Gems (2)

I've been dipping into 'How Fiction Works' by James Wood.  I got it in May 2011 and skim it now and then. Written in very short sections, there are some gems, though sometimes it's a little hardgoing,  a lot of detail about texts I haven't read. And quite a bit on Flaubert and  style indirect libre,  which I vaguely recall from French lectures.

Speaking about the writer Henry Green's attitude to dialogue, Wood says: 'Green argued that dialogue is the best way to communicate...