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Overheard with Evan Smith

Tim O’Brien Q&A

Tim O’Brien is an award-winning novelist, whose works include The Things They Carried and Going After Cacciato (which won the 1979 National Book Award in fiction). In 2013 he was awarded the Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing. He was recently a co-writer on the Vietnam episodes of the NBC series This is Us. His latest book is Dad’s Maybe Book.

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