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...Spencer T. Wu, the program’s manager. “We hope to increase opportunities for young investigators to recognize the Air Force’s mission and the related challenges in science and engineering,” Wu said. One of the primary projects of Wood??s lab is to create a flying robotic insect. “We want to try to answer some fundamental questions that exist in both biology and engineering pertaining to organisms and devices that flap their wings for propulsion,” Wood said. Wood is approaching this question...
...Fiction Works.” “In my defense, I did not want the book to be called ‘How Fiction Works,’” Wood, who is also a literary critic for The New Yorker, joked. In fact, Wood??s intended title for the book—“The Nearest Thing To Life”—would have been in keeping with his lecture’s primary topic, the creation of vivid and effective characters in writing. Arguing against E.M. Forster’s distinction...
...love to rip apart English professor James Wood??s distilled volume of literary wisdom with a series of detached, postmodern, snarling riffs. But I can’t. “How Fiction Works” is just too pleasant a read. With a soft, avuncular tone, Wood sets out to investigate a fundamental question—how authors utilize both verisimilitude and artifice to invoke the real—by surveying a series of writing fundamentals. He weaves in and out of novels and ideas through a series of thought-stanzas until reaching his goal: a satisfying...
...said. “It didn’t seem as if any novel could really survive that rivalry, something so massive. But of course, this novel not only survived, but enormously prospered.” Franzen said only that he was “disappointed” with Wood??s review of “The Corrections,” but quickly took aim at critics more generally. “The reviews tend to be repetitive and tend to be so filled with error that they’re kind of unbearable to read, even...
...pretty sure that I’ll go to do these two years in the UK, I’ll come back to the U.S. and do my Ph.D, and then hopefully”—she knocks on wood??“get a job and try to publish a lot and maybe get tenure someday.”Although she sounds optimistic about editing her thesis into a series of journal-length articles, she grows most hopeful when she talks of publishing her verse.“I’d say that most...