Earlier today John pointed toward Nigel Beale’s cleverly-titled criticism of my post “Tiny Shocks: Uncovering the Reductive Plot of James…
“[T]he pseudo-intellectuals at Big Other…”
Nigel Beale, a “writer, broadcaster, bibliophile,” and, it appears, fan of and apologist for James Wood, insults Big Other’s contributors…
Tiny Shocks: Uncovering the Reductive Plot of James Wood’s How Fiction Works
[Update: As if this post weren’t long enough, there’s now a Part 2.] On January 22, I read Shya Scanlon’s…
Uncover Your Tracks: A Preliminary Critique of James Wood’s How Fiction Works
Shya posted something two days ago about James Wood’s How Fiction Works, in which Wood advocates the use of “free…
Cover your tracks
I’m (still) reading How Fiction Works, by James Wood. The entire book is built around a concept he calls “free…