“A revelatory, insightful, and deeply moving biography of one of the most important authors of our time.” That’s what filmmaker Ken Burns has to say about Hendrix College professor Alex Vernon’s ...

America Fantastica, the latest and perhaps last book by Austin novelist Tim O’Brien, yanks off the Vietnam War writer tag that has long dogged the author of Going After Cacciato and The Things They ...

The Grand Forks Public Library and the Northern Great Plains History Conference will present a discussion from 2 to 4 today with Robin David about how UND incorporates the Tim O'Brien book, "The ...

Twenty years had come and gone since Tim O’Brien last released a novel, so when “America Fantastica” was published in October, many of his fans were as surprised as they were pleased. They’d had good ...

Lies come in all different forms. When their aim is malevolent, to harm and exploit, we call them deceptions, hoaxes or scams. The lies we tell mostly to ourselves are delusions or, more generously, ...

Fact and fiction blend in Tim O’Brien’s collection of stories about the Vietnam War. A character named “Tim O’Brien” fights alongside his comrades, while another soldier tells a story that gets ...

A new biography of Tim O’Brien examines his formative time at war and the esteemed literary career that followed. By Scott Anderson Scott Anderson is a contributing writer for The New York Times ...

America has been infected by “mythomania,” also known as “the lying disease,” which injects new but dangerous life into our reality. People can claim anything is true and the word spreads, believed by ...

Tim O’Brien, whose latest novel, a contemporary satire, is “America Fantastica,” just out this month in trade paperback, in coversation with host Richard Wolinsky, recorded at Book Passage on November ...

The Texas State Capitol is currently playing host to an impeachment trial that will surely inspire investigative books (and maybe a bodice ripper?), but by November, its grounds will be used for a ...