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James Wood

James Wood is a staff writer at The New Yorker and a visiting lecturer in English and American literature at Harvard. He is the author of two essay collections, The Broken Estate and The Irresponsible Self, and of a novel, The Book Against God.

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How Fiction Works
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
What makes a story a story? What is style? What’s the connection between realism and real life? These are some of the questions James Wood answers in How...
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The Irresponsible Self
On Laughter and the Novel
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
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...
James Wood
Miriam Berkley

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