61. Bookreporter.com - FREDDY AND FREDERICKA By Mark Helprin While it s true that less is sometimes more, that principle apparently doesn t apply to the books of mark helprin, nor would his readers wish for less. http://www.bookreporter.com/reviews2/1594200548.asp

var gDcsId = "dcs30w0vc10000chxa0maatv9_2u6z"; Click here to find more Mark Helprin on Audible.com Books by Mark Helprin FREDDY AND FREDERICKA THE PACIFIC AND OTHER STORIES FREDDY AND FREDERICKA Mark Helprin The Penguin Press Fiction ISBN: 1594200548 While it's true that less is sometimes more, that principle apparently doesn't apply to the books of Mark Helprin, nor would his readers wish for less. FREDDY AND FREDERICKA is a vast, sprawling book of Homeric proportions and design in which Helprin exploits to the fullest his powers of invention as well as a lesser known talent for comedy; for unlike the Iliad and the Odyssey, FREDDY AND FREDERICKA is a comic epic, a genre famously defined by Henry Fielding in the 1742 preface of his novel JOSEPH ANDREWS. Some scholars believe Homer himself may have written a comic epic or a mock epic called the "Margites," of which only a few fragments survived him. Helprin's comic epic differs from the classic model only in its use of comedy, otherwise addressing important and serious matters, with the action centering on a courageous hero who in some way is above the common man - like Jason or Odysseus or, in this case, Freddy. FREDDY AND FREDERICKA is also a poignant love story-that-might-have-been), for Freddy is transparently (based on) Prince Charles, Fredericka just as transparently (based on) Diana, whose death in 1997 ended their troubled marriage.

62. Why Copyrights Must Expire: A Reply To Mark Helprin | Public Knowledge mark helprin has published an oped in the New York Times calling for a perpetual copyright. This seems more of a philosophical rant than a serious http://www.publicknowledge.org/node/958

@import "/modules/book/book.css"; @import "/modules/node/node.css"; @import "/modules/system/defaults.css"; @import "/modules/system/system.css"; @import "/modules/user/user.css"; @import "/sites/all/modules/cck/content.css"; @import "/sites/all/modules/date/date.css"; @import "/sites/all/modules/logintoboggan/logintoboggan.css"; @import "/modules/comment/comment.css"; @import "/sites/all/themes/pk2007a/style.css"; Support PK! Donate online or via the Combined Federal Campaign. CFC ID #12259 Policy Blog Issues Events ... Sherwin Siy By Sherwin Siy on May 21, 2007 - 3:03pm Mark Helprin has published an op-ed developed a reputation We already have such a problem with our limited term of life-plus-70 years. Works whose authorship is unknown are called Project Gutenberg and the Internet Archive Indeed it is. The uncertainty of profit from an art is no excuse to subsidize and insure the practitioners of the art in perpetuity. Neither your great-grandchildren (nor mine) deserve the right to control conversation and culture long after we have already profited from the dissemination of our own ideas. Writers, composers, artists, sculptors, architects, programmers, and creators of all stripes contribute great things to our society, but that contribution does not give their ghosts the right to claim a stranglehold on the living. Techdirt Making Light (which points out that Mark Twain made the same unconvincing argument a hundred years ago)

63. Markfenske.com: Mark Helprin, Author Of A Soldier Of The Great War, And Also Win mark helprin, author of A Soldier of the Great War, and also Winter s Tale, is speaking tonight, 7/8/05 at C3 in richmond, va http://markfenske.com/2005/07/mark-helprin-author-of-soldier-of.html

@import url("http://www.blogger.com/css/blog_controls.css"); @import url("http://www.blogger.com/dyn-css/authorization.css?blogID=14255988"); markfenske.com The author of this site teaches in the graduate program in advertising at Virginia Commonwealth University. The site is a supplement to the ongoing struggle between himself and the students. No guarantee is made that wisdom, truth or value is to be found herein, but thanks for dropping by. © Mark Fenske Friday, July 08, 2005 Mark Helprin, author of A Soldier of the Great War, and also Winter's Tale, is speaking tonight, 7/8/05 at C3 in richmond, va I can't recommend any living writer more highly. Dead writers, yes. posted by Fenske at Friday, July 08, 2005 0 Comments: Post a Comment Previous Posts Percy Shelley, an English poet, lived from 1792-18...

