“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 ...

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 ...

When writer and Vietnam veteran Tim O’Brien, best known for the 1990 short story cycle “The Things They Carried,” finally relented and agreed to a biography, he cautioned that there would be little of ...