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January 31, 2010May 19, 2012 - Uncategorized

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…

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January 27, 2010April 30, 2011 - Uncategorized

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…

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