In his award-winning book on the War in Vietnam,The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien blends fact with fiction because as he confesses “it’s difficult to separate what happened from what seemed to happen . . . there is always that surreal seemingness, which makes the story seem untrue, but which in fact represents the hard […]
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Reviewing Tim O’Brien’s In the Lake of the Woods
Every chair in the four-hundred plus seat auditorium on the campus of Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, FL was filled, Saturday evening January 18, 2014 to hear a reading by Vietnam veteran and award-winning author Tim O’Brien. There was not a dry eye in the room when he finished his selection “How to Tell a […]
Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried: A Review
Vietnam is still with us in the sense that for some people how you view that war is a defining indicator of who you are. I did not go to Vietnam, and I was active in the anti-war movement in Albany, NY where I was living at the time, although I never joined in those […]
Eckerd College Writers Conference Wrap-Up
I suspect few, if any, of the eight dozen “students” who attended the eight-day Eckerd College Writers Conference, went away dissatisfied. That, in and of itself, is remarkable and a testimony to the conference organizers and staff. While many of the students may have experienced a twinge of dissatisfaction when contemplating the status of their […]
Report on Day 2 of the Eckerd College Writers Conference
The Writers in Paradise Conference began officially this morning with welcome messages by the co-directors and a presentation by last night’s reading series author Tim O’Brien. Later we attended our first workshop with Lori Roy where we dissected the first two writers’ submissions and in the evening heard Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic River, Shutter […]