James Wood is back

[Mark Kohut]

or "Why not pluck a few words from the multitudes rushing toward the
Void of forgetfulness?" ---M &D p/ 747.

On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 7:31 PM, Jerome Park <jeromepark3141 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> By fixing on humdrum domestic details, novels, he says, redeem life and
>> rescue it from its sad ephemerality; a book is not solitary, like the person
>> who reads it, but dispenses "proximity, fellow-feeling, compassion,
>> communion".
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> Humdrum domestic details?
> Is this what novels fix on?
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> What of Romance, Gothic, Sensationalism....?
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