Local Author Tim O'Brien Wins Lifetime Achievement Award

'The Things They Carried' author on life, fiction, and truth

"...The Austin Chronicle caught up recently with Tim O’Brien, an Austin-based author perhaps best known for The..."

Nov. 14, 2013 Books Post by R.U. Steinberg

Tim O'Brien's Love Letter to His Sons

In Dad's Maybe Book, the author of Going After Cacciato is going after fatherhood

"...of a French resort that, in this American family's estimation, fits like a stranger's overpriced suit. Two shiny boys..."

Oct. 25, 2019 Arts Feature by Joe O'Connell

Tim O'Brien at SWT

in person

"...For those unfamiliar with novelist Tim O'Brien, my condolences...."

Oct. 8, 1999 Books Feature by Sarah Hepola

Tim O'Brien's In the Lake of the Woods Rage of Innocence

"...sensitive a chord in the national psyche. Vietnam veteran Tim O'Brien's In the Lake of the Woods (Penguin, $10.95,..."

Jan. 12, 1996 Books Feature

The Things He Carried: Tim O'Brien's archives find a home

The Harry Ransom Center announces the acquisition of Vietnam scribe Tim O'Brien's archives

"...of National Book Award winner and frequent Vietnam scribe Tim O'Brien's archives. O'Brien, who teaches writing up the road..."

Dec. 14, 2007 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

Food-o-File

"...or a soccer squad; it was Bertram's chef Peter O'Brien and his groomsmen. "We're all Scotch-Irish," explained the bridegroom,..."

Dec. 20, 1996 Food Column

Food-O-File

"...dishes in November are Mustang Diner's Mark Oster (11-1), Tim Kartiganer from Mars (11-8), Rocky Packard of Coyote Cafe..."

Nov. 10, 1995 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Food-O-File

"...turnovers can contact Dodson at 499-0442 for recommendations... Next time you're looking for a great quick meal in the..."

July 26, 1996 Food Column

Telling War Stories

National Book Award winner and SWT professor Tim O'Brien is real. He's blunt. But he's also, according to Chronicle editor Sarah Hepola, responsible for her hangover.

"...Tim O'Brien made me do it...."

April 28, 2000 Books Feature by Sarah Hepola

A Change of Taste

Bertram's Cooks Under New Chef Tim O'Brien

"...Hoopingarner said yes, he had just hired chef Peter O'Brien to replace Craig Sullivan. My review instantly became obsolete...."

Jan. 19, 1996 Food Feature

The Twenty-Fourth International Tournee of Animation

"...heading up the lot. Berry was head puppeteer on Tim Burton's “The Nightmare Before Christmas,” and “The Sandman” resembles..."

April 15, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

In Person

"...Tim O'Brien at Book People..."

Nov. 13, 1998 Books Feature

Faster Than Sound: Blood Goes Big, Free Week Contracts

In the ATX music news: punk poetics by local septet Blood, January’s Free Week dates, and the Live Music Fund’s first feedback

"...transformed into a sevenpiece, a smaller assemblage required vocalist Tim O'Brien to play guitar. Unleashed contemporaneously by the support..."

Dec. 27, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Old Settler's Music Festival Interviews

Talking bluegrass with five OSMF headliners and a Dripping Springs dweller

"...Watson. He was always so in tune and in time...."

April 17, 2015 Music Feature

Postscripts

Upcoming literary events in Austin.

"...History Center's Web site at http://www.ci.Austin.tx.us/library/lbahc.htm ... SWT professor Tim O'Brien's final lecture of the year takes place on..."

March 31, 2000 Books Column by Clay Smith

Old Settler’s Music Festival: Saturday

Peak day for a peak year

"...Springs, and the year’s best weather, and a good time was had by all...."

April 13, 2014 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Panoramic Voices’ Bach: Mass in B Minor

Director Brent Baldwin and his chorus made this work of pure uplift – rousing to sing, delightful to hear – a joy to experience

"...Bach's Mass ebbs and flows in its voluminousness and intimacy, and the contrasts, movement to movement, can take the..."

Aug. 18, 2017 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

This new animated comedy is a brilliantly conceived and executed bit of Brit wit, perfect for both kids and their parents and anyone even remotely interested in laughing themselves silly.

"...with the CGI animation, Disney, DreamWorks, et al.: Between Tim Burton’s smashingly fine Corpse Bride and this excellent new..."

Oct. 7, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Faculty

"...stories: The Source of Trouble, winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, and A Wild, Cold State...."

May 22, 1998 Books Feature

News/Print

This editorial content is brought to you by the Steve Miller Band. And … I'm having job dreams.

"...the reason why. Others assembling will be Jim Hightower, who'll also be reading from and signing his new Thieves..."

Sept. 5, 2003 Books Column by Shawn Badgley

2002 Texas Book Festival Schedule

"...1-2:15pm CExt. #E2.014My First Time: New Authors Greg Garrett, Stephen Graham Jones, Diana López,..."

Nov. 15, 2002 Books Feature

Southwest Texas State University

"...Peirce, Debra Monroe, Cyrus Cassells, Dagoberto Gilb, Steve Wilson, Tim O' Brien, Roger Jones, and in particular to the..."

April 21, 2000 Books Feature by Barbara Strickland

Leffingwell Announces Book Club Picks

Two books explore war at home and abroad

"...Fallon's You Know When the Men Are Gone and Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried...."

Feb. 11, 2011 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

Bluegrass Up in Her Head

On another Old Settler's weekend, festival perennial Sarah Jarosz is out of braces and into big-time bluegrass

"...cannot be understated in telling their daughter's story. Anyone who's met them basks in the joy they radiate. They're..."

April 17, 2009 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

We Are Now Beginning Our Descent

A war journalist's time in Iraq proves food for novelistic thought.

"...hell. It's a lesson learned from the likes of Tim O'Brien, whose masterful 1978 novel, Going After Cacciato, still..."

June 6, 2008 Books Review by Dan Oko

Great Expectations

Sarah Jarosz returns to her roots – the Old Settler's Music Festival

"...Stone Moun­tain Event Center, she watched picking/singing super duo Tim O'Brien and Darrell Scott – playing the Bluebonnet stage..."

April 11, 2014 Music Feature by Abby Johnston

Tim O'Brien & Darrell Scott

"...Tim O'Brien & Darrell ScottMemories and Moments (Full Skies)..."

April 11, 2014 Music Review by Michael Toland

Pick-Me-Up Hoedown

The 17th annual Old Settler's Music Festival: no waterfall, but a cascade of acoustic and bluegrass music nonetheless

"...the setting at Telluride is a spectacular one for Colorado's premier bluegrass festival, with its waterfall, surrounding mountains, and..."

April 16, 2004 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

News/Print

Talk amongst yourselves.

"...this week from the Associated Writing Programs conference in Baltimore with a feeling best described as bittersweet. "They're just..."

March 7, 2003 Books Column by Shawn Badgley

Upcoming ...

We survey the landscape of upcoming literary events and author appearances.

"...Mitte Chair in Creative Writing. Ai, taking over for Tim O'Brien, will give a reading in the fall and..."

July 19, 2002 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

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