Tobias Wolff, awarded a National Medal of Arts for his contributions as an author and educator, is the author of two celebrated memoirs, This Boy’s Life and In Pharaoh’s Army. His novella The Barracks Thief received the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 1985. Wolff has written two novels and several story collections considered contemporary classics, including Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories.

Photograph by Marion Ettlinger.

Say Yes and Her Dog

Video Readings

by Tobias Wolff


At the Narrative Night in San Francisco, March 2008, Toby read two stories from his latest collection, Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories. Toby is a master of the form and never better than in the two stories here. You can see and listen to Toby's performance—it’s purely great storytelling. Enjoy!

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