Category: On Reading

• Shakespeare 2022: Titus Andronicus

  Notes on Titus Andronicus.

  Daniel Davis Wood

  February 10, 2022

  On Reading

  William Shakespeare

• Shakespeare 2022: Love’s Labour’s Lost

  Notes on Love’s Labour’s Lost.

  Daniel Davis Wood

  February 3, 2022

  On Reading

  William Shakespeare

• Shakespeare 2022: Two Gentlemen of Verona

  Notes on Two Gentlemen of Verona.

  Daniel Davis Wood

  January 27, 2022

  On Reading

  William Shakespeare

• Shakespeare 2022: The Comedy of Errors

  Notes on The Comedy of Errors.

  Daniel Davis Wood

  January 20, 2022

  On Reading

  William Shakespeare

• Shakespeare 2022: The Taming of the Shrew

  Notes on The Taming of the Shrew.

  Daniel Davis Wood

  January 13, 2022

  On Reading

  William Shakespeare

• 2022: The Year of Shakespeare

  Some hopes and intentions for my journey through the complete works of William Shakespeare.

  Daniel Davis Wood

  January 13, 2022

  On Reading

  William Shakespeare

• Difficult Literature and the Skill of Reading

  Some thoughts on reading as a distinct skill, from Mauro Javier Cárdenas, Jessa Crispin, and Zadie Smith.

  Daniel Davis Wood

  May 5, 2021

  On Reading

  Genre Fiction vs. Literary Fiction, Jessa Crispin, Michael Silverblatt, Reading as a Skill, Zadie Smith

• First Things First

  A response to Daniel Green’s comments on Jess Row’s White Flights.

  Daniel Davis Wood

  December 15, 2020

  On Reading

  Reading for Style

• What Is Reading?

  Reflections on reading while revising a novel, and my growing scepticism towards narrative constructs.

  Daniel Davis Wood

  September 23, 2020

  At the Edge of the Solid World, On Reading

  Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich, Eimear McBride, Kathryn Davis

• Heading Into Literature

  Some remarks by Sam Byers on the necessary literariness of contemporary literature.

  Daniel Davis Wood

  June 30, 2019

  On Reading

  Reading for Style, Sam Byers