Tim O’Brien discusses The Things They Carried on the twentieth anniversary of its publication. The book remains a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling.
Event: Tim O'Brien will be reading, answering questions, and signing books
Monday, March 22, at 7:00 pm
Barnes & Noble, Union Square
33 East 17th Street
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Tim O’Brien
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Comments [6]
The groundpounders at My Lai may have gone through hell. What excuse did Kissinger or McNamara or Westmoreland gave?
Leonard,
Could you ask what he thinks about Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rove and Bush, who never went to the battle?
Thank you.
Is the search for WMD in Iraq comparable to the trumped up Gulf of Tonkin incident? It is still unclear about the role of faulty intelligence in the Iraq war -- many of our allies also believed it -- whereas it seems very clear that the Johnson administration very directly manipulated the incident as their justification.
Without letting the Bush administration off the hook, I'm not sure the two are as comparable as the guest implies.
The Things They Carried has stayed with me for twenty years. I've read it five or six times, maybe more. I haven't been in a war, but something about it grabbed me in the way that very little fiction does (Kazuo Ishiguro and Cormac McCarthy do, too).
read this in college... my used copy was from kent state, ironically enough. loved the book and ive reread it a few times since. what are some of mr obriens favorite military works both books and film?
What does Mr. O'Brien think of the literature coming out from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan?
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