Tobias Wolff is our great chronicler of liars. His seminal memoir, This Boy's Life, began with an epigraph from Oscar Wilde: ... "Awaiting Orders," we meet Sergeant Morse, ...

Tobias Wolff calls my parents’ house in Amarillo, Texas, leaves a message: I’ve been admitted to the Syracuse Creative Writing Program. I call back, holding Back in the World in my hands. For ...

For some 20 years now, with subtlety and with passion, Tobias Wolff has been writing the stories that move him, the ones that, in his words, “want to be written.” Acts of wounding and s… ...

"Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories" by Tobias Wolff Knopf, 379 pp., ... “Awaiting Orders,” about a gay Army sergeant weighing his options in the “don’t ask, ...

PREVIEW This Writer's Life: Saved by Stories What: Author Tobias Wolff kicks off University School's 2009-10 Distin guished Speaker Series. When: 7:30 p.m. Tuesday. Where: University School's ...

Tobias Wolff is a master story writer, whose name should be mentioned alongside Raymond Carver’s in any account of the short story’s much-noted 1980s renaissance. Unlike Carver, Mr. Wolff is still ...

Mark Sanderson reviews Our Story Begins by Tobias Wolff. The dust jacket of Our Story Begins is covered with cobwebs; this proves apt in several ways. ... Sergeant Morse, in Awaiting Orders, ...