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...James Wood??s popular class “Postwar British and American Fiction,” the first half of a lecture is invariably devoted to Wood reading aloud his favorite excerpts from the book under discussion. “Flip to page twenty-nine where Nabokov writes, ‘The cat, as Pnin would say, cannot be hid in a bag.’” Wood grins, before eagerly pushing forward, “Ah, yes, yes! There’s a great bit four pages earlier when Pnin gets dentures and Nabokov describes...
...meant. He leans back chuckling in his chair before reassuringly answering, “Oh, I don’t have much to say about that bit. I’ve just always found it a good laugh.” Looking back on the class, I now realize Wood??s response is the most genuine reaction to the passage...
Review: You must love cheese for this one, so be sure to have it on a day when the dhall is serving up slices you like. Definitely go for Wood??s special dressing—it takes the sandwich beyond the ordinary mix of flavors...
...hall buzz-sawing this random piece of wood??He fixed the bed perfectly,” Ehrlich says. “And I saw him at practice two hours later...
...Holland and survived the Holocaust by assuming a Dutch identity. After the war he moved around, living in Israel and returning to Vienna for a while, but finally settled in London. Lind began his literary career by publishing a collection of short stories “Soul of Wood?? and continued to write in both German and English...