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James Wood, How Fiction Works
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Sunday Oct 5, 2008 (11am)
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$40
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James Wood is one of the few academics who has been able to transcend the stodgy, tedious style of writing that so often marks literary criticism. His reviews for publications such as The New Yorker use highly analytical close-reading methods — he meticulously picks apart the word choice and voice of writers like Cormac McCarthy, of whom he disapproves — while still attracting the average reader. At today's lecture, Wood further illuminates points made in his latest book of essays, How Fiction Works.
