"Bullet in the Brain" is a short story contained within Tobias Wolff's short story collection The Night in Question. The story follows a jaded and cynical literary critic named Anders as he visits the bank just before closing time. While he is waiting in line, armed robbers enter the bank, and the story truly begins. "Bullet in the Brain" explores themes of cynicism, intimacy, memory, and fulfillment.
Tobias Wolff provided a definition of the guiding principles behind his own stories in explaining his choices of the works of others for Matters of Life and Death (1983), the anthology of contemporary...
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"I was a liar myself when I was a kid. I'm still a liar, really, and I don't mean just in terms of telling stories and being a story writer. I wouldn't ever want to be held to a literal version of the...
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Tobias (Jonathan Ansell) Wolff
Tobias Wolff