I’m giving a paper next week on I Was a Communist for the FBI and other scenes of weirdness in 1950′s radio at the Mass Culture Workshop at the University of Chicago. If you’re affiliated, interested or even just available, come tear my argument to shreds and put it back together again. Paper and details [...]
… is an act of discovery: Nigel Beale and Frank Wilson on Michel de Montaigne. … is a way of dealing with change, of internalizing it: Stephen Baxter (and many others) on the uncertain future of fiction about the future. … is an immediate voicing from deep in the brain; a portable art; a way [...]
What should a writer notice; what can a critic contend? Sam Tanenhaus pits Updike against James Wood, which gets Wyatt Mason thinking: “as a form of argumentation, literary criticism is charged with making defensible cases for indefensible positions …” Okay, I like a good mean joke. All the same, it’s pretty dark to pick on [...]
I just got around to reading James Wood’s odd little book, How Fiction Works, which is all over the place nowadays. Blogs, buses, book clubs, everywhere. My notes here are not intended as a review. Suffice it to say that this book is an enjoyable light study on modern literature full of smart sentences and [...]
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