Article: Shaking habit's house: critic James Wood preaches a return to the realism of Flaubert.(How Fiction Works)(Book review)

Article: How James Wood's 'how fiction works' ...
New York;  August 11, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... Over the past two decades, James Wood has established himself as ... many pleasures of reading James Wood. He reads widely, deeply ... industrial vat of molasses with James Wood's Chekhov boner.) This ... calls final seriousness. How fiction Works is largely an outgrowth of ...

Article: A Rave Review for James Wood's How Fiction ...
The New York Observer (New York, NY);  July 15, 2008 ;     372 words ... ... CDATA[ In the back of The New Republic this week is a glowing review by Frank Kermode of James Wood's forthcoming book How Fiction Works. Wood, of course, spent twelve years as The New Republic's chief literary critic before abruptly ...

Article: The Writing of Fiction.(How Fiction Works)(Book ...
Contemporary Review;  June 22, 2009 ;     700+ words ...How Fiction Works. James Wood. Jonathan Cape. [pounds ... all these reasons. How Fiction Works does indeed read like ... expects to be noticed'. James Wood takes us into this familiar ... will find interest in How Fiction Works.

Article: Self-knowledge and self-help; Fiction.('How Fiction ...
The Economist (US);  February 9, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... pleasure in the show. Yet James Wood's enchanting new book, How Fiction Works , analyses how novelists ... touch, Mr Wood's How Fiction Works should delight and enlighten ... readers of fiction. How Fiction Works. By James Wood.

Article: HOW FICTION WORKS.(Book review)
Harvard Review;  December 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ...HOW FICTION WORKS by James Wood Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008, $24.00 cloth, ISBN 9780374173401 ... theory, it is being put upon to defend its existence. So How Fiction Works is more loaded than The Sounds of Poetry because Wood can't show ...

Article: How Fiction Works BOOKS
International Herald Tribune;  August 18, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... Tribune 08-18-2008 How Fiction Works BOOKS Byline: Walter Kirn ... 1 Section: FEATURES How Fiction Works By James Wood 265 pages. $24. Farrar ... two short prefaces to "How Fiction Works," an old-fashioned primer ...

Article: In defence of realism in modern fiction; Young fogie he may be, ...
The Toronto Star (Toronto, Ontario);  October 26, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... Nathan Whitlock Literary critic James Wood, whose writing has been a ... will not be dispelled by How Fiction Works. The title alone is both ... Week of This (ECW). How Fiction Works by James Wood Farrar, Strauss and Giroux ...