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Partial Bibliography - Tim O'Brien

(Some of the citations are incomplete or incorrect, especially for the following section. This is meant as a guide to locating material, not a guide on citation!)

PRIMARY SOURCES

Short Fiction and Published Excerpts

"Class of '68" Esquire (March 1998):160.

"Faith" New Yorker (February 12, 1996):62-67. (excerpt prior to Tomcat in Love with variations)

"Half Gone" New Yorker (July 8, 2002):66-71. (excerpt prior to July, July)

"Little People" Esquire (October 2001) (excerpt prior to July, July)

"Loon Point" Esquire (January 1995):91-94.

"Nogales" New Yorker (March 8, 1999): 69-73. (excerpt prior to July, July)

"The People We Marry" The Atlantic Monthly (January 1992):90-98. (excerpt prior to In the Lake of the Woods with variations)

"The Streak" New Yorker (September 28 , 1998): 88-91. (excerpt prior to July, July)

"Too Skinny" New Yorker (September 10, 2001): 92-100 (excerpt prior to July, July)

"Winnipeg" New Yorker (August 14, 2000): 72-77 (excerpt prior to July, July)

[excerpt from TTTC, probably "The Rainy River"] Editors Marc Vinz and Thom Tammaro, 1993 anthology described in Pioneer Press, title of anthology unknown

[unknown] "Flash Fiction: 75 Very Short Stories." ed. James Thomas, Denise Thomas, and Tom Hazuka. Norton, 1992.

[unknown] "The Oxford Book of Adventure Stories." ed, Joseph Bristow. Oxford University Press. [1995?]

[excerpt from TTTC] "The Perimeter of Light." ed. Vivian Vie Balfour. Minneapolis: New Rivers Press, 1992.

[unknown] "You've Got to Read This." ed. Ron Hansen and Jim Shepard. HarperPerennial, 1994.

Essays and Nonfiction

"The Vietnam in Me." New York Times 2 Oct. 1994, sec. Magazine: 48+.

"The Crumbling of Sand Castles." Washington Post 18 Nov. 1973: C1, C5.

"July's People." New York Magazine 22 June 1981: 64-65. (Review of July's People by Nadine Gordimer)

"The Magic Show." "Writers on Writing." ed. Robert Pack and Jay Parini. Middlebury College Press (New Hampshire), 1991 (?)

"Medals! Medals! Everyone's Got Medals." Los Angeles Times 18 Mar. 1973, sec. VI: 1+.

Audiovisual Materials

"In the Lake of the Woods" Fox TV, 1996

SECONDARY SOURCES

Interviews

"4 Writers Try to Make Sense of the Vietnam-Book Boom." New York Times 4 Aug. 1987, sec. C: 17.

"Author O'Brien's Watergate Role Revealed." St. Paul Pioneer Press Dispatch 4 Apr. 1990, AM Metro Final ed., sec. Express: 2D. Mercury Center/America Online.

"Fighting Words." St. Paul Pioneer Press 30 Apr. 1995, Metro Final ed., sec. Showtime: 2E. Mercury Center/America Online.

"Secret Life of Tim O'Brien." St. Paul Pioneer Press 17 Oct. 1994, Metro Final ed., sec. Express: 1C+. Mercury Center/America Online.

"The Truth of Our Lives is Extremely Fragile." A Penguin Reading Group Guide

Becker, Ken. "Vietnam era shapes what writer writes about." The Windsor Star (Canada) 2 Feb. 1995, Final ed., sec. Express: X31. DataTimes/Canadian Sources.

Blades, John. "Prisoners of War." Chicago Tribune 9 Dec. 1994, sec. Tempo: 1-2.

Caldwell, Gail. "Staying True to Vietnam." Boston Globe 29 Mar. 1990, Third ed., sec. Living: 69. Mercury Center/America Online.

Carlin, Margaret. "Vietnam Will Always be One Thing Tim O'Brien Carries." Rocky Mountain News (Denver) 20 Nov. 1994, Final ed., sec. Spotlight: 79A. Mercury Center/America Online.

Capuzzo, Mike. "A Novelist's Inner War." Philadelphia Inquirer 27 Oct. 1994, Final ed., sec. Features Magazine/People: G01+. Mercury Center/America Online.

Cryer, Dan. "Talking with Tim O'Brien: Goodbye to All That" Newsday 16 Oct. 1994, sec. Fanfare: 32. Newsday Direct/Prodigy.

Devine, Mary. "Love and War in the Land o' Lakes." MPLS-St. Paul Magazine Oct. 1994: 179.

