Some Trick: Thirteen Stories

Copyright

Copyright © 2018 by Helen DeWitt

All rights reserved. Except for brief passages quoted in a newspaper, magazine, radio, television, or website review, no part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the Publisher.

Published by arrangement with the author.

Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to quote from the following:

“We’re Off to See the Wizard” (from The Wizard of Oz) Music by Harold Arlen, lyric by E. Y. Harburg. Copyright © 1938 (renewed) Metro Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. Copyright © 1939 (renewed) EMI Feist Catalog Inc. Rights throughout the world controlled by EMI Feist Catalog Inc. (publishing) and Alfred Music Publishing Co., Inc. (print). All rights reserved. Used by permission of Alfred Publishing, LLC.

“Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right” Copyright © 1963 by Warner Bros. Inc.; renewed 1991 by Special Rider Music. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.

“Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off” (from Shall We Dance)

Music and lyrics by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin. Copyright © 1936 (renewed) Ira Gershwin Music and George Gershwin Music. All rights on behalf of Ira Gershwin Music Administered by WB Music Corp. All rights reserved. Used by permission of Alfred Publishing, LLC. Reprinted by permission of Hal Leonard LLC.

A publisher’s note begins on page 195.

Manufactured in the United States of America

New Directions Books are printed on acid-­free paper

First published clothbound by New Directions in 2018

Library of Congress Cataloging-­in-­Publication Data

Names: Dewitt, Helen, 1957– author.

Title: Some trick : 13 stories / Helen DeWitt.

Description: First edition. | New York : New Directions Publishing, [2018]

Identifiers: LCCN 2017055363 (print) | LCCN 2017057388 (ebook) | ISBN 9780811227834 | ISBN 9780811227827 (acid-free paper)

Classification: LCC PS3554.E92945 (ebook) | LCC PS3554.E92945 A6 2018 (print) | DDC 813/.54—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017055363

eISBN: 9780811227834

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