How to Read a Novel: The 5 Best Books of Criticism, Picked by John Freeman
Art of Fiction
John Freeman, the former editor of Granta and author of the new book How to Read a Novelist, knows his literary reviews—he has written for almost 200 publications around the world. He picks his favorite books of criticism, from Updike to Edwidge Danticat.
For 20 months, between marriages, John Updike lived alone in Boston, “my foam-rubber reading chair three paces from my dining table and two paces from my bed.”
