Recommended by Electric Literature

Issue No.13





BAKER’S EX KEEPS BREAKING HIS BALLS. She penalizes him for minor infractions. She calls the police when he accidentally turns up on a day that’s not one of his days. It’s rarely his day.

His tribulations are a popular subject with National Enquirer. In AA, though, anyway, he wears the cloak of normal visibility. Incurious sympathy is on decent display. People trying to maintain authenticity, the level of man-to-common-man laissez-faire which is the norm for the group.

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Author’s Bio



Helen DeWitt was born in a suburb of Washington, D.C. in 1957. Her father joined the Foreign Service in 1960, and she grew up primarily in South America. She has a B.A. in Literae Humaniores and a D.Phil. in Greek and Latin Literature from the University of Oxford. Her first novel, The Last Samurai, was published in 2000 by Talk Miramax Books and subsequently in nineteen other countries. A Guggenheim Fellowship (2006-7) supported work on Risk, a novel incorporating the information design of Edward Tufte (in progress). She has collaborated with the painter Ingrid Kerma on the show “Blushing Brides,” with journalist Ilya Gridneff on the novel Your Name Here, and with artist Elizabeth McAlpine on “Plantinga” for Photomonth Krakow. Her most recent novel, Lightning Rods, was published by New Directions in 2011.



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