{"product_id":"serious-noticing-selected-essays-1997-2019-9781250785701","title":"Serious Noticing: Selected Essays, 1997-2019","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe definitive collection of literary essays by \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e's award-winning longtime book critic\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEver since the publication of his first essay collection, \u003ci\u003eThe Broken Estate\u003c\/i\u003e, in 1999, James Wood has been widely regarded as a leading literary critic of the English-speaking world. His essays on canonical writers (Gustav Flaubert, Herman Melville), recent legends (Don DeLillo, Marilynne Robinson) and significant contemporaries (Zadie Smith, Elena Ferrante) have established a standard for informed and incisive appreciation, composed in a distinctive literary style all their own. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTogether, Wood's essays, and his bestselling \u003ci\u003eHow Fiction Works\u003c\/i\u003e, share an abiding preoccupation with how fiction tells its own truths, and with the vocation of the writer in a world haunted by the absence of God. In \u003ci\u003eSerious Noticing\u003c\/i\u003e, Wood collects his best essays from two decades of his career, supplementing earlier work with autobiographical reflections from his book \u003ci\u003eThe Nearest Thing to Life\u003c\/i\u003e and recent essays from \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e on young writers of extraordinary promise. The result is an essential guide to literature in the new millennium.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/23\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250785701\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 528","brand":"James Wood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":38351870361781,"sku":"9781250785701","price":29.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_42894e5a-f3e6-4c99-9253-a627bf1c52ef.jpg?v=1611649930","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/serious-noticing-selected-essays-1997-2019-9781250785701","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}