Helen DeWitt

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Helen DeWitt

Helen DeWitt

@helendewitt

Novelist (The Last Samurai et al.). Interested in languages, statistics, dataviz. NOT HdW the film curator, who is no longer on X.

Berlin (DE); Vermont (US) Katılım Mart 2009
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Helen DeWitt
Helen DeWitt@helendewitt·
In 2023 I read @LKonstan’s The Last Samurai Reread. No comment re critique, but was shocked by inaccuracies & misrepresentations of publication history, tried to get fixed. @ColumbiaUP won’t make even minor corrections. For those who care about bg: not a reliable source.
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Kurwenal
Kurwenal@dagodubnos·
No Hollywood slop for "modern audiences": Michael Cacoyannis' "Iphigenia" (1977), based on the play by Euripides. Link to the full movie in the reply.
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Athanasius
Athanasius@Athanasius_45·
If you want to dive deeper into the lost works of the Epic Cycle, Malcom Davies wrote the following books collecting the available evidence. You can read all three for free on Harvard’s website. Find the links below:
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Helen DeWitt
Helen DeWitt@helendewitt·
@MeanRay22 My guess, it's a great event for people who like events. I'm going to Vermont to have a block of time when I don't have to talk to people, making an exception for Molly
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Ray@MeanRay22·
@helendewitt You should go to the Brattleboro Book Festival with her! It’s a great event!
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Helen DeWitt
Helen DeWitt@helendewitt·
Will be spending a couple of months in Vermont in a cottage w no internet connection, but may do an event at the Wild Book Company wildbookcompany.com/enter/ - I think Molly Hill had some books she wanted me to sign
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Hazel Mulhare
Hazel Mulhare@hazelmulhare·
@allie__voss THIS. we talked about how stupid sheep are for like 20 mins at my bible study and it was maybe the most profound thing I've ever learned 😂
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Dr Peter Caddick-Adams #StandwithUkraine
Dr Peter Caddick-Adams #StandwithUkraine@militaryhistori·
This is interesting . In today's @spectator mag, @CountBinface reviews Sir Christopher Nolan's new movie, @odysseymovie . He does so with great insight, sympathy, knowledge & erudition of his own odyssey, suggesting he might make a far better MP for Clacton than his opponent.
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Helen DeWitt
Helen DeWitt@helendewitt·
@ashleytrubin Academics know what goes on behind the scenes in agreeing on a syllabus, on exams. I think perhaps the more power you give an exam, the more power you're giving to BTS wheelers and dealers.
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Helen DeWitt
Helen DeWitt@helendewitt·
@ashleytrubin Reminder, apart from classics Qs most of my As were based on general reading, not classes, which suggests I needed SOMETHING to make me aware of what I was neglecting. Easy to imagine s.o knowledgeable about things I didn't know missing the classics Qs, AND
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Dr. Ashley T. Rubin
Dr. Ashley T. Rubin@ashleytrubin·
I heard an interesting proposal for fixing academia: require faculty to take the GRE. Not even subject-matter GRE, just the general test. We require our students to take it; we should be able to pass it, too.
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Helen DeWitt
Helen DeWitt@helendewitt·
Staying w my sister in DC before driving up to Vermont on Sunday. Stopped by @PoliticsProse and was touched to see 3 copies of Your Name Here - thank you, Politics & Prose!
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Emily Gould
Emily Gould@EmilyGouldNYmag·
PSA: Dorothy books are 40% off if you buy 4 rn @nyrbclassics. I'd get Jen George, Barbara Comyns, Natalie Léger, Nell Zink. But you could also get any random 4 and still nail this nyrb.com/collections/do…
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James Marcus
James Marcus@jamesamarcus·
Hume still toying with probability games on his deathbed--cause and effect was a kind of gamble--but also debunking the idea of immortality. You have to love his tone, if not his conclusions. I wonder if he was wearing one of his favorite turbans.
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Helen DeWitt
Helen DeWitt@helendewitt·
@EmilyGouldNYmag interviews, though, seem to be a machine for providing Wikipedia with factual errors from what counts as a legitimate source
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Emily Gould
Emily Gould@EmilyGouldNYmag·
@helendewitt idk Helen I think you and I both enjoy being Posters …
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Emily Gould
Emily Gould@EmilyGouldNYmag·
It would be cool to live in a world where every writer has the luxury of doing this. Since we absolutely do the fuck not, positioning it as a choice that individual writers make is so stunningly disingenuous and offensive that I shouldn't even be bothering to engage with it.
Alex Perez@Perez_Writes

The ultimate luxury a writer has now is the ability to disappear. Guys like Ben Lerner and Chad Harbach really figured it out. Atticus Lish. Emma Cline, too. No commentary on social media or begging. Nothing. They just put out a book or a piece and disappear again. Maybe show up in a photoshoot for a magazine. That’s how you know you’ve really made it. Good for them.

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Gaurav Sabnis
Gaurav Sabnis@gauravsabnis·
@helendewitt Haha @k_rupal will confirm I didn't make it up. Her optometry school classmate is the mom. And the boy was explicitly named after the comics.
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