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A monthly reading and conversation with the New Yorker fiction editor Deborah Treisman.

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Colm Tóibín Reads Tobias Wolff

October 1, 2026

Deborah Treisman (0:08)

This is the New Yorker Fiction Podcast from The New Yorker Magazine. I'm Deborah Treisman, fiction editor at The New Yorker.

Each month, we invite a writer to choose a story from the magazine's archives to read and discuss. This month, we're going to hear Awaiting Orders by Tobias Wolff, which appeared in The New Yorker in July of 2005

Colm Tóibín (0:28)

Moritz had spent 20 of his 39 years in the army. He was not one of those who claimed to love it, but he belonged to it as to a tribe, bound to those around him by lines of unrefusable obligation, love being finally beside the point.

Deborah Treisman (0:47)

The story was chosen by Colm Tóibín, a winner of the International Dublin Literary Award, whose books of fiction include the novels The Master and Long Island, and the story collection, The News from Dublin, which was published earlier this year. Hi Colm.

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