A review by sherwoodreads
How Fiction Works by James Wood

A short book, fizzing with Wood's enthusiasm for reading and books. A tad too male-gaze-as-arbiter-of-judgment to take too seriously, but he offers some good discussion on narrative convention, style, voice, and what he calls free indirect style, which covers those liminal bits that seem to be character/narrator thoughts but may actually be auctorial fiat.

This is the kind of book that is good reading when one wants to look at narrative process from another slant altogether.