Too Many AlibisJames Wood
This article is not currently available online. Buy reprint of this article. From the LRB letters page: [ 29 July 1999 ] W.S. Milne. 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: Nothing in a Really Big Way · Adam Mars-Jones At the tent flap sin crouches · The Fleshpots of Egypt The Lie-World · D.B.C. Pierre Credulity · ‘Life of Pi’ A Frog’s Life · Coetzee’s Confessions Gossip in Gilt · John Updike’s Licks of Love The Slightest Sardine · a literary dragnet Addicted to Unpredictability · Knut Hamsun |