The Fun Stuff And Other Essays

Author: James Wood

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  • : February 2014
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Description

Following The Broken Estate, The Irresponsible Self, and How Fiction Works- books that established James Wood as the leading critic of his generation - The Fun Stuffconfirms Wood's pre-eminence, not only as a discerning judge but also as an appreciator of the contemporary novel. In twenty-three passionate, sparkling dispatches - that range over such crucial writers as Thomas Hardy, Leo Tolstoy, and Edmund Wilson - Wood offers a panoramic look at the modern novel. He effortlessly connects his encyclopaedic, eloquent understanding of the literary canon with an equally in-depth analysis of the most important authors writing today, including Cormac McCarthy, Kazuo Ishiguro, and V.S. Naipaul.Included in The Fun Stuffare the title essay on Keith Moon and the lost joys of drumming - which was a finalist for last year's National Magazine Awards - as well as Wood's essay on George Orwell, which Christopher Hitchens selected for the Best American Essays 2010. The Fun Stuffis indispensable reading for anyone who cares about contemporary literature.

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A passionate and effusive outlook on the contemporary literary landscape, from one of its most accomplished critics and appraisers.

Author description

James Wood is a staff writer at The New Yorker and a visiting lecturer at Harvard. In addition to How Fiction Works, he is the author of two essay collections, The Broken Estate and The Irresponsible Self, and a novel, The Book Against God.