Showing posts with label Tim O'Brien. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tim O'Brien. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Author Look-Alikes: Vol. 15

Ezra pound is supposed to have died years ago. But are we sure he isn’t running Cuba?


In the category of shaggy-headed, white-haired poets, I give you Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Walt Whitman:


Great smiles, bushy eyebrows, pushbroom mustaches… Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Juan Valdez are both a great credit to their Colombian homeland:


Hair chopped short and smiling eyes, here's Carson McCullers and Annette Benning:



Now, I threw the Kennedy Wildcasts “K” on Tim O’Brien’s hat. But I didn’t really have to. He’d still be a dead ringer for the gym coach in “The Wonder Years” (Robert Picardo). Neither of them seem to go anywhere without their ball caps:




Saturday, November 12, 2011

A War Story

It's not lost on us that with our site launching yesterday, Veterans Day got short shrift around here. So, for your weekend listening pleasure, we give you one of our favorite war stories: The Things They Carried, by Tim O'Brien.

This hour-long recording was originally made for PRI's Selected Shorts podcast. The reading is by Dylan Baker. Some foul language, but all in all, some awesome storytelling. Parts 1 through 7 below.