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Socrates in the City host Eric Metaxas sits down with the inimitable Mark Helprin, whom Metaxas describes as the greatest living fiction writer. In this conversation, the well-acquainted pair discuss Helprin’s latest novel, The Oceans and the Stars, a partial homage to Moby Dick and The Odyssey.
"It’s a book about honor and civilization,” says the author who was called “the most difficult man to interview” by renowned journalist Dorothy Fuldheim (the first American journalist and Jewish woman to interview Adolf Hitler). In this conversation, as entertaining as any, the two travel down many topic paths from Helprin’s writing process, his experience with US presidents, to his marrying a tax lawyer. And much more.
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This conversation took place in April 2024 in Charleston, South Carolina.
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