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The Fun Stuff: And Other Essays
by
James Wood
Aug. 13, 2017 - Aug. 16, 2017
(read/literary-criticism/essay-collections)
Wood, J. (2012). The Fun Stuff: And Other Essays. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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vicissitudes »
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captious »
(adjective) marked by an often ill-natured inclin…
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censorious »
(adjective) marked by or given to censure; severe…
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mediated »
intervened with, through an intermediary
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rictus »
(noun) the gape of a bird's mouth / (noun) the mo…
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Again, this is funny and wily, but beneath it run…
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[...] "Which do you love more, your family or Alb…
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[...] the abysses in Krasznahorkai are bottomless…
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[...] Has anyone described the way light changes …
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Orwell feared what he most desired: the future. B…
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Thinking: Norman Rush
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Edmund Wilson
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Aleksander Hemon
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Beyond a Boundary: Netherland as Post-Colonial Novel
Joseph O'Neill's Netherland. he mentions Zadie Smith's review of the novel as well (section 260)
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Beyond a Boundary: Netherland as Post-Colonial Novel
Joseph O'Neill's Netherland. he mentions Zadie Smith's review of the novel as well (section 260)
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Wounder and Wounded
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Tolstoy's War and Peace
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Marilynne Robinson
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Lydia Davis
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Richard Yates
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Thomas Hardy
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Geoff Dyer
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Ismail Kadare
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