Jonathan Lethem did not like James Wood's review

[Tom Beshear]

I was amazed to read in that piece that Wood's wrote a long review of 
Fortress of Solitude without mentioning the magic ring.

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From: "David Morris" <fqmorris at gmail.com>
To: "Robert Mahnke" <rpmahnke at gmail.com>
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Sent: Monday, November 07, 2011 3:27 PM
Subject: Re: Jonathan Lethem did not like James Wood's review


Key statement:

"Earlier I’d been content to sustain a cloudy image of a persuasive
new critic who made people excited and nervous by passionately
attacking novels that people (including myself) passionately believed
in; now I found myself content to revise that in favor of an
impression of a unpersuasive critic whose air of erudite amplitude
veiled — barely — a punitive parochialism."

On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Robert Mahnke <rpmahnke at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://lareviewofbooks.org/post/12467824780/my-disappointment-critic
>