*Wood, James: -James Woodis a staff writer at The New Yorker and Professor of the Practice of Literary Criticism at Harvard University. He is the author of How Fiction Works *, as well as two essay collections, The Broken Estate and The Irresponsible Self, and a novel, The Book Against God.

*Wood, James: -James Woodis a staff writer at The New Yorker and Professor of the Practice of Literary Criticism at Harvard University. He is the author of How Fiction Works *, as well as two essay collections, The Broken Estate and The Irresponsible Self, and a novel, The Book Against God.