Tuesday, September 16, 2008
5:00 pm
Sanders Hall, 212
James Wood. One of the literary leading critics in the world, Wood is a staff writer at the New Yorker and professor of the practice of literary criticism at Harvard University. He was a senior editor at the New Republic, and is now the chief literary critic of The Guardian in London and an editor at large of The Kenyon Review. Wood's reviews and essays have appeared in the New York Times, New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, News from the Republic of Letters and the London Review of Books. Wood will be reading from and discussing his new book, How Fiction Works.
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