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More about Okay for Now:

“The Dump” is what Doug Swieteck calls his new home in upstate New York. It is 1968, Vietnam War veterans are returning, Apollo space missions to the moon are underway, but the biggest event for Doug is learning about the plates of John James Audubon’s birds in a book under glass at the local library. Doug, who first appeared in the author’s Newbery Honor book The Wednesday Wars, discovers the transforming power of art over disaster.

More about Gary Schmidt:

Gary Schmidt is a professor of English at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He received both a Newbery Honor and a Printz Honor for Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy and a Newbery Honor for The Wednesday Wars. He lives with his family on a one-hundred-fifty-year-old farm in Alto, Michigan, where he splits wood, plants gardens, writes, and feeds the wild cats that drop by.

On Wednesday, March 24, 2010, Tim O’Brien met with students from Cardozo High School in Washington, D.C. He was joined by Nate Fick, the author of One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer, to discuss writing and their mutual combat experiences (O’Brien served in Vietnam, Fick in Iraq and Afghanistan).

After O’Brien read a passage from The Things They Carried, the two authors answered questions from Cardozo’s students—and other questions submitted online from students across the United States. Their conversation was broadcast live over the Internet, where it was viewed by more than 300 schools—and is now available for viewing at any time.

(This video lasts approximately 52 minutes.)

Watch Chris Van Allsburg interact with students and answer questions from around the country!

Watch it here.