The Stories Of Tobias Wolff by Tobias Wolff

When we spoke we were each on summer vacation, each by a lake looking out on the water. Tobias Wolff and I met for the first time during the telephone calls that were this interview. The result is an intensely compassionate, rich and wry prose style that shows us ourselves in all our graceless glory. Tobias Wolff watches himself and the world from a certain distance-always observing, taking it in, piecing things together.

The Night in Question-Wolff’s newest collection of stories just out from Knopf, once again puts us in the hands of a master-craftsman. I studied that book top to bottom, backwards and forwards, along with the volumes that followed: Back in the World (1986), The Barracks Thief (1984), and his two stunning memoirs This Boy’s Life (1988) and In Pharaoh’s Army (1994). Tobias Wolff was the man who had mastered the story, who knew how to contain and control it and simultaneously, when to let it run. His first story collection published in 1981, In The Garden of the North American Martyrs was the handbook for aspiring writers. Intricate and highly compressed, Tobias Wolff’s explorations of our emotional and moral infrastructure are psychological travelogues, beginning in one place and ending in another. His is the taut, trim, prose of an athlete. The Best of Broadway, On and Off.by Stuart Spencer The Tarrugiz on Fifth Avenueby Carlos Brillembourg Suzannah Lessard and Honor Mooreby Betsy SusslerĬity Terrace Field Manualby Sesshu Foster

The Stories Of Tobias Wolff by Tobias Wolff