The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, December 1st, 1996
The Night in Question. By Tobias Wolff. Knopf. 206 pages. $23. Reading other writers' short stories these days, Tobias Wolff must feel like the man who can't find his car in the mall parking lot at Christmas time: Suddenly all of the other cars are starting to look like his. I'm exaggerating but only a little. "The Night in Question," Wolff's second short story collection and his first in a decade, has made me aware of how his brand name "dirty realism" has crowded the literary market. Stories about these job-losing, apartment-hopping, double-divorcing, military-serving, trailer-park-living,...
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