The caliber of umbrage it rouses in me cannot be contained by my usual disparagements.
I’m thrilled to announce that Colson Whitehead has joined our discussion review. Well, OK, not quite…but he did pen a rib-tickling pastiche of How Fiction Works–“Wow, Fiction Works!”– in Harper’s (digested-read style). Fellow Wood readers (and really anyone), enjoy.
Here’s a taste:
Of the “perfect” sentence The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog, Whitehead-as-Wood writes:
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