Mark Helprin

Book Review: Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin

Blogcritics: Books (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009

Alice meets Dr. Leary Arts - People and Society - Authors - Winter - Literature

“What could be less controversial than copyright'”

small dead animals (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009

An interview with Mark Helprin....

Mark Helprin: Copyright Twit of the Year

Center for a Stateless Society (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009

Kevin Carson: "Mark Helprin's twittishness belongs to the ages."

Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin

Pajiba (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009

I bought this book on Wednesday, thinking that I would start it Thursday morning so it could be an official Cannonball Read book. Boredom on the uptown A train changed that plan, however -- it runs local after 10pm, and...

The Fact That Anyone Can Publish Means More Of The Good Stuff... And Yes, More Of The Bad Stuff

Techdirt (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009

We've tried to articulate this before when various (often self-proclaimed) elitists like Nicholas Carr, Andrew Keen or Mark Helprin bash the rise of social media or the fact that "anyone" can publish. They love to highlight all of the bad and ridiculous stuff that people decide to publish. And, no doubt, plenty more bad stuff gets published. But... at the same time, a lot more good stuff...

• The Fact That Anyone Can Publish Means More Of The Good Stuff… And Yes, More Of The Bad Stuff - Click World News

Akiva Goldsman Wants to Direct Mark Helprin’s Winter’s Tale, Talks Lobo and Swamp Thing

/Film (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009

Hollywood loves Akiva Goldsman. No surprise. He's a geek at heart, and these days geeks make money. He's able to marry that sensibility with an approach that brings in adult audiences (The Da Vinci Code) and even wins awards (A Beautiful Mind). And yet a lot of us have a real mistrust of the writer, not even thanks to his credit on the execrable Batman and Robin, but for being the driving force behind...

• Akiva Goldsman Wants to Direct Mark Helprin’s Winter’s Tale, Talks Lobo and Swamp Thing - Best Movies 2008

"The soul is what I will contest"

So Quoted (Free subscription) | 09/28/2009

Wherein rereading Mark Helprin's Freddy and Fredericka because well ONE it's an entertaining book and easily read without being fluff and TWO to remind myself that he doesn't always and maybe rarely writes stupid crap Lord Psnake is speaking to Lord Didgeridoo: These are modern times. One murders differently. I will murder them with headlines, and my dagger will be speech. My poison will be the half-hidden...

Obama in Wonderland

TrueNorth (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009

Mark Helprin: Obama and the Politics of Concession - WSJ.com What we have here is an inadvertent homage to Lewis Carroll: We are going to cancel a defense that takes five years to mount, because the threat will not materialize...

My Response to Mark Helprin

PlagiarismToday (Free subscription) | 09/24/2009

Mark Helprin, the author of Digital Barbarians has offered a rebuttal to critics of his work, here is my response.

Today's Must Reads, 9/23/09

J O S H U A P U N D I T (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009

Feel free to send anything you find that you feel is worthy of a look to me at rmill2k@msn.com and I'll review it. This includes stuff you write yourself.Or if you prefer, you can send it to Natasha, our must reads Avatar.. NYT :Obama's Speech to the UN General Assembly ( full transcript) Nile Gardiner/Telegraph :The UN loves Obama because he is weak John Bolton/NRO :A post-American speech by our first...

Obama: sowing seeds of destruction wherever he turns

TrueNorth (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009

Mark Helprin: Obama and the Politics of Concession - WSJ.com Interceptors that would effectively cover Western Europe are too big for the vertical launch cells of the Aegis ships, or even their hulls. Thus, in light of the basing difficulties...

Obama and the Politics of Concession

Seraphic Secret (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009

World leaders prepare for summits with other heads of state by, among other things, studying in-depth psychological profiles prepared by analysts in their security divisions. At best, these profiles are predictive of likely future behavior. The Mossad dossiers are famous for containing deep information that other services have missed. For instance, the Mossad's file on Bill Clinton contains detailed...

The price of appeasement

PrairiePundit (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009

Mark Helprin: ... We are now faithfully complying, and last week, after Iran foreclosed discussion of its nuclear program and Mojtaba Samareh Hashemi, Mr. Ahmadinejad's chief political adviser, predicted "the defeat and collapse" of Western democracy, the U.S. agreed to enter talks the premise of which, incredibly, is to eliminate American nuclear weapons. Even the zombified press awoke for...

Obama: Politics of Concession

FREEDOM EDEN (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009

Mark Helprin writes in the Wall Street Journal that Iran and Russia put Obama to the test last week. Our leader, the one who likes to draw parallels between himself and JKF, and even Ronald Reagan, didn't follow in their footsteps. He forged a different path -- the politics of concession. Obama chose to blink, twice. Helprin writes: During last year's campaign, Sen. Joe Biden famously remarked that,...

Updates: Mark Helprin, Scribd lawsuit

TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009

We have probably already given perpetual-copyright zealot Mark Helprin more coverage than he deserves, but this TechDirt article from Michael Masnick is too good to pass up. It seems that Helprin’s book, Digital Barbarism, has been getting nearly universally panned by reviewers. But according to an op-ed by Helprin in the National Review, the reason [...]