“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 ...

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 ...

Tim O’Brien, author of “The Things They Carried,” an acclaimed collection of short stories about a troop of American soldiers in Vietnam, has visited the Roanoke Valley several times in the past. He ...

You have said that you don't have to be a soldier to know what fear is, or what loneliness is. What did you mean by that? "You don't have to have been in a war to know what it is to start thinking ...

Rural Remix is a podcast feed that cuts through rural stereotypes and misconceptions. Subscribe for early access to new series updates and new episodes alerts. The Good, the Bad, and the Elegy is a ...

Tim O’Brien was stuck writing another book when he took a break in the late 1980s and penned “The Things They Carried,” a story that explores meaning in three simple words: “This is true.” That ...

"I had the desire, but not the intention. It seemed like something someone from New York would do, or something like that. For a little kid, growing up in a little bitty town in the prairies of ...