I didn't even look at the name. I never knew Mark Helprin as op-ed commentator. I only know him because of his wondrous gorgeous heart-stopping "Winter's Tale". I learned later that he was a poli commentary type. I keep wandering through life hoping to bump into people who have read Winter's -- I think at this point I know four -- myself, my husband (to whom I read it aloud), and two on-line friends. For a while I proselytized passionately on behalf of the book, but it *looks* so long and forboding, I guess... (maybe someone here will have read this deluge of beauty?). Julie Krueger ========Original Message======== Subj:[lit-ideas] Re: Piggy-eyed wonder Date:5/26/2004 10:32:25 PM Central Daylight Time From:Scribe1865@xxxxxxx To:lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent on: In a message dated 5/26/2004 12:50:47 PM Eastern Daylight Time, andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx writes: Wall Street Journal contributing editor Mark Helprin This is Mark "a thousand points of light" Helprin, an okay novelist and one of the best American short story writers? Wonder what happened to his fiction output? ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html