By Elon R. Green 12/01/03 12:00am

Learning to Write Truly-A Lovely Second First Novel

Old School , by Tobias Wolff. Alfred A . Knopf, 195 pages, $22.

With the publication of Old School , Tobias Wolff-who freely admits to spending six months on a single short story-has scraped whatever sheen remains off the writer’s mystique. I suspect that Mr. Wolff embraces the maxim attributed to Anthony Burgess: If Read More