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 ...

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 ...

“Mythomania — or plain old lying — infiltrated churches, schools, hair salons, corporate boardrooms, courtrooms, and nightclubs.” So Tim O’Brien describes the state of things in “America Fantastica,” ...

“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 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 ...

Your writing seems more like non-fiction than fiction. Can you explain that. "As a fiction writer, I do not write just about the world we live in, but I also write about the world we ought to live in, ...

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 ...