Old School

And he could do that also in the stories.

And there's a novel of his which is called Old School, which I read more or less in a sitting.

Mm-hmm.

And, uh, uh, there is also in that, that he can create a scene in a paragraph, and when you look at the paragraph to see how did this happen in this paragraph, it's not obvious.

Hey, thanks, Deborah.

It's been a pleasure.

[outro music] Tobias Wolff is the author of two memoirs and eight books of fiction, including the novels The Barracks Thief and Old School, and the story collections The Night in Question and Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories, which won the Story Prize in 2008.

Wolff is also a recipient of the Rea Award for the short story and the National Medal of Arts, among other honors.