Tim O'Brien, author of The Things They Carried, was in Missoula October 28th to give the keynote address for The Big Read. The Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts designed to restore reading to the center of American culture. Chérie Newman, producer of The Write Question, talked with him about the event, and his writing.
O'Brien spoke about his book, and writing about war, on October 28th at8 o’clock in the Dennison Theater. This event, was co-sponsored by the Missoula Public Library and the University of Montana.