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James Hannah (essay date 1996)

SOURCE: Hannah, James. “Published but Uncollected Stories.” In Tobias Wolff: A Study of the Short Fiction, pp. 89-100. Boston: Twayne, 1996.

[In the following essay, Hannah reviews several stories that have appeared in anthologies and magazines but that Wolff has yet to include in a collection of his short fiction.]

INTRODUCTION

When I sit down to write, I discover things that I have, for one reason or another, not admitted, not seen, not reflected on sufficiently. And those are the things that I live for in other people's fiction as well as my own.

Tobias Wolff, from an interview with Jay Woodruff

Since the publication of Back in the World in 1985, Wolff's fiction has been well served in the reprint market. The Barracks Thief and Other Stories (including Wolff's novella plus six stories from In the Garden [In the Garden of the...

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1. Introduction
2. Principal Works
3. Criticism
   1. Thomas Sutcliffe (review date 30 July 1982)
   2. Richard Eder (review date 17 November 1985)
   3. Perry Glasser (review date December 1985)
   4. Mona Simpson (essay date 9 December 1985)
   5. Jay Woodruff and Tobias Wolff (interview date spring 1990)
   6. Richard Eder (review date 13 October 1996)
   7. Robert Stone (review date 15 November 1996)
   8. Joan Smith and Tobias Wolff (interview date December 1996)
   9. James Hannah (essay date 1996)
   10. James Hannah (essay date 1996)
   11. James Hannah (essay date 1996)
   12. Colm J. Kelly (essay date March 1999)
   13. Martin Scofield (essay date 2001)
4. Further Reading
5. Copyright