The Corner (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
Because I devote the bulk of Impromptus today to Mark Helprin -- to his latest book, Digital Barbarism -- much mail concerning Helprin has come in: expressions of appreciation, wonderment, and so on. (One reader keeps Helprin’s short-story collection The Pacific in her car, to read when she has to wait for any reason.) I’d like to comment on the e-mail of a particular reader, who was a...
National Review Online (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
R eaders, will you indulge me in something? For months now, I’ve been meaning to say something about Mark Helprin’s latest book, Digital Barbarism: A Writer’s Manifesto . It is a strange, wondrous, challenging, and enriching book -- possibly even an ennobling book. Mark is my friend, and you may discount everything I say. But then, you may want to hear a word or two, regardless....
Blogcritics: Books (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Alice meets Dr. Leary Arts - People and Society - Authors - Winter - Literature
small dead animals (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
An interview with Mark Helprin....
Center for a Stateless Society (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Kevin Carson: "Mark Helprin's twittishness belongs to the ages."
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...
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...
/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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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