Description: "A wry, incisive satire of envy and ambition following a failed novelist's absurd quest to sabotage his more successful rival"--
Brief description: James Wood is a staff writer at The New Yorker and Professor of the Practice of Literary Criticism at Harvard University. He is the author of How Fiction Works, as well as two essay collections, The Broken Estate and The Irresponsible Self, and a novel, The Book Against God.