In brief: Get Lit! presents author Wolff

Eastern Washington University Press will present “An Afternoon with Toby Wolff” at 1 p.m. Sunday, as part of the 10th annual Get Lit! festival for readers and writers. He will speak at the Spokane Athletic Club in downtown Spokane at 1002 W. Main Ave. and will sign books afterward.

Tobias Wolff is described as “a master of the short story who writes with the exacting precision of a bomb maker” in the March/April 2008 cover story in Poets and Writers magazine. Wolff is currently the Ward W. and Priscilla B. Woods professor in humanities at Stanford University where he studied creative writing as a Wallace Stegner Fellow in 1975.

Wolff’s latest collection, “Our Story Begins,” contains the best of three decades of short stories in the tradition of his famous memoir, “This Boy’s Life,” and his novel, “Old School.”

Get Lit! features author presentations and readings, writing workshops and panels, author visits to schools, youth poetry slams and more. Many events are free to the public. The festival will be held April 16-20 in Spokane and Cheney. For more information, go to www.ewu.edu/getlit.

Tickets for “An Afternoon with Toby Wolff” are available for $10 at Aunties Bookstore at 402 W. Main Ave., in Spokane (838-0206) or from Eastern Washington University Press at 534 E. Spokane Falls Blvd., (368-6587).