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Aesthetics for Birds

What follows is an interview of writer and literary critic James Wood, who is Professor of Literary Practice at Harvard. He is interviewed by Becca Rothfeld, a PhD candidate in philosophy at Harvard, and an essayist, literary critic, and contributor to The New Yorker, the New York Times Book Review, The Atlantic, and more.

James Wood is Professor of Literary Practice at Harvard, a staff writer at The New Yorker, the author of two novels and six books of criticism, and the most exhilarating literary critic alive. He made his name writing long, ambitious, and often searingly negative essays, among them his famed takedown of so-called “hysterical realists” and his evisceration of Paul Auster’s hypermasculine posturing. But I know Wood primarily as a lover of literature, and in recent years, he has done much to champion contemporary novelists, among them Ben Lerner and Teju Cole. Wood is a voracious quoter, and in his pieces he allows the works he loves to speak in their own voices. I love Wood for many reasons, some of whic

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Wood, James 1965-

PERSONAL: Born 1965, in England; married Claire Messud (an author); children: two. Education: Jesus College, Cambridge, M.A., 1988.

ADDRESSES: Home—Cambridge, MA. Offıce—New Republic, 1331 H St. NW, Suite 700, Washington, DC 20005.

CAREER: Guardian, London, England, former chief literary critic, beginning 1991; New Republic, Washington, DC, currently senior editor. Has been a visiting lecturer at Kenyon College and Harvard University.

WRITINGS:

(Editor and author of introduction) Selected Stories ofD. H. Lawrence, Modern Library (New York, NY), 1999.

The Broken Estate: Essays on Literature and Belief, Random House (New York, NY), 1999.

The Book against God (novel), Farrar, Straus & Giroux (New York, NY), 2003.

The Irresponsible Self: On Laughter and the Novel (essays), Farrar, Straus & Giroux (New York, NY), 2004.

Contributor to periodicals, including Atlantic Monthly and New Yorker.

SIDELIGHTS: Considered by many of his colleagues to be one of the most insightful and interesting literary critics writing today, J

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James Wood (critic)

English literary critic, essayist and novelist (born 1965)

James Douglas Graham Wood (born 1 November 1965)^[1] is an English^[a]literary critic, essayist and novelist.

Wood was The Guardian's chief literary critic between 1992 and 1995. He was a senior editor at The New Republic between 1995 and 2007. As of 2014^[update], he is Professor of the Practice of Literary Criticism at Harvard University^[2] and a staff writer at The New Yorker.

Early life and education

James Wood was born in Durham, England, to Dennis William Wood (born 1928), a Dagenham-born minister and professor of zoology at Durham University, and Sheila Graham Wood, née Lillia, a schoolteacher from Scotland.^[3]^[1]

Wood was raised in Durham in an evangelical wing of the Church of England, an environment he describes as austere and serious.^[4] He was educated at Durham Chorister School (on a music scholarship) and at Eton College (with the support of a bursary based on his parents' "demonstrated financial need"