The Things They Carried
Tim O'Brien
General Resources:
Buy the book from bookshop.org
Brief biography from NEA Big Read
"Primary Source Sets: The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien" from DPLA
"The textual “truth” behind Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried" by John K. Young for Ransom Center Magazine
"The Things They Carried: Tim O’Brien’s Vietnam War Novel Endures" by Steve Moyer for EDSITEment
Critical Articles:
"'Excremental Assault' in Tim O'Brien: Trauma and Recovery in Vietnam War Literature" - David R. Jarraway
"Keeping the Dead Alive- Revising the Past in Tim O'Brien's War Stories" - Donna Pasternak
"Making Things Present: Tim O'Brien's Autobiographical Metafiction" - Robin Silbergleid
"The Role of the Ideal (Female) Reader in Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried: Why Should Real Women Play?" - Pamela Smiley
"Salvation, Storytelling, and Pilgrimage in Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried" - Alex Vernon
"Tim O'Brien and Gender: A Defense of The Things They Carried" - Susan Farrell
"Truth and Fiction in Tim O'Brien's If I Die in a Combat Zone and The Things They Carried" - Marilyn Wesley
"The Undying Uncertainty of the Narrator in Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried" - Steven Kaplan
Podcasts:
"The Things They Carried: In conversation with David L. Ulin" from ALOUD Podcast from Los Angeles Public Library
"'The Things They Carried,' 20 Years On" from Talk of the Nation by NPR
"Episode 158 'The Things They Carried' by Tim O'Brien" from The History of Literature Podcast
"The Things They Carried" from Required Reading
"War in Literature" from Velshi Banned Book Club from MSNBC
"Vietnam veteran Tim O'Brien on fictionalizing his war stories" from Bookends with Mattea Roach
Videos:
"Tim O’Brien Talks Impact of The Things They Carried and Inspiration for America Fantastica" from Late Night with Seth Meyers
Michael Verde discusses "The Things They Carried" with author Tim O'Brien from KSMQ Public Television
"Looking Back at the Vietnam War with Author, Veteran Tim O’Brien" for PBS News Hour
"Big Read KC: Tim O'Brien Interview" from Kansas City PBS
"Dialogue: Author Tim O'Brien" from Idaho Public Television
"Tim O'Brien: The Things They Carried" from The Kansas City Public Library
The War and Peace of Tim O'Brien - 2020 documentary directed by Aaron Matthews