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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. by [Alicia Dietrich / Harry Ransom Center](https://time.com/author/harry-ransom-center/) ## Alicia Dietrich / Harry Ransom Center Nov 18, 2015 9:00 PM UTC by [Alicia Dietrich / Harry Ransom Center](https://time.com/author/harry-ransom-center/) ## Alicia Dietrich / Harry Ransom Center Nov 18, 2015 9:00 PM UTC  _This post is in partnership with the_ [_Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin_](http://www.hrc.utexas.edu)_. A version of the article below was originally published on the_ [_Ransom Center’s Cultural Compass blog._ ](http://budurl.com/n7h8) This year marks the 25th anniversary of the publication of Tim O’Brien’s _The Things They Carried_, a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling. The book depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and the character Tim O’Brien, who survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of 43.  Manuscript page from "Stockings" chapter of The Things They Carried, hand-corrected by Tim O'Brien Harry Ransom Center The Ransom Center [acquired the archive](http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/press/releases/2007/obrien.html) of the National Book Award–winning writer in 2007, and a [finding aid](http://research.hrc.utexas.edu:8080/hrcxtf/view?docId=ead/00469.xml) for the collection is available online. Also, [read](http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/reflect/2008/obrien/) what O’Brien has to say about his papers residing at the Ransom Center. O’Brien received the 1979 National Book Award in fiction for _Going After Cacciato_. His other works include the novel _July, July_ and _In the Lake of the Woods_, which received the James Fenimore Cooper Prize from the Society of American Historians and was named the best novel of 1994 by TIME. 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