"How to Tell a True War Story": Metafiction in "The Things They Carried"
This essay by Catherine Calloway appeared in Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction. Calloway argues that "the stories become epistemological tools, multidimensional windows thr…
Author Profile: Tim O'Brien
Bookreporter.com briefly profiles the author and offers an interview from 1998.
Interview with Tim O'Brien: From Life to Fiction
Lighthouse Writers interview by Karen Rosica.
The Heart Under Stress: Interview with Author Tim O'Brien
Gadfly Magazine interview with Tim O'Brien by James Lindbloom.
The Things He Carries
Interview of Tim O'Brien by Julia Hanna that appeared in Harvard's Kennedy School Bulletin.
Tim O'Brien - An Introduction to His Writing
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 popu…
Tim O'Brien and the Art of the True War Story: "Night March" and "Speaking of Courage"
Full text of the critical essay from Twentieth Century Literature by John H. Timmerman. (Spring 2000)
Tim O'Brien Talks with Robert Birnbaum
A Robert Birnbaum interview with novelist Tim O'Brien for IdentityTheory.com, posted November 5, 2002.