James Wood is a bit outside the scope of the blog in the midst of #ReadWomen2014, but he's married to Clare Messud, author of The Woman Upstairs so it seemed like a good time to talk about The Fun Stuff, one of several collections of literary criticism and essays he has published. Wood is a literary critic for The New Yorker and his 2008 book How Fiction Works is one many of you have probably encountered. The Fun Stuff, however, is more of a random assortment of essays and criticism, less focused than How Fiction Works, although it is largely concerned with fiction and the novel.
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Editor's Note: Shelf Hues is a recurring visual post of books I'm enjoying, arranged by color. I can't organize my library this way, but it looks pretty.