64. Skepticism About Islamo-Democracy Gets Mark Helprin Fired « The Tory Anarchist From Kelly Jane Torrance’s fascinating interview with mark helprin (be sure to read the whole thing here). MH I gave a speech that lasted 45 minutes or http://toryanarchist.wordpress.com/2006/08/17/sketpicism-about-islamo-democracy-

The Tory Anarchist www.ToryAnarchist.com Skepticism About Islamo-Democracy Gets Mark Helprin Fired read the whole thing here DT: Have you found that your colleagues at places like the Wall Street Journal are unhappy with your criticism? MH: Yes, I no longer am with the Journal. DT: Is it because of this? Your thoughts on these issues? Explore posts in the same categories: Culture War media This entry was posted on August 17, 2006 at 7:22 pm and is filed under Culture War media . You can subscribe via RSS 2.0 feed to this post's comments. You can comment below , or link to this permanent URL from your own site. Your comments will appear immediately, but I reserve the right to delete inappropriate comments. Says: August 17, 2006 at 8:21 pm Jennifa d'arcRaven Says: June 26, 2007 at 3:06 am Comment: Name (required) Mail (will not be published) (required) Website Blog at WordPress.com . Theme: Sapphire by Michael Martine

65. David M: Mark Helprin On God, Life And The Yankees mark helprin on God, life and the Yankees. “What is that?” Roger asked, pointing up. “On the radio?” Roger nodded. “That? That’s the best part. http://davidm.blogspot.com/2004/10/mark-helprin-on-god-life-and-yankees.html

@import url("http://www.blogger.com/css/blog_controls.css"); @import url("http://www.blogger.com/dyn-css/authorization.css?targetBlogID=3318976"); var BL_backlinkURL = "http://www.blogger.com/dyn-js/backlink_count.js";var BL_blogId = "3318976"; David M Some thoughts Tuesday, October 05, 2004 Mark Helprin on God, life and the Yankees “What is that?” Roger asked, pointing up. “On the radio?” Roger nodded. “That? That’s the best part. You could listen all day. I do.” “But what is it?” “It’s baseball,” said Schnaiper, “from the House That Ruth Built.” “From the House of Ruth?” Roger asked, stunned. “Live,” Schnaiper said. “Where is it?” “The Bronx.” Evidently, rabbis kept certain things from their students. Wonderful things. Exciting things. If Schnaiper could be believed—and never had he overweighed a chicken—there was a place in the Bronx that—symbolically? actually? miraculously?—was a direct link to the Israelites. Roger knew that such places could be found in Eretz Yisroel, but never had he heard that they existed in the Bronx. Immediately he wanted to go there, to see. The problem was that he did not understand its language, which seemed as dense and impenetrable as his studies in the Talmud, which, after all, had not come on the instant. Read the whole story in Commentary Update: Apparently OxBlog liked the story, too.

66. To The Editor: Please See Wiki - The Lede - Breaking News - New York Times Blog So far, The Times has not published any letters regarding mark helprin’s OpEd, titled “A Great Idea Lives Forever. Shouldn’t Its Copyright? http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/05/21/to-the-editor-please-see-wiki/

Home Page My Times Today's Paper Video ... Times Topics document.write(day + " " + month + " " + myweekday + ", " + year); News World U.S. N.Y. / Region ... Autos May 21, 2007, 2:58 pm To the Editor: Please See Wiki By Mike Nizza Tags: media should not be suffered to pass unnoticed offered advice to writers seeking to increase the odds of publication: So far, The Times has not published any letters regarding Lawrence Lessig, left. (Photo: Heidi Schumann for The New York Times) Lawrence Lessig , a Stanford University law professor, started it all at 12:30 p.m. Pacific time on Sunday in a blog post The Times explained But the Op-Ed Page was not the target of this effort, at least not in its current form. Mr. Lessig wanted the rebuttal to be formed on his Web site by people working collaboratively with wiki software, which allows anyone to make changes to the content. Talking points, and ideas to get things started Other Points Against Helprin Go help make it better. and compare with the column that inspired it E-mail this 17 comments so far... May 21st

