JAMES WOOD is a British-born literary critic, essayist, and novelist. He is Professor of the Practice of Literary Criticism at Harvard University and a staff writer at the New Yorker magazine.
"[These] conversational essays [are] as illuminating in their quiet
sophistication as they are revealing about Wood himself."--
"Newsweek"
"[Wood's] head is the vessel in which the treasures of literature
are gathered to be protected from time. But the treasury Wood
guards is not merely aesthetic: books are safety-deposit boxes for
human affection, like urns that contain words not ashes."-- "The
Guardian"
"Rich in verbal artistry . . . [Wood] provides virtuoso displays of
eloquence and insight."-- "Publishers Weekly"
Offering characteristically sensitive readings of Penelope
Fitzgerald, Chekhov, De Quincey and others, Wood's latest book also
features grand pronouncements about literature of the kind that
have provoked accusations that he is old-fashioned. In this case,
however, he presents a more vulnerable, approachable version of
himself by including details about his own life, as a boy in
England and as a father living in Boston.-- "New York Times Book
Review"
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