At our recent Narrative Salon in San Francisco, we gathered with friends and fellow Narrativos. Along the way, we celebrated a landmark year—one shaped by our literary community that includes more than two thousand authors in our free Library. We marked the debut of A. T. Steel, our latest Narrative Prize winner, and the growth of the Narrative for Schools program that serves as an educational oasis for teachers and students in more than 880 under-resourced schools across the US and in fifty-five countries.
We ended the night with our dear friend and longtime Narrativo, Tobias Wolff, reading his legendary short story Bullet in the Brain. In his introduction, Narrative editor Tom Jenks said of his longtime friend, “I can say something about him that I can’t say about many (or maybe any) other writers that I know, and that is I have yet to meet a reader who’s read Toby’s work who doesn’t love it, and that’s really because of the love that Toby puts into his work.”
