· Helen DeWitt combines literary theory, math, and satire in Some Trick, a cerebral collection of 13 stories that digs into the publishing industry, among other topics. — San Diego Magazine DeWitt’s stories are comic and intricate, and cut against the grain of Estimated Reading Time: 8 mins. · The artist-characters in “Some Trick,” Helen DeWitt’s new collection of bitingly hilarious stories, discover that integrity and commercial success are incompatible, or at most a fluke that Estimated Reading Time: 2 mins. · At last a new book: a baker’s dozen of stories all with Helen DeWitt’s razor-sharp genius Finalist for the Saroyan Prize for. Some Trick: Thirteen Stories by Helen DeWitt | Editorial Reviews. Hardcover. Hardcover. $ Audio MP3 on CD. $ Audio CD. $
Helen DeWitt appears to be living in poverty in Berlin, appealing on her website for people to buy her a coffee online. She has suggested she might be 'on the spectrum' and calls herself a rationalist. Her latest book, 'Some Trick', is a collection of 13 short stories, some of which date back to her Oxford days () when she would have been Some Trick: Thirteen Stories by Helen DeWitt At last a new book: a baker's dozen of stories all with Helen DeWitt's razor-sharp genius For sheer unpredictable brilliance, Gogol may come to mind, but no author alive today takes a reader as far as Helen DeWitt into the funniest, most yonder dimensions of possibility. June 4, Some Trick: Thirteen Stories is Helen DeWitt's third book in nearly two decades. It begins with a two-page mock-epigraph called "Here Is Somewhere.". The section riffs off "We're Off to See the Wizard" from The Wizard of Oz, except the rhyme scheme is interrupted by gainsay ideology, because because because.
NPR. Helen DeWitt's Some Trick seems less like a story collection and more like a series of notes from some vast, alien intelligence, not quite human itself, but capable of picking apart human habits with startling precision. DeWitt's characters are savants, weirdos, and artists, often trying to achieve their ends against the best efforts of the well-meaning and conventional people around them. 3 of 3. The artist-characters in “Some Trick,” Helen DeWitt’s new collection of bitingly hilarious stories, discover that integrity and commercial success are incompatible, or at most a. Some Trick: Thirteen Stories by Helen DeWitt is a collection of short stories all focusing on people who are very intelligent in one way or another. They struggle with money, compulsions or simply with everyday life.
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