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RamblingJames WoodThis article is not currently available online. Buy reprint of this article. 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: Bohumil Hrabal · the life, times, letters and politics of Czech novelist Bohumil Hrabal At the tent flap sin crouches · The Fleshpots of Egypt The Lie-World · D.B.C. Pierre Mixed Feelings · Italo Svevo’s Last Cigarette Gossip in Gilt · John Updike’s Licks of Love The Slightest Sardine · a literary dragnet Damaged Beasts · Peter Carey’s ‘Theft’ Addicted to Unpredictability · Knut Hamsun |
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