Helen DeWitt is the author of The Last Samurai and Lightning Rods. Some Trick, her first collection of stories, will be published by New Directions in May 2018.
The Wrong Stuff
This piece appears in the LARB Print Quarterly Journal: No. 18, Genius To receive the LARB Quarterly Journal, become ...
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