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...example Wood cites is To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, one of his favorite authors. Wood doesn’t allow his reverence to dissuade his critical eye—it’s easy, he says, to forget that “it was constructed word by word by a suffering, sometimes joyless, woman in Sussex...
...Wood believes that studying contemporary fiction “might encourage [students] to evaluate canonical works as well...
...Wood got his start as a critic immediately after college. During his time at Jesus College in Cambridge he won a prestigious prize sponsored by the Guardian for his undergraduate journalism. After he graduated he wrote to the Guardian’s literary editor and asked for a job. He got it, but his early assignments were short—five to eight-hundred word reviews. He later became deputy editor of the magazine’s book page, but even that didn’t yield the sort of expansive, in-depth criticism he longed...
...really not until I got to the States that I got to do longer [reviews],” he says. Wood began working at the New Republic in 1995, which allowed him to write much longer pieces...
...idea of migrating between these two worlds is a significant one, particularly because the division has only recently developed. “Until the late nineteenth century,” Wood notes, “criticism was done by writers…[Henry] James, [Samuel Taylor] Coleridge…there’s a reason why James’s criticisms seem congruous with his novels. I don’t think there’s much difference, in James’s mind, between writing a novel and writing a book [of criticism...