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James Wood

Related: Literary Criticism, Essays, & Biography, World: Europe, History & Criticism, General Fiction

JAMES WOOD is a staff writer at The New Yorker and a visiting lecturer at Harvard. He is the author of two essay collections, The Broken Estate and The Irresponsible Self, and a novel, The Book Against God.

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How Fiction Works

James Wood Picador

In the tradition of E. M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel and Milan Kundera's The Art of the Novel, How Fiction Works is a scintillating study of the magic...

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The Irresponsible Self

On Laughter and the Novel

James Wood Picador

"James Wood has been called our best young critic. This is not true. He is our best critic; he thinks with a sublime ferocity."--Cynthia Ozick Following the...

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The Book Against God

A Novel

James Wood Picador

Thomas Bunting while neglecting his philosophy Ph.D., still unfinished after seven years, is secretly writing what he hopes will be his masterwork--a vast...

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