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In two different interviews you quote Flannery O'Connor's saying: "Anyone who survives adolescence has enough material to write about for the rest of his life." What is it about the experiences of ...
Tobias Wolff wishes he could say that reading Thomas Mann started him out on the road to becoming an author. He remembers reading an interview with Susan Sontag in which she talked about reading Mann ...
Today she talks with Tobias Wolff, the author of This Boy's Life. His memoir of a difficult childhood was turned into a Robert DeNiro movie.
Wolff would know. The power of ”This Boy’s Life” stems from its author’s willingness to expose his own falseness — the extravagant lengths to which the young Tobias went in his effort to ...
EXCLUSIVE: Jonathan Keasey, the scribe behind Danielle Deadwyler’s Parallel and Demi Lovato’s Tow, has signed on to adapt The Barracks Thief, a novella from award-winning author Tobias Wolff.
PALO ALTO — Tobias Wolff is cracking up a lecture hall full ... who doesn’t let on that he is a marquee literary name, the author of the seminal 1989 memoir “This Boy’s Life.” ...
AND WHAT THE NIGHT WILL BE LIKE. >> WE ARE WELCOMING AUTHOR TOBIAS WOLFE. IT IS AN EVENT WE HAVE HOSTED THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS TO RAISE MONEY FOR PROGRAMS AND SERVICES TO HELP PUBLIC LIBRARIES.
There’s a snowstorm heading for New York this weekend—perfect weather for reading Tobias Wolff. It’s not just that many of Wolff’s stories take place in winter (though my favorite ...
I’d like to strongly recommend that you listen to this month’s fiction podcast, in which Tobias Wolff reads Denis Johnson’s story, “Emergency,” which appeared in the magazine in 1991 ...