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NYT Needs More Helprin

In this Sunday's City section of the New York Times, the editors are asking readers which books are the new New York classics.

We here at OnePeople encourage each and every one of our loyal readers to nominate Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin. Once you have read it, the book will inform everything you do as a New Yorker. But don't take our word for it, Benjamin De Mott said as much on the front page of the New York Times Book Review:

"Is it not astonishing that a work so rooted in fantasy, filled with narrative high jinks and comic flights, stands forth centraally as a moral discourse? It is indeed....I find myself nervous, to a degree I don't recall in my past as a reviewer, about failing the work, inadequately displaying its brilliance."

We here at OnePeople can't think of higher praise, or a book more suited to being one of the "new New York Classics." So how can we make sure Winter's Tale gets the attention it deserves? You can start by commenting on this story, or mailing OnePeople directly, and we'll make sure that it ends up on the City editor's desk. Pass this message along to all your bookish friends, too -- we need all the help we can get.

-- posted by Gunnar at June 2, 2003 08:00 AM - TrackBack