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.

Bullet in the Brain

Video Readings

by Tobias Wolff


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.”

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