Getlin, Josh. "Vietnam and WWII: Myths and Memories." Los Angeles Times 09 Apr. 1995, Home ed.: A-1. Times-Link/Prodigy

Grossmann, Mary Ann. "Reality Doesn't Matter." St. Paul Pioneer Press Dispatch 11 Mar. 1990, AM Metro Final ed., sec. Arts and Entertainment: 1D. Mercury Center/America Online.

Hintz, Martin. "O'Brien Launches New Blockbuster Novel." Irish American Post Nov. 1994. Internet.

Jones, Vanessa E. "Sorrows Shadow O'Brien's Success." The Commercial Appeal (Memphis TN) 27 Nov. 1994, Final ed., sec. Fanfare: G4.

Kahn, Joseph P. "The Things He Carries." Boston Globe 19 Oct. 1994, Third ed., sec. Living: 69+. Mercury Center/America Online.

Lannon, Linnea. "In War, Reality Becomes Surreal." Detroit Free Press 17 Apr. 1991, Metro Final ed., sec. WWL: 3E+. Mercury Center/America Online.

Leepson, Marc. "The Dark Side of the Heart." The VVA Veteran Dec. 1994, 17+

Leepson, Marc. "If I Write About a Combat Zone." The VVA Veteran Sep. 1987, 29+.

McNerney, Brian C. "Responsibly Inventing History: An Interview with Tim O'Brien." War, Literature, & the Arts 2 (1994): 1- 26.

Mort, John. "The Booklist Interview." Booklist Aug. 1994: 1990-1991.

Muro, Mark. "Believer in the Grand Theme." Boston Globe 10 Oct. 1985: 85-86.

Muro, Mark. "Processed Words." Boston Globe 31 Jan. 1992, Third ed., sec. Living: 21. Mercury Center/America Online.

Musarra, Russ. "Prose, By One Who Knows." Akron Beacon Journal 22 Sep. 1991, 1 Star ed., Life Style: C9. Mercury Center/America Online.

Randle, Nancy. "'Lake' Wades into One of Our Watershed Events." Chicago Tribune 3 Mar. 1996, sec., TV Week. Chicago Tribune/ America Online.

Reilly, Patty. "Vietnam Grunt Tim O'Brien Gets Decorated on Literary Front." People Magazine, 14 May 1979: 110.

Rosenberg, Howard. "Break Out the Popcorn for PBS' 'Cinema'." Los Angeles Times 23 Jan. 1995, Home ed., sec. Calendar: F-1. Times-Link/Prodigy

Shostak, Debra. "Artful Dodge Interviews Tim O'Brien." The Artful Dodge 1991, Vol. 17: 74-90.

Weber, Bruce. "War and Peace." Esquire Sep. 1985: 269.

Voves, Ed. "Life in a World of Never-Ending 'Nam." Philadelphia Daily News 25 Oct. 1994, PM ed., sec. Features Yo!: 36+. Mercury Center/America Online.

BOOK REVIEWS

"The Nuclear Age"

Zenowich, Chris. "'Nuclear Age' Hardly Explosive." Chicago Tribune 06 Oct. 1985, sec. Arts. Chicago Tribune Archives/America Online.

"The Things They Carried"

Caldwell, Gail. "Following the Point Man in a New Kind of War." Boston Globe 04 Mar. 1990, Third ed., sec. Books: B49. Mercury Center/America Online.

Wetherell, W.D. "Dubious Martyrdom." Chicago Tribune 11 Mar. 1990, sec. Tribune Books. Chicago Tribune Archives/America Online.

"In the Lake of the Woods"

Brinson, Claudia Smith. "Reader Left to Solve Many-Sided Mystery in the Lake of the Woods" The State (Columbia SC) 23 Oct. 1994, Final ed., sec. Tempo:F6. Prodigy

Crowther, Hal. "In the Lake of the Woods." Atlanta Journal and Constitution 27 Nov. 1994, sec. Arts: N(c)08. Access Atlanta/Prodigy

Eder, Richard. "Vanishing Act." Los Angeles Times 02 Oct. 1994, Home ed., sec. Book Review: 3. Times-Link/Prodigy.

Gutcheon, Beth. "The War Still with Us." San Jose Mercury News 09 Oct. 1994, Morning Final ed., sec. Books:1. Mercury Center/America Online.

Kakutani, Michiko. "A Novel with a Complex Strategy." New York Times (AOL) 07 Oct. 1994. New York Times/America Online.

Kerrigan, Michael. "Memories of War." Times Literary Supplement 21 Apr. 1995, 20.

