Tobias Wolff

Tobias Wolff

Dictionary Quotes (Free subscription) | yesterday

“We are made to persist. That’s how we find out who we are.” Tobias Wolff quotes

Bullet in the Brain

LEMON HOUND (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009

It happens we are discussing this story in my workshop next week. It's from Tobias Wolff, not in general a favorite author of the Hound's, but it's a great story, and among other things, it always reminds me to think about what, and how, I am thinking. You can hear it on the New Yorker read by T. Coraghessan Boyle, or here is a short film based on the story: I give you part 2 first There is a

Addition by Subtraction

Rake's Progress (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009

Good stuff from Dan Green, as usual. Among those American writers who were originally identified as "minimalists," a group that would include Raymond Carver, Bobbie Ann Mason, Ann Beattie, and Tobias Wolff, Mary Robison may have been the most minimalist...

Dashed to the Ground

The Reading Experience (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009

Among those American writers who were originally identified as "minimalists," a group that would include Raymond Carver, Bobbie Ann Mason, Ann Beattie, and Tobias Wolff, Mary Robison may have been the most minimalist of them all--or, to use the word...

best book of short stories I've ever found

The Aristocrats (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009

don't remember how I happen to have a copy, but every couple years I run out of stuff to read and pick this book off my shelf. usually end up rereading most if not all of it, marveling at how good it is. if you have a fav book of short stories, please leave a note in comments. The Best American Short Stories, 1994 -Tobias Wolff, editor . a sentence I said out loud tonight, "Goofy get your nose...

Short Story Shop Talk

The Millions (A Blog About Books) (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009

Robert Birnbaum and Tobias Wolff talk short stories and other topics at The Morning News. Wolff: “Somebody once described the novel as a prose narrative of a certain length that has something wrong with it. I can think of a few novels that seem to have nothing wrong with them at all, but I [...]

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The Morning News (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009

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Texas Tragedy in a Changing World [Extra Extra]

Austinist (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009

me and the sysop/Flickr This is the 20th Anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the event that signaled the end of the Cold War. The “Wall of Change” project at UT marks this historic moment. President Obama to attend a memorial service at Fort Hood on Tuesday. The New York Times has a detailed story about the background of the Fort Hood shooter. It’s part of their larger package...

Review-a-Day for Wed, Oct 21: Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories

Powell's Books: Overview (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009

Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories by Tobias Wolff, a review from Chicago Tribune by Art Winslow.

An Interview with Lorrie Moore

NewWest.Net Boise (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009

Lighthouse Writers Workshop is an independent creative writing program that has sponsored writing classes and literary events in Denver since 1997. Many accomplished Colorado writers teach at Lighthouse, including novelists Nick Arvin, Eli Gottlieb, and Laura Pritchett, and several writers who have taken classes at Lighthouse can boast of significant achievements as well, notably Gary Schanbacher,...

• An Interview with Lorrie Moore - NewWest.Net Boulder
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Journalist, Novelist, and Librarian Will Judge Story Prize

MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009

A journalist, a novelist, and a librarian will judge the $20,000 Story Prize this year--awarded to a short story collection written in English and published in the U.S. during the calendar year. Author A.M. Homes , LA Times journalist Carolyn Kellogg , and Ohio's Cuyahoga County Public Library librarian Bill Kelly will judge the 2009 prize. The winner will join a distinguished list that includes Edwidge...

Irene Vilar's Impossible Motherhood

Literanista (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009

For the last month, I've carrying around my ARC of Impossible Motherhood: Testimony of an Abortion Addict , I haven't had a chance to finish it but I wanted to post this because I feel this is a book that should be read by every one regardless of what your stance is on abortion. As I've been reading, it's staggering how complex the issue at hand is. I find it both familiar and disturbing and upsetting...

Tobias Wolff on ENDA and gender identity protections - and making the case

Pam's House Blend (Free subscription) | 09/03/2009

Professor Tobias Wolff of the University of Pennsylvania Law School submitted a timely guest post to the Blend about the Employment Non-Discrimination Act and gender identity citing a case that is a key example of the need for this to pass. The re-introduction of ENDA promises to bring with it a renewed discussion about the importance of federal statutory protections for gender identity and expression....

Lou Dobbs and Tobias Wolff Slam NOM's Maggie Gallagher on DOMA

Rod 2.0:Beta (Free subscription) | 08/23/2009

CNN's Lou Dobbs thankfully veers away from birther madness and hosts an excellent debate featuring University of Pennsylvania law professor and former Obama LGBT chairman Tobias Wolff and National Organization for Marriage's self-righteous Maggie Gallagher. At issue was this week's...

Latest NOMskull e-blast for cash...'Is there no justice for marriage?'

Pam's House Blend (Free subscription) | 08/22/2009

I guess it cannot be helped...given the National Organization for Marriage's move to D.C., and Maggie Gallagher's pathetic appearance on Lou Dobbs to discuss DOMA the other day (being slayed by both Dobbs and Tobias Wolff, law professor at the University of Pennsylvania), it was time to make a plea for the Almighty Dollar. It's NOM's Brian Brown with the pitch... NOM's President, Maggie Gallagher,...