Background
Wood, James was born in 1965 in Durham, England.
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The Broken Estate: Essays on Literature and Belief
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The Irresponsible Self: On Laughter and the Novel by James Wood (1-Sep-2005) Paperback
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The Irresponsible Self: On Laughter and the Novel
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"James Wood has been called our best young critic. This is not true. He is our best critic; he thinks with a sublime ferocity."--Cynthia Ozick Following the collection The Broken Estate--which established James Wood as the leading critic of his generation--The Irresponsible Self confirms Wood's preeminence, not only as a discerning judge but also as an appreciator of contemporary novels. In twenty-three passionate, sparkling dispatches, he effortlessly connects his encyclopedic, passionate understanding of the literary canon with an equally earnest and appreciative view of the most discussed authors writing today, including Franzen, Pynchon, Rushdie, DeLillo, Naipaul, David Foster Wallace, and Zadie Smith. This collection includes Wood's famous and controversial attack on "hysterical realism", and his sensitive but unsparing examinations of White Teeth and Brick Lane. The Irresponsible Self is indispensable reading for anyone who cares about modern fiction.
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The Broken Estate: Essays on Literature and Belief Paperback - May 25, 2010
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(The Irresponsible Self: On Laughter and the Novel) Author: James Wood published on (April, 2005)
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The Irresponsible Self: On Laughter and the Novel
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The Book Against God: A Novel
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Thomas Bunting while neglecting his philosophy Ph.D., still unfinished after seven years, is secretly writing what he hopes will be his masterwork--a vast atheistic project to be titled The Book Against God. In despair over his failed academic career and failing marriage, Bunting is also enraged to the point of near lunacy by his parents' religiousness. When his father, a beloved parish priest, suddenly falls ill, Bunting returns to the Northern village of his childhood. Bunting's hopes that this visit might enable him to finally talk honestly with his parents and sort out his wayward life, are soon destroyed. Comic, edgy, lyrical, and indignant Bunting gives the term unreliable narrator a new twist with his irrepressible incapacity to tell the truth.
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(The Broken Estate: Essays on Literature and Belief) Author: James Wood published on (March, 2000)
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James Wood
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Education
Attended, Eton College.
Career
Editor-at-large Kenyon Review. Editorial board London Review of Books. Chief literature critic The Guardian, London, since 1990.
Senior editor The New Republic, Washington, since 1996. Professor, practice literature criticism Harvard University, since 2003. Staff writer The New Yorker, 2007.
Achievements
Works
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The Irresponsible Self: On Laughter and the Novel
( "James Wood has been called our best young critic. This...)
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The Book Against God: A Novel
( Thomas Bunting while neglecting his philosophy Ph.D., s...)
- The Broken Estate Essays On Literature And Belief Advance Uncorrected Proof
- The Broken Estate: Essays on Literature and Belief
- The Irresponsible Self: On Laughter and the Novel by James Wood (1-Sep-2005) Paperback
- The Broken Estate: Essays on Literature and Belief Paperback - May 25, 2010
- (The Irresponsible Self: On Laughter and the Novel) Author: James Wood published on (April, 2005)
- The Irresponsible Self: On Laughter and the Novel
- The Broken Estate: Essays on Literature and Belief by James Wood (2-Mar-2000) Paperback
- (The Broken Estate: Essays on Literature and Belief) Author: James Wood published on (March, 2000)
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The Irresponsible Self: On Laughter and the Novel
Membership
Fellow: American Academy Arts & Sciences.
Connections
Married Claire Messud. 2 children.
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Nationality
British