Helen DeWitt Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
Helen DeWitt on X
Author of The Last Samurai, Lightning Rods, Some Trick. Interested in languages, statistics, dataviz. NOT Helen de Witt the film curator, who is @diamantecroc
Shelley: The Pursuit
Richard HolmesHelen DeWittShelley's strategy, adopted from the Doctor, was to write to well-known authorities on religious or philosophical questions, posing as a distressed spinster, puzzled curate or other intellectual innocent. Richard Holmes, Shelley: The Pursuit p 26
Paperback, 2003
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Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist
Charles RosenHelen DeWitt(Charles Rosen has a long discussion of the middle pedal, I think in Piano Notes) After my mother died on Aug 23 I tried to think of pieces for the memorial service. Could not bring myself to propose this piece,
Paperback, 2009
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Lightning Rods
Helen DeWittHelen DeWittTempting to add to a neverending thread, but no. The quote I wanted for the cover of Lightning Rods was: LIGHTNING RODS! I HATE THAT BOOK!!! Mary DeWitt Griffin (Helen's Mom) Totally unsolicited, btw, so trustworthy! Publishers strangely unkeen.
Paperback, 2012
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The Voices of Wittgenstein: The Vienna Circle
Friedrich WaismannHelen DeWittSraffa made some Neapolitan gesture of disdain and asked, 'What is the logical form of this?' In intro to The Voices of Wittgenstein: The Vienna Circle (Waismann, transcribed, edited, intro Gordon Baker, transl. Baker, Mackert, Connolly, Politis)
Paperback, 2013
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Life in the English Country House: A Social and Architectural History
Mark GirouardHelen DeWittI'm rereading Mark Girouard's Life in the English Country House & am shocked to find that it is apparently out of print. Went back to it bc I was thinking how glorious it is to get maybe 1 non-spam email a day, to have 2 inboxes kept at 0 since New Year, 1 w 4 pre-2020 to answer
Out of stock
Wittgenstein: Understanding and Meaning Part One: Essays
Gordon P. BakerHelen DeWittSraffa made some Neapolitan gesture of disdain and asked, 'What is the logical form of this?' In intro to The Voices of Wittgenstein: The Vienna Circle (Waismann, transcribed, edited, intro Gordon Baker, transl. Baker, Mackert, Connolly, Politis)
Hardcover, 2005
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Fixing English
Anne CurzanHelen DeWitt@john_self Almost certainly not, but I never know whether I would agree with the fixes. So many are proposed by people whose views on language seem to be shaped by style manuals rather than, say, @LanguageLog or Anne Curzan's splendid Fixing English.
Paperback, 2016
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Some Trick
Helen DeWittHelen DeWittExcellent news, Elena Devos has sent galleys of Russian translation (w extra stories) of Some Trick, which she translated. I wrote to Lena twice warning of pitfalls of getting Hebrew into typesetting software, & sure enough some of the words got flipped from R->L to L->R!
Paperback, 2019
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Diego Garcia
Natasha SoobramanienHelen DeWitt@CalMorgan Diego Garcia by Natasha Soubramanian & Luke Williams is coming out in June (@FitzcarraldoEds & @SemiotextePress ) (inside baseball, maybe, but it does amazing things w pronouns)
Paperback, 2022
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