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How Fiction Works by James Wood

How Fiction Works James Wood ebook
ISBN: 9780312428471
Page: 288
Format: pdf
Publisher: Picador

James Wood, perhaps the most persuasive literary critic right now, has a new book out. I'm left with the As it turns out, I read Rushdie's The Enchantress of Florence at the same time I was reading How Fiction Works. One of the books I decided it was high time I read and so I did was How Fiction Works by James Wood. In case you haven't already done so, head over to Urban Tree and read Stephen Crowe's superbly weighted review of James Wood's How Fiction Works. Every week, I make a little note in my planner to Write a Book Review. I was surprised to find no discussion sympathetic to my notions of 'why fiction works'. Kurt Vonnegut draws some graphs to explain how fiction works, via. That's what makes a fictional city work or fail for me – it works, in context, with the people who inhabit it, they showcase each other. In light of this, it took the gift of his recent book How Fiction Works to be motivated to read it. It is no surprise to see aphorism alive and thriving in our current celebrity climate. And in it, he outlines an approach to writing fiction -- the qualities that separate good from bad fiction. Which he duly does, and then changes the city forever when he invents the gun. How Fiction Works by James Wood. How Fiction Works“, by James Wood, is a recent book with a refreshingly non-instructional approach. This Week: Bad Review Bingo, Some Graphs on How Fiction Works. So sure, I'm happy to know what James Wood says about how fiction works, but I wish I knew what James Wood says about how his brain works on matters having nothing whatsoever to do with fiction. An excellent review/takedown (reviewdown?) of James Wood's How Fiction Works, a book that the instructors at the University of Arizona have, for lack of a better phrase, been shoving down our throats the past year or so. JK Evanczuk / Wednesday, March 24, 2010 View Comments. However, this implies that I should have, each week, read a book that I would like to review. I came to James Wood's How Fiction Works after years of consulting Harold Bloom for my literary opinions, and so what Wood calls “this little book” was for me revelatory. He released HOW FICTION WORKS in 2008, to much critical and popular acclaim (as long as you're ready to pick up his book), in an effort to lay down on paper what he had learn about fiction.