James Wood is the author of four books of criticism—The Broken Estate, The Irresponsible Self, How Fiction Works and The Fun Stuff—as well as The Book Against God, a novel. He is a staff writer at The New Yorker and teaches at Harvard.
James Wood
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James Wood is the author of four books of criticism—The Broken Estate, The Irresponsible Self, How Fiction Works and The Fun Stuff—as well as The Book Against God, a novel. He is a staff writer at The New Yorker and teaches at Harvard.