Drawing on OâBrienâs experience of cancer and of childhood abuse, and on his ongoing collaboration with a war reporter, the four essays in A Story that Happensâfirst written as craft lectures for the Sewanee Writersâ Conference and the US Air Force Academyâoffer hard-won insights into what stories are for and the reasons why, "afraid and hopeful," we begin to tell them.
Drawing on OâBrienâs experience of cancer and of childhood abuse, and on his ongoing collaboration with a war reporter, the four essays in A Story that Happensâfirst written as craft lectures for the Sewanee Writersâ Conference and the US Air Force Academyâoffer hard-won insights into what stories are for and the reasons why, "afraid and hopeful," we begin to tell them.