Dan O’Brien is a playwright, poet, and nonfiction writer. In 2023, he published a poetry collection, Survivor’s Notebook (Acre Books); a memoir, From Scarsdale (Dalkey Archive Press); and a collection of plays, True Story: A Trilogy (Dalkey Archive Press).

Dan O’Brien

My Bird Today Promises a Story

LARB Lit

"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf

Memoir &amp; Essay

The Kentish Rebellion

The Drama of History, in Poems: On Robert Selby’s “The Kentish Rebellion”

"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw

History

"I have nothing to say, and I am saying it, and that is poetry." — John Cage

Poetry

Paul Watson is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author of three books, including the 2017 best seller Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition, and the memoir Where War Lives, published in 2007. For over a quarter-century, he was a foreign correspondent for the Los Angeles Times and The Toronto Star.

Paul Watson

Out of the War Zone: A Conversation Between Paul Watson and Dan O’Brien

"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins

Politics

Dan O’Brien is a playwright, poet, and nonfiction writer. In 2023, he published a poetry collection, Survivor’s Notebook (Acre Books); a memoir, From Scarsdale (Dalkey Archive Press); and a collection of plays, True Story: A Trilogy (Dalkey Archive Press).

Dan O’Brien

Articles

My Bird Today Promises a Story

The Drama of History, in Poems: On Robert Selby’s “The Kentish Rebellion”

Out of the War Zone: A Conversation Between Paul Watson and Dan O’Brien