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 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 ...

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 ...

"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, ...

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, ...