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Tobias Wolff

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3 picks · 1995–2008

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Awake
fiction ·

Short story by Tobias Wolff about a Columbia College junior and his doubts about himself and his Russian girlfriend as they lie in bed together.

Class Picture
fiction ·

Tobias Wolff’s short story about a visit by Robert Frost to a boys’ boarding school full of would-be poets and writers.

Bullet in the Brain
fiction ·

Tobias Wolff’s 1995 short story about what “passes before” a literary critic’s eyes—“a phrase he would have abhorred”—when he is shot in the head at the bank.