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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: satire - (32 titles)

Raids On The Unspeakable

Raids On The Unspeakable

Bradovich

Bradovich

Ubu Roi

Ubu Roi

Fortress Besieged

Fortress Besieged

Gorf

Gorf

Sleepers Awake

Sleepers Awake

Guignol’s Band

Guignol’s Band

The Blocked Heart

The Blocked Heart

Traveling Companion

Traveling Companion

The Walking Away World

The Walking Away World

Cronopios And Famas

Cronopios And Famas

Nothing To Pay

Nothing To Pay

The Crime Of Father Amaro

The Crime Of Father Amaro

Senselessness

Senselessness

Lightning Rods

Lightning Rods

Textermination

Textermination

Candles In Babylon

Candles In Babylon

Dictionary Of Accepted Ideas

Dictionary Of Accepted Ideas

Death On The Installment Plan

Death On The Installment Plan

The Life Of Monsieur De Moliere

The Life Of Monsieur De Moliere

Blair

Blair

Paroxisms

Paroxisms

Mrs. October Was Here

Mrs. October Was Here

The Adventures Of Mao On The Long March

The Adventures Of Mao On The Long March

Written Lives

Written Lives

The Night Before Christmas

The Night Before Christmas

Alphabetical Africa

Alphabetical Africa

The Portraits & The Poses

The Portraits & The Poses

The Green Huntsman

The Green Huntsman

The Telegraph

The Telegraph

Pavannes & Divagations

Pavannes & Divagations

Anew

Anew

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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