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James Wood has something important to say. There is a lot to digest here. Much contemporary writing fetishizes style, and the priority is felt as a constant anxiety. Prose has to sign itself, establish its showy authority in silvery cutlass swipes through the air: clever insights, brilliant metaphors, unusual words, sharp observation, perpetually buoyant dialogue ... But novels are not best built out of one-liners, and long novels of one-liners drum an insistent, madly intermittent tattoo.
Posted on: Tue, 02 Sep 2014 12:45:27 +0000

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