

Colm Tóibín Reads Tobias Wolff
Colm Tóibín joins Deborah Treisman to discuss “Awaiting Orders,” by Tobias Wolff, which was published in The New Yorker in 2005. Tóibín, who is a fiction writer, essayist, playwright, and poet, has won the International Dublin Literary Award, the Folio Prize, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, among others. He has…
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