The Great Dissembler

From the LRB letters page: [ 21 May 1998 ] Andrew Gow [ 4 June 1998 ] James Wood.

James Wood’s How Fiction Works is just out. He is also the author of The Broken Estate: Essays on Literature and Belief and is a staff writer at the New Yorker.

Other articles by this contributor:

The Slightest Sardine · a literary dragnet

Bohumil Hrabal · the life, times, letters and politics of Czech novelist Bohumil Hrabal

Nothing in a Really Big Way · Adam Mars-Jones

Gossip in Gilt · John Updike’s Licks of Love

Credulity · ‘Life of Pi’

Fundamentally Goyish · Zadie Smith

A Long Day at the Chocolate Bar Factory · David Bezmozgis

Addicted to Unpredictability · Knut Hamsun