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Mark Helprin on writing, critics, history
Most people wouldn't know where to begin in writing a novel-the activity and the outcome seem like a peculiar mix of alchemy and magic. It's disappointing then, when hearing an author interviewed on Fresh Air or Charlie Rose-or the Today Show-far from the expected magician, the writer is revealed to be a naval-gazing solipsist with nothing interesting to say. (Given the "write what you know" dictum, maybe that's why so many novels of late are so boring.)
Happily, this is not the case with Mark Helprin-author of books like Winter's Tale, Memoir From Antproof Case and A Soldier of the Great War-a novelist of rare talent, …
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