Koeppel, Fredric. "Ponderously Written O'Brien Mystery Wastes Good Story." "The Commercial Appeal (Memphis TN) 30 Oct. 1994, Final ed., sec. Fanfare:G3. Prodigy

Lescaze, Lee. Wall Street Journal 3 Oct. 1994: A17.

Pate, Nancy. "A Story of Half-Life After Vietnam: O'Brien Gets Lost in Cloudy Characters." The Charlotte Observer 20 Nov. 1994, One-Four ed., sec. Bookweek.

Shields, David. "A Return Visit to the Subject of Vietnam." Philadelphia Inquirer 16 Oct. 1994, Final ed., sec. Features View: M01. Mercury Center/America Online.

Soloman, Andy. "Wade's World Falls Apart." Herald 02 Oct. 1994, Final ed., sec. Arts: 31. Tampa Bay Online /Prodigy.

Criticism

Adams, Leslie Kennedy. "Fragmentation in American and Vietnamese War Fiction." America's Wars in Asia: a cultural approach to history and memory. Ed. Philip West, Steven I. Levine, and Jackie Hiltz. Armonk: NY, ME Sharpe, 1998.

Bonn, Maria S. "Can Stories Save Us? Tim O'Brien and the Efficacy of the Text." Critique Fall 1994. 2-15.

Kaplan, Steven. "Understanding Tim O'Brien," Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1995.

Kaplan, Steven. "The Undying Uncertainty of the Narrator in Tim O'Brien's 'The Things They Carried.'" Critique Fall 1993. 43-52.

Kennedy, Leslie Carol. Ghosts Through the Looking Glass: Vietnam and Its Narrative Representation in the Novels of Heinemann, Herr, O'Brien, and Wright. Diss. Texas A&M U, 1995. Ann Arbor: UMI, 1995.

McCarron, Bill. "Heller, O'Brien and the Full-Circle and Primal Scene Syndromes," Then and Since: Perspectives on Vietnam. Monograph, ETSU Instructional Printing, 1996. 54-58.

Smith, Lorrie N. "The Things Men Do: The Gendered Subtext in Tim O'Brien's Esquire Stories." Critique Fall 1994. 16-40.

General Articles and Books

"Untitled." Chicago Tribune 18 May 1995, sec. Tempo. Chicago Tribune Archives. /America Online.

Leepson, Marc. "Those Who Forget the Past: Examining the My Lai Tragedy 25 Years After." VVA Veteran Jan. 1995. 15+

Grossman, Mary Ann. "Stranger than Fiction." St. Paul Pioneer Press Dispatch 14 Sep. 1990, AM Metro Final ed., sec. Showtime: 16D. Mercury Center/America Online.

Rosenberg, Howard. "Break Out the Popcorn for PBS' 'Cinema'." Los Angeles Times 23 Jan. 1995, Home ed., sec. Calendar: 1. Times-Link/Prodigy.

My Vietnam Related Websites:
Women in Vietnam ~ Not only nurses served . . .
Dusty's Home Page ~ Poetry and prose by a woman who was a nurse in Vietnam
Emily's Poetry ~ By a Red Cross Donut Dolly
Battle Dressing ~ The Journey of a Nurse in Vietnam
Tim O'Brien's Home Page ~ National Book Award Winner and Americal Vet
Shrapnel in the Heart ~ The most moving book you will read on Vietnam
The Irish on the Wall ~ An effort to locate the Irish who died in Vietnam
Project Hearts and Minds ~ Help put Viet Nam back together
All About Vietnam ~ An annotated bibliography of books about Vietnam for sale thru Amazon Worldwide!
Photos from a Holts' Military History Tour ~ My trip to Vietnam, February 1998
Illinois Vietnam Women's Memorial ~ Honoring all the Illinois women who served

My Other Websites:
Chicago Theatre Z - A ~ This is the best theater town in the country!
Writers Theatre of Chicago ~ And this is the best theater in town
Literature of the Korean War ~ Don't let the literature be forgotten
Poetry of the First World War ~ Owen, Hardy and others
Samuel Pepys ~ One of my favorite authors
Gil Thorp ~ THE Coach
Maybe Later . . . ~ My Creative Nonfiction
Chi-COW-go ~ Cowz plus Commentary (this used to be a cow town)
Graham Fulton, Scottish Poet ~ Charles Manson Auditions for the Monkees
Soccer Literature ~ I'm a fan and I read
O'Leary Lantern ~ Fire! Fire! Fire!

Other Important Websites:
PreviewPort.com ~ Connecting Authors and Writers Worldwide
Remember Oklahoma City ~ Civil Service and Military Employees will never forget

United States

United Kingdom

Germany

France


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