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Article: James Wood: 'I Won't Go Soft' at The New Yorker.
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- The New York Observer (New York, NY)
- Article date:
- August 14, 2007
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James Wood has had a standing offer to join the staff of The New Yorker for about as long as people have been calling him the best literary critic in the world.
Until recently, Mr. Wood did not want to go. He had contributed to the magazine a handful of times since moving to the United States from Great Britain in 1995, but the vast majority of his writing from that period went to The New Republic, where he had been serving under the magazine's famously combustible literary editor Leon Wieseltier.
Two weeks ago, Mr. Wood informed Mr. Wieseltier that New Yorker editor David Remnick had made a new offer, and that he had decided to accept. The deal was ...