The Great DissemblerJames Wood
This article is not currently available online. Buy reprint of this article. 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 Puffed Wheat · How serious is John Bayley? Addicted to Unpredictability · Knut Hamsun Bohumil Hrabal · the life, times, letters and politics of Czech novelist Bohumil Hrabal Gossip in Gilt · John Updike’s Licks of Love Fundamentally Goyish · Zadie Smith A Frog’s Life · Coetzee’s Confessions Nothing in a Really Big Way · Adam Mars-Jones |