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“The basic premise for Lightning Rods is so audacious that it might be hard to get past its general conceit, but its true brilliance lies in DeWitt’s careful deployment of language so common that we no longer see it. As any million-dollar litigation lawyer or two-cent literary critic will tell you, the devil is in the details.”

— Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times Book Review on Helen DeWitt's Lightning Rods

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Filter: Contemporary literature - (48 titles)

Heinrich Von Kleist: The Major Works

Heinrich Von Kleist: The Major Works

Written On The Sky

Written On The Sky

Child Of Nature

Child Of Nature

Travesty

Travesty

A Devil In Paradise

A Devil In Paradise

The Man In The Wall

The Man In The Wall

The August Sleepwalker

The August Sleepwalker

Literary Essays Of Ezra Pound

Literary Essays Of Ezra Pound

Selected Poems of Eugenio Montale

Selected Poems of Eugenio Montale

Death On The Installment Plan

Death On The Installment Plan

Toddler-Hunting And Other Stories

Toddler-Hunting And Other Stories

Blue Light In The Sky

Blue Light In The Sky

Configurations

Configurations

One Hundred More Poems From The Japanese

One Hundred More Poems From The Japanese

Vertigo

Vertigo

Landscape Over Zero

Landscape Over Zero

Women Poets Of Japan

Women Poets Of Japan

Women Poets Of China

Women Poets Of China

Pound/Ford

Pound/Ford

Lillelord

Lillelord

Mallarme In Prose

Mallarme In Prose

The Wall

The Wall

Poor White

Poor White

Something To Say

Something To Say

Albert Angelo

Albert Angelo

How German Is It

How German Is It

The Lorca Variations

The Lorca Variations

Dictionary Of Accepted Ideas

Dictionary Of Accepted Ideas

War And War

War And War

Dangerous Acquaintances

Dangerous Acquaintances

E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster

Tres

Tres

Dark Back Of Time

Dark Back Of Time

Written Lives

Written Lives

The Three Fates

The Three Fates

Incarnate: Story Material

Incarnate: Story Material

Deep River

Deep River

The Yellow Arrow

The Yellow Arrow

Forms Of Distance

Forms Of Distance

Annam

Annam

When I Was Mortal

When I Was Mortal

Hourmaster

Hourmaster

Lightning Rods

Lightning Rods

Bernhard

Bernhard

The Hall of the Singing Caryatids

The Hall of the Singing Caryatids

Sweet Days Of Discipline

Sweet Days Of Discipline

Drought

Drought

Crossing Borders

Crossing Borders

New Directions was founded in 1936, when James Laughlin (1914 - 1997), then a twenty-two-year-old Harvard sophomore, issued the first of the New Directions anthologies. "I asked Ezra Pound for 'career advice,'" James Laughlin recalled. "He had been seeing my poems for months and had ruled them hopeless. He urged me to finish Harvard and then do 'something' useful."

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