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The Author dies, the world yawns, and writers keep scribbling
This originated as an e-mail, but then I realized it was actually a blog post and edited it accordingly. Roland Barthes begins The Death of the Author thus: ‘This was woman herself, with her sudden fe… more →
The Story's Story
How Fiction Works by James Wood
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woowooteacup wrote 2 weeks ago: How Fiction Works by James Wood My rating: 4 of 5 stars Wood’s language usage feels old-school … more →
How Fiction Works
annotationnation wrote 2 months ago: book by James Wood annotation by Tina Rubin In this exceptional craft book, the venerable James Wood … more →
How Fiction Works -- James Wood
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Biblioklept wrote 4 months ago: Literary critic and Harvard professor James Wood’s How Fiction Works, new in trade paperback f … more →
Reading Frenzy
rm144 wrote 4 months ago: I must be starving for words, because there’s a reading frenzy going on in my home. Books were … more →
The Building Blocks of Story Telling
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nancyrawlinson wrote 7 months ago: I’ll just sit back here and let Ira do his thing. Sure, he’s talking about radio and bro … more →
James Wood on The Book Show
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James Bradley wrote 9 months ago: James Wood Further to my post earlier this week about James Wood, the ABC’s Book Show ran this … more →
'How Fiction Works' by James Wood
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Brian Bethune wrote 11 months ago: If you like to read—and why else would you be reading this?—critic James Wood’s How Fiction Works ca … more →
Showing a Little Plumage
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Ian Wolcott wrote 11 months ago: James Wood is still raising hackles. Back in 2000, before he ascended the throne at The New Yorker, … more →
The Author dies, the world yawns, and writers keep scribbling
Jake Seliger wrote 1 year ago: This originated as an e-mail, but then I realized it was actually a blog post and edited it accordin … more →
New York Times 100 Notable Books of '08
lyndalepress wrote 1 year ago: The New York Times has already published its ‘100 Notable Books of 2008′ list. I’v … more →
Walter Scott's Waverley, the intrusive narrator, and showing, not telling
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Jake Seliger wrote 1 year ago: In Walter Scott’s Waverley, a representative passage states: Now I protest to thee, gentle rea … more →
Doodles and Dollars
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Ian Wolcott wrote 1 year ago: In Antonioni’s film L’eclisse, the luminous Monica Vitti visits the Rome stock exchange, where her f … more →
Something to Consider
kristyn wrote 1 year ago: I seem to reference Image’s blog Good Letters quite often. They provide sentences to unpack, … more →
How To Get A Literary Woody
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nancyrawlinson wrote 1 year ago: The great literary critic James Wood has a new book out, and he is being publicly fellated in print … more →
Links: Penelope Fitzgerald, How Fiction Works, and blogger ethics
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Jake Seliger wrote 1 year ago: * The L.A. Times is cutting its stand-alone book review. Mark Sarvas covers the protest of its forme … more →
On reading fiction!
Guru wrote 1 year ago: Louis Bayard reviews James Wood’s How Fiction Works for Salon: Of course, literary figures as … more →
More on How Fiction Works and someone else's review doesn't
Jake Seliger wrote 1 year ago: In The Australian, a nominal review of James Wood’s How Fiction Works is really a discussion o … more →
How Fiction Works, and how this review doesn't
Jake Seliger wrote 1 year ago: I keep citing James Wood’s How Fiction Works without writing about it directly because the boo … more →
More on-line sanctioned ignorance: in defense of Tom Wolfe and others
Jake Seliger wrote 1 year ago: James Wood wrote a typically fascinating piece to Nigel Beale defending “lifeness,” or s … more →
