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Authors Reveal: What I Read When I Have Two Minutes of Peace

We asked some of the most celebrated authors in America what they read in the doctor's office or in the line for carpool—any time they have a short, unexpected window of free time.
By Leigh Newman
Tobias Wolff's short stories
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"Any of Tobias Wolff's short stories. Whenever I want to remind myself why I love fiction, or how much can be done in a few pages, I turn to my Collected Stories of Tobias Wolff, and I have never been let down by it."
— John Boyne, author of The Terrible Thing That Happened to Barnaby Brocket
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Published 03/25/2013
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