Tim O'Brien: Selected Bibliography
PRIMARY SOURCES
Novels
Northern Lights. New York: Delacorte/Seymour Lawrence, 1975.
If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home. 1973. Reprint, New York: Dell, 1983.
Going After Cacciato. 1978. Reprint, New York: Dell, 1989.
The Things They Carried. 1990. Reprint, New York: Penguin, 1991.
The Nuclear Age. 1985. Reprint, New York: Dell, 1993.
In the Lake of the Woods. 1994. Reprint, New York: Penguin, 1995.
Tomcat in Love. Newford: Broadway, 1998.
Selected Essays and Short Fiction
"The Vietnam Veteran: Prisoners of Peace." Penthouse (March 1974): 44+.
"Darkness on the Edge of Town." Feature (January 1979): 42-9.
"The Violent Vet." Esquire (December 1979): 96-104.
"We're Adjusted Too Well." In The Wounded Generation: American After Vietnam, ed. A.D. Horne, 205-7.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1981.
"The Magic Show." In Writers on Writing, ed. Robert Pack and Jay Parini, 175-83. London: University
Press of New England, 1991.
"Loon Point." Esquire (January 1993): 91-4.
"The Vietnam in Me." New York Times Magazine (2 October 1994): 48-57.
"Faith." New Yorker (12 February 1996): 62-7.
SECONDARY SOURCES
Books and Parts of Books About O'Brien
Beidler, Philip D. American Literature and the Experience of Vietnam. Athens, GA: University of Georgia
Press, 1982. 99-105 and 172-9+.
---------. Re-writing America: Vietnam Writers in Their Generation. Athens, GA: University of Georgia
Press, 1991. 28-37+.
Christopher, Renny. The Viet Nam War, The American War. Amherst, MA: University Press of
Massachusetts, 1995. 229-35+.
Hellman, John. American Myth and the Legacy of Vietnam. New York: Columbia University Press, 1986.
160-7+.
Herzog, Tobey C. Tim O'Brien. Ed. Frank Day. TUSAS 691. New York: Twayne, 1997.
Melling, Philip H. Vietnam in American Literature. Boston: Twayne, 1990.
Myers, Thomas Robert. Walking Point: American Narratives of Vietnam. New York: Oxford University
Press, 1988. 76-89 and 171-85+.
Ringnalda, Don. Fighting and Writing the Vietnam War. Jackson, Miss.: University Press of Mississippi,
1994. 90-114.
Articles and Reviews
Bates, Milton J. "Men, Women, and Vietnam." In America Rediscovered: Critical Essays on the Literature
and Film of the Vietnam War, ed. Owen Gilman Jr. and Lorrie Smith, 27-63. New York: Garland,
1990.
----------. "Tim O'Brien' Myth of Courage." Modern Fiction Studies 33 (Summer 1987): 263-79.
Bonn, Maria S. "Can Stories Save Us? Tim O'Brien and the Efficacy of the Text." Critique 36 (Fall 1994):
11-15.
Calloway, Catherine. " 'How to Tell a True War Story': Metafiction in The Things They Carried." Critique
36 (Summer 1995): 249-57.
Kaplan, Steve. "The Undying Uncertainty of the Narrator in Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried."
Critique 35 (Fall 1993): 43-52.
Smith, Lorrie. " 'The Things Men Do': Gender Subtext in Tim O'Brien's Esquire Stories." Critique 36 (Fall
1994): 16-39.
Full Text Articles on Infotrac
Chen, Tina. " 'Unraveling the Deeper Meaning': Exile and the Embodied Poetics of Displacement in Tim
O'Brien's The Things They Carried." Contemporary Literature 39 (Spring 1998): 77 (22).
Coffey, Michael. "Tim O'Brien: Inventing a New Form Helps the Author Talk About War, Memory, and
Storytelling." Publishers Weekly 237 (16 February 1990): 60 (2).
Interviews
Bruckner, D.J.R. "A Storyteller for the War That Won't End." New York Times (3 April 1990): C15+.
McCaffery, Larry. "Interview with Tim O'Brien." Chicago Review 33 (1982): 129-149.
Schroeder, Eric James. "Two Interviews: Talks with Tim O'Brien and Robert Stone." Modern Fiction Studies
30 (Spring 1984): 135-64.
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