Some Trick

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Second the Dewitt rec—and extend it to her entire body of work. The Last Samurai is remarkably beautiful and fun and intelligent. Lightning Rods is very, very funny. Her essays are also very good, whenever/wherever they appear. Glad to see her getting love. 

> On Jul 12, 2018, at 5:18 PM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I haven't read The Life to Come but we do have it in our house. I'll
> have a look. I think I always figured it was very well-written but...
> unambitious? Which describes a lot of Australian literary fiction.
> And I just ordered Some Trick, Robert - those first two reviews sold
> me on it completely.
> 
>> On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 6:19 AM, Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:
>> And I'd like to recommend The Life To Come by Michelle de Kretser.
>> 
>> Don't you know it already, John?
>> 
>> J
>> 
>> 
>> 2018-07-12 21:57 GMT+02:00 Robert Mahnke <rpmahnke at gmail.com>:
>> 
>>> I would like to recommend to this crowd Helen DeWitt's new collection of
>>> stories, Some Trick.
>>> 
>>> More about it here:
>>> 
>>> https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/helen-dewitt/some-trick/
>>> https://www.npr.org/2018/05/29/613148555/some-trick-takes-
>>> on-the-life-of-the-delightfully-irritable-mind
>>> https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/01/books/review/helen-
>>> dewitt-some-trick.html
>>> https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/odds-and-ends-fictive-
>>> probability-in-helen-dewitts-some-trick/
>>> https://themillions.com/2018/05/103277.html
>>> https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/everything-was-a-fake/
>>> https://longreads.com/2018/07/09/getting-tricked-by-helen-
>>> dewitt/?utm_source=ifttt
>>> https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/06/04/helen-dewitt-has-your-number
>>> 
>>> Also:
>>> 
>>> http://paperpools.blogspot.com
>>> http://helendewitt.com/dewitt/
>>> 
>>> Or, buy her a coffee:
>>> 
>>> https://ko-fi.com/M4M25GCC
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