Andrew Bolt (Free subscription) | 11/25/2008
Tobias Wolff is the authentic voice of the Left - a tribalist who accepts no personal responsibility for his sheer nastiness: …
The Black Kettle (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
Theodore Dalrymple, City Journal: The Sunday before the American election, the Observer in London published an assessment of President Bush’s legacy by several well-known American writers. One of them, Tobias Wolff, wrote: “When I see someone being rude to a waiter, or blocking the road in a Ford Expedition, or yakking loudly on a cell phone in a crowded elevator, I naturally assume they voted for...
Daily Pundit (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
Pot, Meet Kettle by Theodore Dalrymple, City Journal 19 November 2008 The Sunday before the American election, the Observer in London published an assessment of President Bush’s legacy by several well-known American writers. One of them, Tobias Wolff, wrote: “When I see someone being rude to a waiter, or blocking the road in a Ford Expedition, [...]
Ed Driscoll.com (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
Found via Theodore Dalrymple, leftwing author Tobias Wolff writes in England's Grauniad:When I see someone being rude to a waiter, or blocking the road in a Ford Expedition, or yakking loudly on a cell phone in a crowded elevator, I...
Ben Casnocha: The Blog (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
I'm a huge fan of Tobias Wolff. I loved his novel Old School and his memoir This Boy's Life is a classic of the genre.I just finished his memoir of a young manhood fighting in Vietnam called In Pharaoh's Army:...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/08/2008
Last weekend, the novelist Tobias Wolff described his fellow Americans' successive decisions to send George W Bush to the White House as "votes for nostalgia". Martin Johnson has precious little in common with the unpresident-elect of the most powerful nation on earth – Bush never won a line-out; Johnson can comfortably negotiate the highways and byways of the English language without disappearing...
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
"At a Litquake tribute to Tobias Wolff, writer Stephen Elliott described a link between fiction writing and political bent: 'Literary fiction is character driven, and to write good characters you have to have empathy, and if you have empathy, you're a liberal.'"...
pretty* in the city (Free subscription) | 09/26/2008
If someone told me that one day I'd keep company with Dave Eggers, Nick Hornby, Frank McCourt, Elizabeth Gilbert, Tobias Wolff and Sarah Vowell in a book, I would've told them they were crazy. But not anymore... I'm in this book! It must be some kind of mistake. The Autobiographer's Handbook: The 826 National Guide to Writing Your Memoir By Jennifer Traig - Introduction by Dave Eggers No, in all seriousness,...
Open Libraries (Free subscription) | 09/24/2008
Sometimes, a short story sticks with you until you find it with pleasure living in a larger collection. In 1991, I read a short story by Tobias Wolff standing up in a Chicago bookstore that I looked for until it was included in The Night in Question. Jhumpa Lahiri’s new book of short stories, Unaccustomed [...]
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 09/15/2008
RATING: (WILD APPLAUSE)More Stories by Tobias Wolff: Staged literature. By Tobias Wolff. Directed by Joel Mullennix. With Stephanie Hunt, Jeri Lynn Cohen, Paul Finocchiaro, Michelle Pava Mills and Anthony Nemirovsky. (Through Oct. 5. Word for Word, Magic...
Bookninja (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
A call to a few friends to donate books to benefit Obama goes viral and suddenly a literary fundraiser in the SF Bay area gets some real heavyweight dough. In seven days, hundreds of books have arrived. First editions from Stephen King and Billy Collins. Books from Anne Tyler, Tobias Wolff, Lisa See, Jodi Picoult, Jonathan [...]
Open Culture (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
In the latest installment of The New Yorker Fiction podcast (iTunes Feed Web Site), Tobias Wolff (author of Old School) reads Stephanie Vaughn’s short story “Dog Heaven.” If you’ve never heard him before, Wolff gives his own work and others a very good read (see our earlier piece.). Though the podcast is not yet available on [...] ShareThis
A Work in Progress (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
I was going to spend today's post gushing over Tobias Wolff's Old School, which I enjoyed immensely, but as I already wrote about it briefly last week, I feel like I'll just end up being repetitive. Aside from the gorgeous...
A Work in Progress (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
I'm at the halfway point in Tobias Wolff's Old School. I picked this book up thanks to Cornflower who chose it as the September book for her online bookclub (click on the link and see the virtual treat she baked...
Asylum (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
Straight into a shortlist of one for best book of the year and worst cover design of the decade is Tobias Wolff’s volume of new and selected stories, Our Story Begins. (Seriously, what is it with that cover? To give an already under-read writer like Wolff such an offputting design reminds me a little of [...]