67. "Mark Helprin" - Topic Profile :: BoardReader Freddy and Fredericka by mark helprin. It s just waiting to be on film! And maybe My Friend Leonard. Just because. And Cheri by Colette. warm. Warmer. http://boardreader.com/tp/Mark Helprin.html

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69. Thiamin Trek Weblog Archives: Notes On Refiner's Fire By Mark Helprin Notes on Refiner s Fire by mark helprin. bookcover Publisher Harvest Books ISBN 0156762404 384 pages Keyword(s) Literary fiction. Rating 3 3 stars http://96db.com/blog/ReadingNotes/0379-0.htm

Thiamin Trek Weblog Archives Notes on Refiner's Fire by Mark Helprin Notes on Refiner's Fire by Mark Helprin Publisher: Harvest Books ISBN: 384 pages Keyword(s): Literary fiction Rating: 3 Reading period: December 6-23, 2003 I adored Helprin's Memoir From Antproof Case , and I had high hopes for his Winter's Tale , but my expectations were so shattered by the latter book that I waited almost six years to try another of his novels. I do like Refiner's Fire better than Winter's Tale , but my initial love of Helprin's writing has definitely faded. Refiner's Fire is the life story of Marshall Pearl. In the opening scene, we meet Pearl on his deathbed in Haifa during the 1973 conflict, where he served as an Israeli soldier. After this brief opening, we're given a whirlwind tour of Pearl's life, probably intended to be "flashing before his eyes" as he nears death. His life starts in conflict, on an illegal immigrant ship in 1947, where he is orphaned during a battle. He is brought to New York by the boat's captain and adopted by a Jewish family. As he grows up, he has a series of outlandish adventures, from fighting the Rastafarians in Jamaica, to stowing away on a train, to working in a surreal slaughterhouse, and so on. He ends up in Israel, searching for his biological father, where he is conscripted into service and is near-mortally wounded. The novel ends on a poetic note that ties things up nicely. Sounds good so far, right? Well, I was not impressed with the series of Marshall's adventures. Several of them serve no real purpose in the scheme of things (other than to show off Helprin's fertile imagination), and although they are interesting as vignettes, they don't all quite fit into the tapestry of the novel. Also, at times, Helprin gets a little carried away with his use of language and ends up obfuscating things unnecessarily.

70. Freddy And Fredericka By Mark Helprin: Reviews Though he gets off lots of sassy lines, mark helprin has taken the tiniest sliver of a clever conceit and blown it up into a severely bloated door stopper. http://www.metacritic.com/books/authors/helprinmark/freddyandfredericka

GameSpot GameFAQs Metacritic MP3.com ... RSS in all of metacritic in film and video in music in games in books in television Switch to Advanced Search Archives: A-Z By Title Archives: A-Z By Author Advanced Search ... sort by score Stars indicate the most critically-acclaimed books. Freddy And Fredericka A Novel by Mark Helprin based on 17 reviews read critic reviews how did we calculate this? based on 6 votes read user comments rate this book Compare prices at pricegrabber.com Buy it at powells.com Buy it at amazon.com Buy it at amazon.co.uk Official Publisher Site Helprin's first novel in a decade is a satire that finds the hapless and maligned heirs to the British throne sent on a mission to re-colonize America... a task that involves everything from naked parachuting to impersonating dentists. Penguin, 576 pages ISBN: Fiction All reviews are classified as one of five grades: Outstanding (4 points), Favorable Mixed Unfavorable (1) and Terrible (0). To calculate the Metascore, we divide total points achieved by the total points possible (i.e., 4 x the number of reviews), with the resulting percentage (multiplied by 100) being the Metascore.

