Tobias Wolff

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  • Bautz, Mark. "Wolff's Memoir Explores the Rites of War." Insight on the News 10, no. 48 (28 November 1994): 27. (Bautz discusses the manifestations of hope and failure in In Pharaoh's Army, and compliments Wolff's acuity as a storyteller.)
  • Clute, John. Review of The Stories of Tobias Wolff, by Tobias Wolff. Times Literary Supplement, no. 4441 (13-19 May 1988): 532. (Clute evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of The Stories of Tobias Wolff.)
  • Cox, Shelley. Library Journal 110, no. 17 (15 October 1985): 104. (Review of Back in the World.)
  • Gould, Molly. "Nothing's Sacred." San Francisco Review of Books (March-April 1995): 20-1. (Gould admires Wolff's candor in his two memoirs, This Boy's Life and In Pharaoh's Army.)
  • Greenwell, Bill. "Goose Corn." New Statesman 104, no. 2679 (23 July 1982): 23. (Greenwell examines the prose style and plot of Hunters in the Snow.)
  • Knudsen, James. Review of The Night in Question, by Tobias Wolff. World Literature Today 71, no. 3 (summer 1997): 600. (Knudsen offers a positive assessment of The Night in Question.)
  • Miller, D. Quentin. Review of Best New American Voices 2000, by Tobias Wolff. Review of Contemporary Fiction 21, no. 1 (spring 2001): 205. (Miller praises the diversity of Best New American Voices 2000, commenting that “Wolff has selected twenty fine stories that vary greatly in terms of tone, subject matter, even length.”)
  • Mitchell, Eleanor. Library Journal (15 September 1994): 93. (Review of The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories.)
  • Peterson, Anne Palmer. "And Finally … Talking with Tobias Wolff." Continuum Online (summer 1998). (Interview with Tobias Wolff.)
  • Rochman, Hazel. Booklist 92, no. 22 (August 1996): 1857. (Review of The Night in Question.)
  • Saari, Jon. Review of Back in the World, by Tobias Wolff. Antioch Review 44, no. 1 (winter 1986): 118-19. (Saari praises Wolff's writing style in Back in the World, noting that the stories “unfold without calling attention to any stated philosophical position or tricky narrative aesthetic.”)
  • Schrieberg, David. "Interview: Tobias Wolff." Stanford Today Online (September/October 1998). (Interview with Tobias Wolff.)
  • Wolff, Tobias, and Michael Schumacher. "Tobias Wolff and the Patterns of Memoir-Writing." Writer's Digest (August 1989): 52-3. (Wolff discusses the process of writing his memoirs, This Boy's Life and In Pharaoh's Army.)
  • Wolff, Tobias, Bonnie Lyons, and Bill Oliver. "Citizens and Outlaws." In Passion and Craft: Conversations with Notable Writers, pp. 171-89. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998. (Wolff discusses his perceptions of himself as a writer, his preoccupation with liars in his fiction, and the morality of his characters.)

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Wolff, Tobias (Short Story Criticism)

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