How Fiction Works, by James Wood: a list of reviews and comment.
- Sir Frank Kermode, "The Art of Noticing," New Republic/Powell's
- Leon Neyfakh, "The Wood Workshop: How Critic Became A One-Man School," New York Observer
- Gideon Lewis-Kraus, Los Angeles Times
- Daniel Green, "Life on the Page," Open Letters
- Giles Harvey, "James Wood Ain't Afraid of Lit's Favorite Sons," Village Voice
- Denis Donoghue, "Flaubert's Overcoat," New York Sun
- Morgan Meis, "The 'Truth' Hurts," The Smart Set
- Paul Dean, "The Art of Reality," The New Criterion
- Sydney Blair, "Notes from an Uncommon Reader," VQR/Powells
- Daniel Torday, "James Wood and the Pitfalls of Writing on Writing," Kenyon Review
- William Deresiewicz, "How Wood Works: The Riches and Limits of James Wood," The Nation
- Daniel Green, "Beyond the Literary," The Reading Experience
- John Banville, "The Prime of James Wood," New York Review
Peter Conrad (Observer), Christopher Tayler (Guardian), DJ Taylor (Independent), Louis Bayard (Salon), Walter Kirn (NYT), Matt Shaer (CSM), David Gates (Newsweek), Peter Kemp (Times), Sophie Ratcliffe (TLS), Thomas Jones (Telegraph), Judith Shulevitz (Slate), Delia Falconer (Australian), Luke Slattery (Australian)
And:
Rohan Maitzen (The Valve), Keith Phipps (AV Club), Melinda Harvey (SMH), Pradeep Sebastian (The Hindu), Lev Grossman (Time), James Ley (The Age), Charles Matthews (SFGate), Nathan Whitlock (The Star), Jonathan Derbyshire (New Statesman), Christopher Tilghman (Washington Post), John Freeman (Times)
Don't forget the ongoing blog, Contra James Wood, at
:
http://contrajameswood.blogspot.com/
(I have a feeling you won't like it)
Posted by: EC | 12/30/2008 at 09:23