Greer Tames the Shrew Mar 31, 2008
What Tobias Wolff gets and the frauds don't. Judith Shulevitzposted March 24, 2008. (Slate)
30 years from the observation deck Mar 27, 2008
Tobias Wolff creates people. Not from thin air - words and renditions so honest could not be created from nothing but from life experience, keen observation, and a commitment to writing for 30 plus years. (Daily Iowan, IA)
The Liberation of Lying Mar 24, 2008
Tobias Wolff's Our Story Begins ... What Tobias Wolff gets and the frauds don't ... One of the best stories in , a collection of new and selected older stories by Tobias Wolff, is called "The Liar." It's about a teenage boy who regales strangers with dark fictions about his familyappalling accounts of misfortune and disease. (Slate)
With A Silversmith's Precision Mar 21, 2008
Tobias Wolff's 'Story Begins' mixes old, new. Article:Tobias Wolff's 'Story Begins' mixes old, new:/c/a/2008/03/19/DDP0VIOSR.DTL Article:Tobias Wolff's 'Story Begins' mixes old, new:/c/a/2008/03/19/DDP0VIOSR.DTL ... Tobias Wolff's 'Story Begins' mixes old, new. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Tobias Wolff's 'Story Begins' mixes old, new Mar 21, 2008
Tobias Wolff usually doesn't reread his old stories, but when it came time to assemble "Our Story Begins," a new collection of his work, he decided to tinker with each of the pieces he selected ... "Tobias Wolff has somehow gotten his hands on our shared secrets," the late short-story writer Raymond Carver once wrote, "and he's out to tell everything he knows." ... Tobias Wolff will appear at 10 a.m. Tuesday on KQED's "Forum" (88. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Storytelling Animal Mar 16, 2008
For more than three decades, Tobias Wolff has honed the craft of making sublime art out of the short-story form ... Read Edward Guthmann's profile of Tobias Wolff on Thursday in Datebook. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
It's the clever way to power - part 2 Mar 16, 2008
Tobias Wolff (Hertford). Film/Theatre/TV. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
2 editors' online journal gives new life to literature Mar 7, 2008
Over 10 days during a vacation in Martha's Vineyard, they assembled a free online magazine called Narrative ( ) with selections from writer friends such as Jane Smiley, Tobias Wolff and Joyce Carol Oates ... Narrative Magazine will hold an evening of readings with Amy Tan and Tobias Wolff on March 13, 8-10 p.m. at the Fort Mason Center in San Francisco, Building A, Golden Gate Room. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Amy’s Circus Feb 25, 2008
One with a Bullet: reads Tobias Wolff s Bullet in the Brain. 00004000. (New Yorker)
Literary gamble Feb 4, 2008
Crack open any issue and you'll see work by famous authors -- Tobias Wolff, Jane Smiley, Maxine Kumin -- rubbing shoulders with emerging writers such as Eskimo author Carol Richards. Her creative nonfiction piece "It Was Nothing," about her struggle with vitiligo, a disease that causes skin to lose its pigmentation, was published in the 2007 spring/summer issue of AQR. It has since been selected for the upcoming edition of "Best Creative Nonfiction.". (Anchorage Daily News)
Old lions, overseas talents eye '08 bestseller lists Dec 31, 2007
Short-story lovers have much to choose from, including "Unaccustomed Earth" (April), by Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri; "The Deportees" (January), by Ireland's Roddy Doyle; "Our Story Begins" (March), by Tobias Wolff; "Dangerous Laughter" (February), by Steven Millhauser; and a provocative package by Joyce Carol Oates titled "Wild Nights: Stories About the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway" (April). War and politics. (Boston Globe)
From student rag to literary riches Dec 30, 2007
Richard Ford recently acknowledged its importance in bringing him and other contributors - including Raymond Carver and Tobias Wolff - an eager new readership ... June 1983 The 'Dirty Realism' issue is credited with defining a new school of American writing, including authors such as Raymond Carver and Tobias Wolff. (Guardian Unlimited)
Carol Bly, writer and essayist, dies of cancer Dec 23, 2007
Author and writing instructor Tobias Wolff, of Palo Alto, Calif. called Bly s short stories indelible, exemplary and said he often uses them in the classroom at Stanford University. (Winona Daily News, MN)
