Watering the DustJames Wood
This article is not currently available online. Buy reprint of this article. From the LRB letters page: [ 28 October 1999 ] William Myers [ 25 November 1999 ] James Wood [ 6 January 2000 ] Dominic Kirkham. 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: At the tent flap sin crouches · The Fleshpots of Egypt The Slightest Sardine · a literary dragnet Puffed Wheat · How serious is John Bayley? Gossip in Gilt · John Updike’s Licks of Love Nothing in a Really Big Way · Adam Mars-Jones Addicted to Unpredictability · Knut Hamsun Fundamentally Goyish · Zadie Smith Mixed Feelings · Italo Svevo’s Last Cigarette |