Esquire is hosting a short...
Emerging Writers Network, May 9, 2009
...Stand Here Ironing by Tillie Olsen All Things Are Labor by Katherine Arnoldi The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien For Esme with Love and Squalor by J.D. Salinger Bio: Dawn Raffel is the author of the story collection, In the Year of Long Division ,...
Rarely Likable, May 5, 2009
...Workshop in the Late 80's - Mid 90's, You Read These: The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien Cathedral - Raymond Carver Wants - Grace Paley The Shawl - Cynthia Ozick Gryphon - Charles Baxter Sarah Cole: A Kind of Love Story - Russell Banks The...
Band of Thebes, May 5, 2009
...complete list of O. Henry prize winning stories is here . This year's judges were A.S. Byatt, Tim O'Brien, and Anthony Doerr...
Mark Athitakis' American Fiction Notes, April 22, 2009
...A couple of weeks back the Virginian-Pilot interviewed Tim O’Brien about his books, more specifically his novels and stories about Vietnam. Even more specifically, he discussed the role that truth-bending plays in any narrative about war. He explains...
EdTech Solutions - Teaching Every Student, March 2, 2009
...it. It is in your commercial interest to leave TTS enabled. Don't believe me? Check out what Tim O'Brien, a blind photographer has to say in his post entitled, "One Small Step for Amazon, One Giant Leap Backwards for Access." Now the good news : Read this...
The Big Read Blog, March 2, 2009
...to the Web site this fall, more on Thornton Wilder’s The Bridge of San Luis Rey and Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried , the other two Big Read books that take wartime as their setting...
PalmTree Pundit, January 24, 2009
...1997) 29. Bel Canto, Anne Patchett (2001) 30. Case Histories, Kate Atkinson (2004) 31. The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien (1990) 32. Parting the Waters, Taylor Branch (1988) 33. The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion (2005) 34. The Lovely Bones,...
ava, January 12, 2009
...Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and of course, the character Tim O’Brien who has survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three. They battle the enemy...
arjun, January 11, 2009
...Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and of course, the character Tim O’Brien who has survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three. They battle the enemy...
LasVegasNewz, December 26, 2008
...every survey course imaginable (Proto-Feminist Colonial Fiction 1724-1775, anyone?), I don’t know how I ever missed reading Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried . Somehow I did, though, and now I’m catching up — and kicking myself as I do:...
emerson, December 15, 2008
...the best war novels: The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer, or The Things They Carried , by Tim O’Brien.”– Tom Walker, The Denver Post “Stands in a league with Shelby Foote’s stirring Civil War Diary, Shiloh .”– Jim Haner, The Baltimore...
Kutukutubuku.com Blog, December 4, 2008
...Sebald Stone Junction – Jim Dodge The Music of Chance – Paul Auster The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien A Home at the End of the World – Michael Cunningham Like Life – Lorrie Moore Possession – A.S. Byatt The Buddha of Suburbia – Hanif...
Omnivoracious, November 25, 2008
...itching for a fight: he is a Great American Writer through and through. The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien (1990): O'Brien was born in Austin, grew up in Worthington and graduated from the University of Minnesota before being drafted into the...
