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Known for his novel The Things They Carried, O Brien is now the subject of a new documentary, The War and Peace of Tim O Brien. When he became a father in his late 50s, he initially feared parenthood would curtail his writing." Much as Vietnam did, [parenthood] gave me a body of material, that kind of context to write about," he says. "Maybe it s biology just keeping the species going, but I feel that I m part of something age-old that s going to continue long after I m gone."Also, Maureen Corrigan reviews the true crime book Two Truths and a Lie, about a botched execution and a quest for justice.
Maureen Corrigan, book critic for NPR s
Fresh Air, is The Nicky and Jamie Grant Distinguished Professor of the Practice in Literary Criticism at Georgetown University. She is an associate editor of and contributor to
Mystery and Suspense Writers (Scribner) and the winner of the 1999 Edgar Award for Criticism, presented by the Mystery Writers of America. In 2019, Corrigan was awarded the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing by the National Book Critics Circle.
Corrigan served as a juror for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. Her book So We Read On: How The Great Gatsby Came To Be and Why It Endures was published by Little, Brown in September 2014. Corrigan is represented by Trinity Ray at The Tuesday Lecture Agency: trinity@tuesdayagency.com
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Vendela Vida s novel centers on four 13-year-old girls who are perched on the edge of adulthood and the recognition that some things they do or say now will change who they become as adults.