How Fiction Works

Book • 2008

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Amit Varma

as a book that will transform the way you read as you understand the use of voice and how modern novels evolved.

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Robin Waldun

when sharing James Wood's idea that plot is reading and form is literary criticism.

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Joshua Gibbs

as a short and delightful treatise presenting theories on why some fiction prevails and some fails.

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James Wood

as a book he wrote discussing the concept of 'thisness' in literature.

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