By — Molly Finnegan Molly Finnegan Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/wednesday-on-the-newshour-writer-tim-obrien Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Wednesday on the NewsHour: Tim O’Brien’s ‘The Things They Carried’ Turns 20 Arts Apr 28, 2010 3:23 PM EDT Wednesday on the NewsHour, a book about war that has stood the test of time, read today by students in classrooms across the nation. Jeffrey Brown talks to Tim O’Brien about his landmark work, “The Things They Carried,” a piece of fiction based on the author’s experience serving in the Vietnam War. That work marks its 20th anniversary this year. We’ll post that video when it becomes available later this evening. Jeff also talked to O’Brien about how he started writing as a young man, and whether he’d be a writer today if he hadn’t served in Vietnam: Watch O’Brien read an excerpt from “The Things They Carried”: We're not going anywhere. Stand up for truly independent, trusted news that you can count on! Donate now By — Molly Finnegan Molly Finnegan
Wednesday on the NewsHour, a book about war that has stood the test of time, read today by students in classrooms across the nation. Jeffrey Brown talks to Tim O’Brien about his landmark work, “The Things They Carried,” a piece of fiction based on the author’s experience serving in the Vietnam War. That work marks its 20th anniversary this year. We’ll post that video when it becomes available later this evening. Jeff also talked to O’Brien about how he started writing as a young man, and whether he’d be a writer today if he hadn’t served in Vietnam: Watch O’Brien read an excerpt from “The Things They Carried”: We're not going anywhere. Stand up for truly independent, trusted news that you can count on! Donate now