The Care and Feeding of FictionJames Wood's critical manifesto is firm, yet flexible.
Posted Tuesday, July 22, 2008, at 7:38 AM ETJames Wood reviewed Louis Begley's About Schmidt and Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain. Jessica Winter used the phrase "hysterical realism" to describe Lynne Tillman's American Genius, A Comedy. Meaghan O'Rourke argued that many new works of fiction might be described as "precocious realism."
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