Tim O’Brien, author of The Things We Carried, will be a featured keynote speaker at this year’s Words & Music: A Literary Feast in New Orleans. Learn more about O’Brien at WordsandMusic.org

Thirty five years after the conclusion of the Vietnam War, The Things We Carried, a fascinating account about an American platoon, is being reissued as it celebrates its own 20th anniversary. In this PBS interview, Jeffrey Brown talks to the author about the experiences that led him to write the book: