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How Fiction Works, and how this review doesn't
I keep citing James Wood’s How Fiction Works without writing about it directly because the book feels so whole that it lacks the typical cracks that offer handholds. It asks the right questions … more »
The Story's Story
Controversial Franzen
kristynwinters wrote 1 day ago: For anyone who follows the controversy that is Jonathan Franzen and The Corrections, here is Santiag … more »
Literature and science fiction redux, with taste as a bonus
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Jake Seliger wrote 2 weeks ago: Science Fiction, literature, and the haters spawned great comments and e-mails, including responses … more »
To the Lighthouse
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Jake Seliger wrote 2 weeks ago: Are people afraid of Virginia Woolf, per the Edward Albee play, because she’s got the reputati … more »
More on-line sanctioned ignorance: in defense of Tom Wolfe and others
Jake Seliger wrote 1 month ago: James Wood wrote a typically fascinating piece to Nigel Beale defending “lifeness,” or s … more »
Memorial Day Links
Jake Seliger wrote 1 month ago: * Mark Sarvas appeared in Seattle, as announced, and… no one showed up except yours truly. Way … more »
The Barren Governess: The James Wood Snafu
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Steven Augustine wrote 1 month ago: James Wood, noted literary and film critic, has, apparently, written an email critical of comm … more »
Life: Flight edition
Jake Seliger wrote 1 month ago: “And at a height of three miles, sitting above the clouds, I felt like an airborne seed. From … more »
Wood vs. Franzen
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Mark Athitakis wrote 2 months ago: The Harvard Crimson does a nice job covering last night’s public discussion between James Wood … more »
How fiction works
Guru wrote 3 months ago: After fantasy, it is only fair that we ask the question, namely, how does fiction work? Pradeep Seba … more »
Senior Citizens And Virgins
cactusbeetroot wrote 3 months ago: Yes, Arrogance Yesterday, last-minute corrections to one of the papers I’m supposed to do (a t … more »
Life
Jake Seliger wrote 3 months ago: “We liked wasting time, but almost nothing was more annoying than having our wasted time waste … more »
James Wood's Last Supper...and Robocop
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feralfish wrote 3 months ago: Click picture for full size. A table full of James Wood sitting down to The Last Supper. And Roboco … more »
DVD: Shark - Series One
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Movies@the-void wrote 4 months ago: “House with lawyers” is the best way to describe this super-slick American import. The p … more »
The Constant Flicker of Different and Self-Cancelling Perceptions
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Deborah Barlow wrote 4 months ago: J. M. Coetzee. I am in awe of his work, even though its textures, angles and palettes are so differ … more »
Saturday Miscellany
Mark Athitakis wrote 5 months ago: The New York Times Book Review’s Web site excerpts the first chapter of Charles Bock’s B … more »
Life: Wood on Woolf
Jake Seliger wrote 7 months ago: “[... Woolf's] essays and reviews are a writer’s criticism, written in the language of a … more »
The Book Against God
Jake Seliger wrote 7 months ago: The Book Against God starts with a great sentence—”I denied my father three times, twice bef … more »
The New Yorker, me and Christianity
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Megan wrote 8 months ago: My two favorite magazines are The Economist Magazine and The New Yorker. The writing in both public … more »
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
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Elizabeth wrote 8 months ago: James Wood was stunned like a downer beef by the cliches of pulp fiction in No Country for Old Men. … more »
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