September 25, 2007
Herein we get Eli Gottlieb’s eloquent intro; a new-and-improved pronunciation of my name (which I’m now going by—Aun-DRAY-a); “Bullet in the Brain,” read by Tobias Wolff; a hilarious-cum-poignant reading from Old School; thoughts on turning anecdote to story; thoughts on writing “of a piece” or schizophrenically; thoughts on making boring characters interesting; an especially sudden cut off mid-sentence (sorry–just learning this audio editing gig). To come in part II: we hear of Stephen King and terrorizing young readers; we hear about Raymond Carver; we hear about Hemingway; we hear about falsifying sermons; we hear more good things from Tobias and Eli.
(click the triangle, then click it again. It takes a while to buffer.) Or, if you have your own player, use this: TobiasWolffStudioPartI.
Tobias Wolff interviewed by Eli Gottlieb, originally recorded at a packed Ricketson Theater on Saturday, September 15, 2007.
Thanks, all, and tune in for Part II next week!
–AD
September 28, 2007 at
Oh my. I don’t check this blog for a couple of weeks and then I come back to find it chock full of great information and updates. I did the Tobias Wolff weekend and it was everything AUN-Dray-AH and Mike say it was and more. He was fabulous, the events were fun, exciting and inspiring, the food and the view were perfect and of course all of the participants were — the coolest. Thanks to all of you who put these events together — they were the best!
September 28, 2007 at
Ah, shucks. We’re new to the whole “keep the blog updated” thing, but we’re trying to keep up with the Rockies’ streak. As long as they win, we blog.
Thanks for reading, Lisa. And no, YOU’RE the best. –ad
October 3, 2007 at
[...] The Tobias Tapes, Part II 03Oct07 Here’s where we get to the nitty gritty: How Tobias Wolff hears voices in his head; how mentorship and workshops “work”; how Raymond Carver told stories on himself, horded international sweets on Halloween, and couldn’t say a mean word to anyone; how Gottlieb got the $10,000 word (”hornswoggle”
into polite conversation; and much more. Somehow the ditty on lying during sermonizing is a lost file (we’re investigating–divine intervention?), but the rest of the event should be here. Thanks again to all who made it and all who were there in spirit. And don’t forget Part I is here. [...]
October 5, 2007 at
[...] graceful ending to “Bullet in the Brain” (hear it read by the author in the Tobias Tapes, Part I) is one. Consider this following bit (reviled Yankees references notwithstanding), sent to me [...]
October 10, 2007 at
[...] moments before I gave myself wholeheartedly to the Sunday crossword, I was put in a mind of Wolff’s Anders: “a book critic known for the weary, elegant savagery with which he dispatched almost [...]
January 6, 2008 at
[...] out squeaky clean! Also, who doesn’t like a nice direct sentence from, say, a writer like Tobias Wolff? But I find it equally lovely to get messy in a sentence, to follow the associative currents that [...]