71. Help Write A Reply To Mark Helprin's Call For Infinite Copyright - Boing Boing SF novelist mark helprin (author of A Winter s Tale ) has a silly little editorial in the NYT this weekend advocating copyright without end (though I don t http://www.boingboing.net/2007/05/20/help-write-a-reply-t.html

Boing Boing Home Gadgets TV Suggest a Link ... Joel Posted by Cory Doctorow, May 20, 2007 5:07 PM permalink SF novelist Mark Helprin (author of "A Winter's Tale") has a silly little editorial Avram Grumer points out , it mostly rehashes arguments Mark Twain advanced 101 years ago. Nevertheless, an editorial in the Times calls for a rebuttal, and that's why Larry Lessig has put up a wiki page for the collective authorship of a thoroughgoing rebuttal to Halprin's piece. There have been dozens of edits so far, and they've written a very good piece. You folks can go help make it better. Link Older Audio from science Fiction panel with Cory, Kage Baker, John Scalzi, Harry Turtledove Newer Gibson on the Neuromancer movie rumor var federated_media_section = ''; Discussion Post a comment Name: Anonymous Email Address: Comments (You may use HTML tags for style) Don't Miss BBtv: Build Rome in a Day Taxonomy of regional pizza styles Boing Boing tv: Steampunk Tree House Is Comcast really blocking P2P? EFF + SF Weekly conclude: yeah. ... Heathrow Terminal 5: Electricity-free no-laptop zone? Recent Comments Takuan said : "nope, Kikis'. Complete with airships etc. Raputa was more fantasy/science fiction. ..."

72. Nothing Is Random, Mark Helprin, Articles - Yuni Words Of Wisdom mark helprin, Articles, Nothing is random, nor will anything ever be, whether a long string of perfectly. http://www.yuni.com/library/docs/648.html

Our FREE Nothing is Random Nothing is random, nor will anything ever be, whether a long string of perfectly blue days that begin and end in golden dimness, the most seemingly chaotic political acts, the rise of a great city, the crystalline structure of a gem that has never seen the light, the distributions of fortune, what time the milkman gets up, the position of the electron, or the occurrence of one astonishingly frigid winter after another. Even electrons, supposedly the paragons of unpredictability, are tame and obsequious little creatures that rush around at the speed of light, going precisely where they are supposed to go. They make faint whistling sounds that when apprehended in varying combinations are as pleasant as the wind flying through a forest, and they do exactly as they are told. Of this, one can be certain. And yet there is a wonderful anarchy, in that the milkman chooses when to arise, the rat picks the tunnel into which he will dive when the subway comes rushing down the track from Borough Hall, and the snowflake will fall as it will. How can this be? If nothing is random, and everything is predetermined, how can there be free will? The answer to that is simple. Nothing is predetermined; it is determined, or was determined, or will be determined. No matter, it all happened at once, in less than an instant, and time was invented because we cannot comprehend in one glance the enormous and detailed canvas that we have been given - so we track it, in linear fashion, piece by piece. Time, however, can be easily overcome; not by chasing light, but by standing back far enough to see it all at once.

73. From Mark Helprin's "The Winter's Tale" From mark helprin s novel The Winter s Tale. Every city has its gates, which need not be of stone. Nor need soldiers be upon them or watchers before them. http://www.dgp.utoronto.ca/people/modjeska/Cities/helprin.html

From Mark Helprin's novel The Winter's Tale Every city has its gates, which need not be of stone. Nor need soldiers be upon them or watchers before them. At first, when cities were jewels in a dark and mysterious world, they tended to be round and they had protective walls. To enter, one had to pass through gates, the reward for which was shelter from the overwhelming forests and seas, the merciless and taxing expanse of greens, whites, and blues - wild and free - that stopped at the city walls. In time, the ramparts became higher and the gates more massive, until they simply disappeared and were replaced by barriers, subtler than stone, that girded every city like a crown and held in its spririt. Some claim that the barriers do not exist, and disparage them. Although they themselves can penetrate the new walls with no effort, their spirits (which, also, they claim do not exist) cannot, and are left like orphans around the periphery. To enter a city intact it is necessary to pass through one of the new gates. They are far more difficult to find than their solid predecessors, for they are tests, mechanisms, devices, and implementations of justice.

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