Public radio Nov 17, 2007
A. Chekhov, An Enigmatic Nature, read by Fionnula Flanagan; Edna O Brien, Brother, read by Fionnula Flanagan; Tobias Wolff, Awaiting Orders, read by Michael Cerveris. 10 p.m. In Other Words. (Montana Standard, MT)
This is fact not fiction Nov 15, 2007
Novels and screenplays of high school, college and the emotional depths of suburbia garnered fame for Tom Perrotta, an understudy of Tobias Wolff ... Tobias Wolff, professor, 1980-1997 ... Tobias Wolff is best known for his work in the memoir and short story genres. (Daily Orange, NY)
Once upon a time Nov 14, 2007
Tobias Wolff, the program's most celebrated professor at the time, resigned in March 1997 and went to teach at Stanford University. The resignations took a serious toll on the MFA program's national reputation. (Daily Orange, NY)
THE GUIDE: L.A. book fans are getting lit in a whole new way. Nov 1, 2007
"I first went to WordTheatre because I heard Tobias Wolff was going to be presenting one of his stories, and he's one of my favorite writers," says Franco, who is in UCLA's MFA program for creative writing. "I met [artistic director] Cedering Fox at that reading, and she invited me to be part of the next one, which featured stories by Rick Moody. I love Moody's writing, so it just snowballed from there. Now I'm on the board of directors," he adds. (Los Angeles Times)
Great expectations for the writer from nowhere Sep 10, 2007
It was the writers he discovered there Hemingway, Bellow, Sontag, plus Raymond Carver, Richard Ford and Tobias Wolff rather than any British novelists (including Dickens, strangely), who have been the biggest influence on his career: What the Americans taught me is that less is more and that you should leave space for the reader. A self-confessed rugby nut one of his novels, Book of Fame, tells the story of the legendary 1905 All Blacks tour Jones can now look forward to a possible dream double... (Times Online)
Weekend Hotlist Jul 26, 2007
Created in 2004, some of the workshops have been led by famous authors like Tobias Wolff, Tom Clancy, Jeff Shaara and Bobbie Ann Mason. The organization sent out an open call for writing submissions from anyone who has served since 9/11. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Book review: The Mother Garden and Famous Fathers & Other Stories Jul 13, 2007
"Writers, to my way of thinking, are no more free in their choices than most people," the author Tobias Wolff once said in a Paris Review interview. "Our material chooses us; certain things engage us, certain things do not." A pair of new writers proves Wolff's point quite clearly with their debut short-story collections: In "The Mother Garden," Robin Romm explores the loss of a parent who dies young (in most cases, a mother) and in "Famous Fathers & Other Stories," Pia Ehrhardt excavates sexual... (International Herald Tribune)
Jury: Author Defrauded Movie Company Jun 24, 2007
Albert even made phone calls to a psychiatrist while posing as the troubled teen, and grabbed the attention of such authors as Tobias Wolff and Dave Eggers, and filmmaker Gus Van Sant. Although Albert stared straight ahead when the verdict was read, and said she expected the decision, she was quick to condemn it. (Forbes)
Jury's dilemma: Was nom de plume a scam? Jun 23, 2007
Albert even made phone calls to a psychiatrist while posing as the troubled teen, and grabbed the attention of such authors as Tobias Wolff and Dave Eggers, and filmmaker Gus Van Sant. A literary hoax. (CNN -- Law)
TIM GREEN TELLS WHY HE SUPPORTS CITY LIBRARY PROJECT Apr 29, 2007
While studying English literature, Green became acquainted with the renowned minimalist, Raymond Carver, and had the opportunity to study under the award-winning writer and professor, Tobias Wolff. loved books so much I wanted to write them, he said. (Oswego Palladium-Times, NY)
Calm in Hightstown Apr 12, 2007
"On the boat we were so far removed from normality you lose all sense of everything except the present. I'd already been living this strange existence in this bubble of time, so being out on the boat was somewhat familiar. The writing reflects that." In addition to Yale, Mr. Watkins studied with Tobias Wolff at the Syracuse University Writing Program. With about a dozen novels to his name, Mr. Watkins has also written for The London Times, National Geographic, Town and Country and The New York... (Hopewell Valley News, NJ)
