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James Wood

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James Wood is a book critic at The New Yorker and the recipient of a National Magazine Award in criticism. He is the author of several previous essay collections, the novel The Book Against God, and the study How Fiction Works. He is a professor of the practice of literary criticism at Harvard University.

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Afternoon Raag

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THE OLD NICK DEVLIN

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Serious Noticing

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Paula's Place, part 2: Surrender

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Paula's Place, part 1: Seduction

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Paula's Place, part 3: Submission

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A Cat Named Spider

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Upstate

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Caught

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The Doctrine of Venus

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The Broken Estate

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Nausea

Jean-Paul Sartre
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The Book of Common Prayer

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The Fun Stuff

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Austerlitz

W.G. Sebald
The Foundations of Aesthetics (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) book cover

The Foundations of Aesthetics (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

C. K. Ogden
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How Fiction Works

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The Irresponsible Self

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The Book Against God

James Wood
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