Your Name Here: The Secret History - Helen DeWitt

Have not written anything on this Substack, but I see people have been signing up for the void.

Your Name Here: The Secret History Helen DeWitt Jan 03, 2026 259 20 39 Share Have not written anything on this Substack, but I see people have been signing up for the void. Meanwhile there have been reviews of Your Name Here, profiles of Ilya and me, and it seems a lot of people have misunderstood the history of the book. It turns out the idea of the radical unpublishable book that no-one appreciated is wildly popular, and the idea that I might back away from would-be agents and/or publisher who would drive me insane is incomprehensible. The other thing that’s incomprehensible, apparently, is

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