In the opening story, “Mortals,” a hack journalist who spends most of his time writing obituaries is fired after it’s discovered that he hasn’t been checking whether his subjects are in fact deceased. These are clear, urgent tales that often set up moral dilemmas that aren’t easily solved. This is a very strong collection of 15 stories. (Note to self: I need to finish that book some day and review it properly.)īut I’d never read a Wolff book all the way through. And I’m a big fan of The Vintage Book Of American Short Stories, which Tobias Wolff edited and which contains some of the best short fiction from the past half a century.
I was familiar with some of these stories from magazines, anthologies like The Best American Short Stories series, and The New Yorker podcast.
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