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New Letters on the Air: Tobias Wolff

Old School, the 2003 novel by Tobias Wolff that was a finalist for the Pen/Faulkner Award, is a selection for the National Endowment for the Arts program "The Big Read." By New Letters on the Air

Kansas City, MO – Wolff talks with Angela Elam about this book in front of an audience at the Kansas City Public Library where his appearance concludes the city-wide read of Old School. They also discuss fiction writing and his 2009 book, Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories.

Listen here until September 9, 2009.

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