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May 24, 2003 

Critic at the Mercy of His Own Kind
By DINITIA SMITH

WASHINGTON — James Wood, variously described as the
most brutal, the most loathed, the most respected
literary critic of his time, was struggling along the
street, his body "pretzelized," as he puts it, from a
muscle he pulled playing with his 2-year-old daughter,
Livia. 

And oh, is he vulnerable these days. As book critic
for The New Republic, he has been merciless in
debunking many esteemed writers of the age — Don
DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison and Salman
Rushdie, whose recent novel, "Fury," Mr. Wood wrote
"exhausts negative superlatives."
 
Now, he is about to publish his own first novel, "The
Book Against God" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), about a
young man, Tom Bunting, the son of a country vicar,
who is undergoing a crisis of faith. Tom is a chronic
liar, his wife has left him, his career is a mess and
he is writing, yes, a book against God. 

James Wood the novelist is fair game. [...] 

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<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/24/books/24WOOD.html>

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