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: A Frog’s Life · Coetzee’s Confessions Puffed Wheat · How serious is John Bayley? Damaged Beasts · Peter Carey’s ‘Theft’ The Slightest Sardine · a literary dragnet Fundamentally Goyish · Zadie Smith The Lie-World · D.B.C. Pierre Gossip in Gilt · John Updike’s Licks of Love Addicted to Unpredictability · Knut Hamsun |