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CONTRA JAMES WOOD: November 2011
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The emperor has no clothes. BAD PAPER: The Bursting of the Fiction Bubble". November 19, 2011. James Wood tries to staunch the hemorrhaging of his critical reputation by making an ill-advised appearance in a comments thread at The Millions. I can just imagine the scene: pacing in his study in frantic, narrowing circles - he's snapped at the housekeeper, Consuela, three times already today! But no. Here are some highlights. 1:07 pm on November 16, 2011):. 1:07 pm on Nov. 17, 2011):. Of course, he does so ...
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CONTRA JAMES WOOD: Fiction Ain't All The New Yorker Domesticates
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The emperor has no clothes. BAD PAPER: The Bursting of the Fiction Bubble". August 9, 2010. Fiction Ain't All The New Yorker Domesticates. From the blog " Have a Good Time. Entitled "What the New Yorker doesn't publish":. For starters, this letter:. To the Editor,. While I was glad to see praising reviews of poets Rae Armantrout and Anne Carson in recent issues, I was somewhat disturbed by their contents. Meghan O’Rourke’s review of Carson’s “Nox,”. Making fun of how black people speak. Excuse me, 50!
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CONTRA JAMES WOOD: July 2010
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The emperor has no clothes. BAD PAPER: The Bursting of the Fiction Bubble". July 28, 2010. The Erudite Mr. Wood, Part Deux. Would you buy a used car. Nigel Wood has done us the service of directing our attention to a. Of Hershel Parker’s remarks at Amazon.com on James Wood and the Melville chapter of. The first part of which I had cited in my previous. According to Wood, I had confessed that in writing this "biography" (or "semi-biography"? Reviews, Parker’s biography has succeeded in becoming a st...
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CONTRA JAMES WOOD: Dept of Filthy Neocon Litcritter Lies
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The emperor has no clothes. BAD PAPER: The Bursting of the Fiction Bubble". August 26, 2010. Dept of Filthy Neocon Litcritter Lies. I'm taking the liberty of reposting in its entirety this. Concise exposé of kultur-kaiser Adam Kirsch by Steven Augustine from The Endless Thread. Of Slavoj Zizek in which he condemned the Slovenian philosopher/provocateur for being "fatally attracted to violence." These were published in the New Republic. A magazine psychopathically attracted to violence. 8220;The long cent...
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CONTRA JAMES WOOD: Christmas Comes Early
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The emperor has no clothes. BAD PAPER: The Bursting of the Fiction Bubble". November 19, 2011. James Wood tries to staunch the hemorrhaging of his critical reputation by making an ill-advised appearance in a comments thread at The Millions. I can just imagine the scene: pacing in his study in frantic, narrowing circles - he's snapped at the housekeeper, Consuela, three times already today! But no. Here are some highlights. 1:07 pm on November 16, 2011):. 1:07 pm on Nov. 17, 2011):. Of course, he does so ...
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CONTRA JAMES WOOD: James and the Giant Sentence
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The emperor has no clothes. BAD PAPER: The Bursting of the Fiction Bubble". December 15, 2008. James and the Giant Sentence. If a novel isn’t an instance of. To begin with, yet James Wood needs to give it a positive review, then he has got to find ways to domesticate it. 160;can always be cast into the outer darkness, but sometimes the craftier course is to see if they can’t be neutered, de-clawed, housebroken. No, domestic fiction, it turns out, is ultimately a way of seeing, a way of reading. These pla...
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CONTRA JAMES WOOD: August 2010
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The emperor has no clothes. BAD PAPER: The Bursting of the Fiction Bubble". August 26, 2010. Dept of Filthy Neocon Litcritter Lies. I'm taking the liberty of reposting in its entirety this. Concise exposé of kultur-kaiser Adam Kirsch by Steven Augustine from The Endless Thread. Of Slavoj Zizek in which he condemned the Slovenian philosopher/provocateur for being "fatally attracted to violence." These were published in the New Republic. A magazine psychopathically attracted to violence. 8220;The long cent...
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CONTRA JAMES WOOD: The Erudite Mr. Wood
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The emperor has no clothes. BAD PAPER: The Bursting of the Fiction Bubble". July 26, 2010. The Erudite Mr. Wood. Picador (a division of Macmillan, which in turn is a subsidiary of the Holtzbrinck Publishing. Is bringing out a new edition of. 8217;s first collection of literary journalism,. The Broken Estate: Essays on Literature and Credulity. It’s got a new introduction by the author, a new cover design to bring it in line with the quaintly (and appropriately) old-fashioned look of. Not very. Take t...
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CONTRA JAMES WOOD: The Erudite Mr. Wood, Part Deux
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The emperor has no clothes. BAD PAPER: The Bursting of the Fiction Bubble". July 28, 2010. The Erudite Mr. Wood, Part Deux. Would you buy a used car. Nigel Wood has done us the service of directing our attention to a. Of Hershel Parker’s remarks at Amazon.com on James Wood and the Melville chapter of. The first part of which I had cited in my previous. According to Wood, I had confessed that in writing this "biography" (or "semi-biography"? Reviews, Parker’s biography has succeeded in becoming a st...
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