James Wood (post 3): “One Writer Divided…Two critical voices vying” says New York Times print edition headline/subtitle for review of literary critic’s essays

“Early in his career, James Wood, the commanding…literary critic at The New Yorker…used a pseudonym. He published serious pieces under his own name, but his…short, 50-word reviews churned out for money were the work of one Douglas Graham (Wood’s two middle names)…

“I thought often of Douglas Graham while reading “Serious Noticing,” a new collection of Wood’s writing. Two voices vie in this book…

“For all the institutional authority Wood possesses, one of the great pleasures he takes in criticism seems to be the opportunity for self-forgetfulness. He speaks admiringly of artists who merge with their work: …Naipaul is ‘colonized’ by his characters; Chekhov transforms into them…”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/14/books/review-serious-noticing-james-wood.html

Does Wood’s being a “writer divided,” with “two critical voices vying,” each voice with its own name (regular name and pseudonym), plus his admiration for “artists who merge with their work” (whose identities are changeable and prone to transformation) mean that Wood has multiple personality trait? The Times’ review inadvertently raises the issue.

My main past post on Wood (post 2) is a comment on his Introduction to Sartre’s novel, “Nausea.” Wood fails to seriously notice—in fact, he totally ignores—the protagonist’s prominently described “sudden transformations,” his dissociative fugues (a typical symptom of multiple personality).