As regular readers know, one of my favorite writers, and favorite people, is Mark Helprin. His new novel is Elegy in Blue. (Marvelous title, and utterly suited to the book.) (It wouldn’t be so marvelous if it weren’t so suited, true.) The book includes some familiar Helprinian themes: love, New York, the sea, courage. In our new Q&A, we discuss those, and more.

Mark ends our discussion by emphasizing the beauty and protean wonder of the English language. He is both a guardian of our language and a pride of it.

This fellow is important to me and many others.

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