Bringing the war home Apr 12, 2007
Quotes flash across the screen from Hemingway and "Jarhead," while writers such as Tobias Wolff appear to talk about the nature of writing during war. "Operation Homecoming" is a shocking film. (GW Hatchet, Washington DC)
Taking Names Apr 11, 2007
Previous PEN/Malamud Award winners include John Updike, Saul Bellow, Eudora Welty, Stuart Dybek and William Maxwell, Joyce Carol Oates, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Ann Beattie, Nathan Englander, Tobias Wolff and Adam Haslett. Wild' founder jailed Joe Francis, founder of the infamous "Girls Gone Wild" video empire, was taken into custody by federal marshals in Florida yesterday to face a contempt-of-court citation after initially defying a federal judge, APreports. (Washington Times, DC)
Documentary gives voice to soldiers' war experiences Apr 6, 2007
The director also enlists commentary from some famous literary figures, including Tobias Wolff, Anthony Swofford, Paul Fussell (a former professor of this reviewer), and the ultra-quotable Tim O'Brien. Some elements are more successful than others, partially because at the film's center is an eclectic and uneven pile of words derived from letters, poems, journal entries, essays, satirical musings, and works of fiction. (Boston Globe)
Veteran novelist's new book delves into Civil War Apr 6, 2007
"He was intensely talented, and the fact he could write under these circumstances really knocked me out," said writer Tobias Wolff, a friend who taught Olmstead and whose books include "This Boy's Life.". Wolff calls Olmstead the most successful teacher of undergraduate writing students in the country because so many of his students went on to publish books they started under him. (Concord Monitor)
0 Comment(s) Documentaries present Iraq war in words of the troops Apr 2, 2007
Several service members who contributed their writings to the anthology provide commentary throughout the film, as do renowned American wartime writers including Tim O'Brien and Tobias Wolff. Director Richard Robbins said his goal was "to make a film that focused on the human experience" of war. (North County Times)
Storytelling's new frontier Mar 22, 2007
" The list of influential writers who have contributed to the show include Dave Eggers, Sarah Vowell, Michael Chabon, Tobias Wolff, Anne Lamott and Spalding Gray. The show had been on the air just six months when it won its first Peabody Award for excellence in broadcast media. Soon afterward, Glass heard that writers unconnected to the show were regularly lifting stories and pitching them to television as their own. "My little sister Karen was a Disney executive at the time," Glass said. "And... (San Francisco Chronicle)
A son recalls a Marine's trials Mar 20, 2007
He also generously pays tribute to fellow writers on Vietnam: Philip Caputo, Tim O'Brien, Neil Sheehan and Tobias Wolff, among others. Bissell reads so much about the Vietnam War that he seems to know more about it than his father. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Quick reads, deep thoughts, lasting enjoyment Feb 7, 2007
"New Sudden Fiction" is Robert Shapard and James Thomas's fourth anthology of short-short stories, featuring works from an international cast of writers including Tobias Wolff, Ha Jin, Nadine Gordimer, and Jorge Luis Arzola. Both teachers of literature and creative writing , Shapard and Thomas kicked around various names -- "experimental fictions," "prose poems," even "enigmas" -- to describe these tiny tales. (Boston Globe -- Living)
Leonardo DiCaprio: Diamond geezer Jan 27, 2007
DiCaprio has been a Scorsese fan for as long as he has been watching films, and first dreamed of working with him when, at the age of 19, he acted opposite DeNiro in This Boy's Life (1993), based on the upbringing of the American writer Tobias Wolff. Scorsese, meanwhile, has not only the security of a solid box-office draw to underwrite his films. (Independent)
Looking at war, in soldiers' words Jan 23, 2007
They include Mark Bowden, Tom Clancy, Bobbie Ann Mason, and Tobias Wolff. When the workshops started and the writing submissions began to flow in, what the organizers thought might be a trickle ended up as a flood. (Boston Globe)
