April 26, 2008 @ M Bar

David Clennon	Robert Forster
Wendy Makkena	Tobias Wolff

Tobias Wolff joined WordTheatre on April 26th to celebrate the release of Our Story Begins with selected readings from his new book!

• David Clennon (Miles on Thirty Something) read "That Room"
  
• Wendy Makkena (State of Play, Listen Up, Oliver Beene) read "The White Bible"
  
• Robert Forster (Jackie Brown, Mullholland Falls, Karen Sisco) read "Down to Bone"
  
• Tobias Wolff read "Her Dog"
  

Our Story Begins is a collection of ten new short stories, along with 21 classics, from the acclaimed and award-winning writer Tobias Wolff — his first in more than a decade.

The L.A. Times Book Review declared:

"Wolff has been honing his short stories for 30 years. His mind, his wisdom, his timing and his wit cut through our stasis with the elegance of a world-class surgeon."

and

"Of the components in short fiction -- voice, character, motif, trajectory, dialogue, first sentence, pacing, title, curtain line -- Wolff lays each down impeccably and quietly, a master mason, without fanfare and without the current faddishness for flourishes and turkey-cocking."

(The full L.A. Times Book Review article can be read here: http://www.latimes.com/features/books/la-bk-wiggins23mar23,0,2228386.story )

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