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: Addicted to Unpredictability · Knut Hamsun Mixed Feelings · Italo Svevo’s Last Cigarette At the tent flap sin crouches · The Fleshpots of Egypt A Long Day at the Chocolate Bar Factory · David Bezmozgis A Frog’s Life · Coetzee’s Confessions Fundamentally Goyish · Zadie Smith Nothing in a Really Big Way · Adam Mars-Jones Bohumil Hrabal · the life, times, letters and politics of Czech novelist Bohumil Hrabal |