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Fun Stuff, and Other Essays by James Wood
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Category: Biography & Memoir
Following "The Broken Estate", "The Irresponsible Self", and "How Fiction Works" - books that established James Wood as the leading critic of his generation - "The Fun Stuff" confirms Wood's pre-eminence, not only as a discerning judge but also as an appreciator of the contemporary novel. In twenty-thre ...Show more
How Fiction Works by James Wood
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Category: Reference Dictionaries Words | Reading Level: fair
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 and searching study of the main elements of fiction, such as narrative, detail, characterization, dialogue, realism, and style. In his first full-length book of c ...Show more
Serious Noticing - Selected Essays, 1999-2019 by James Wood
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Category: Anthologies | Reading Level: very good
The definitive collection of literary essays byThe New Yorker's award-winning longtime book critic Ever since the publication of his first essay collection,The Broken Estate, in 1999, James Wood has been widely regarded as a leading literary critic of the English-speaking world. His essays on canonical ...Show more
The Fun Stuff: And Other Essays by James Wood
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Following "The Broken Estate," "The Irresponsible Self," and "How Fiction Works"--books that established James Wood as the leading critic of his generation--"The Fun Stuff c"onfirms Wood's preeminence, not only as a discerning judge but also as an appreciator of the contemporary novel. In twenty-three p ...Show more
The Fun Stuff and Other Essays by James Wood
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Following The Broken Estate, The Irresponsible Self, and How Fiction Works- books that established James Wood as the leading critic of his generation - The Fun Stuffconfirms Wood's pre-eminence, not only as a discerning judge but also as an appreciator of the contemporary novel. In twenty-three passiona ...Show more
The Nearest Thing to Life by James Wood
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Reading Level: very good
In this remarkable blend of memoir and criticism, James Wood has written a master class on the connections between fiction and life. He argues that, of all the arts, fiction has a unique ability to describe the shape of our lives, and to rescue the texture of those lives from death and historical oblivi ...Show more
Upstate by James Wood
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Category: Fiction
Alan Querry, a successful property developer from the north of England, has two daughters- Vanessa, a philosopher who lives and teaches in Saratoga Springs, NY, and Helen, a record company executive based in London. The sisters never quite recovered from their parents? bitter divorce and the early death ...Show more
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