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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: southern writers - (20 titles)

A House Not Meant To Stand

A House Not Meant To Stand

Antipoems: How To Look Better & Feel Great

Antipoems: How To Look Better & Feel Great

Eight Mortal Ladies Possessed

Eight Mortal Ladies Possessed

The Collected Poems Of Tennessee Williams

The Collected Poems Of Tennessee Williams

Sweet Bird Of Youth

Sweet Bird Of Youth

Camino Real

Camino Real

Memoirs

Memoirs

27 Wagons Full Of Cotton

27 Wagons Full Of Cotton

The Glass Menagerie (Centennial Edition)

The Glass Menagerie (Centennial Edition)

The Selected Letters Vol. II: 1946-1957

The Selected Letters Vol. II: 1946-1957

Traveling Companion

Traveling Companion

The Magic Tower And Other One-Act Plays

The Magic Tower And Other One-Act Plays

Candles To The Sun

Candles To The Sun

A Streetcar Named Desire

A Streetcar Named Desire

Cat On A Hot Tin Roof

Cat On A Hot Tin Roof

Tales Of Desire

Tales Of Desire

The Rose Tattoo

The Rose Tattoo

Where I Live

Where I Live

The Night Of The Iguana

The Night Of The Iguana

Mister Paradise & Other One Act Plays

Mister Paradise & Other One Act Plays

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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