SOURCE: Hannah, James. “Published but Uncollected Stories.” In Tobias Wolff: A Study of the Short Fiction, pp. 89-100. Boston: Twayne, 1996.

In the following essay, Hannah reviews several stories that have appeared in anthologies and magazines but that Wolff has yet to include in a collection of his short fiction.

Introduction

When I sit down to write, I discover things that I have, for one reason or another, not admitted, not seen, not reflected on sufficiently. And those are the things that I live for in other people's fiction as well as my own.

Tobias Wolff, from an interview with Jay Woodruff

Since the publication of Back in the World in 1985, Wolff's fiction has been well served in the reprint market. The Barracks Thief and Other Stories (including Wolff's novella plus six stories from In the Garden [In the Garden of the North American Martyrs]) and The Stories of...