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“A strange, wondrous, challenging, enriching book….Beautiful and powerful…you will not encounter another book like it.”
—National Review online
In Digital Barbarism, bestselling novelist Mark Helprin (Winter’s Tale, A Soldier of the Great War) offers a ringing Jeffersonian defense of private property in the age of digital culture, with its degradation of thought and language and collectivist bias against the rights of individual creators. A timely, cogent, and important attack on the popular Creative Commons movement, Digital Barbarism provides rational, witty, and supremely wise support for the individual voice and its hard-won legal protections.
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"Every writer, artist in the world needs to read and heed this wonderful book. Not only is Helprin one of the smartest writers around, he's funny, wise and prophetic too. So seriously, read this book. "
— Paul (5 out of 5 stars)
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“Aptly spirited.”
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“It is the only treatise of its kind…Certainly every aspiring magazine writer needs to peruse it.”
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“[A] passionate defense of authors’ rights and the power of the individual voice…offered in elegant prose and with a rapier-sharp wit.”
— Publishers Weekly
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" I agree with the principles that motivated Mr. Helprin to publish this volume, but I also think that the essays start to ramble and sometimes deviate away from the point. "
— Jeremiah, 11/11/2013 -
" Helprin is my favorite author, but this treatise against the digital was best left as an op ed. "
— B, 9/17/2013 -
" Excellent! Probably the best piece of modern philosophy I've read recently. "
— John, 10/28/2012 -
" Funny for those of us who blog and endure bizarre responses. "
— Tom, 8/5/2012 -
" Every writer, artist in the world needs to read and heed this wonderful book. Not only is Helprin one of the smartest writers around, he's funny, wise and prophetic too. So seriously, read this book. "
— Paul, 12/6/2011 -
" Funny for those of us who blog and endure bizarre responses. "
— Tom, 8/7/2010
About Mark Helprin
Mark Helprin is the internationally acclaimed author of numerous works, including the New York Times bestsellers Winter’s Tale, In Sunlight and in Shadow, and Swan Lake.
About David Colacci
David Colacci is an actor and director who has directed and performed in prominent theaters nationwide. His credits include roles from Shakespeare to Albee, as well as extensive work on new plays. As a narrator, he has won numerous Earphones Awards, earned Audie Award nominations, and been included in Best Audio of the Year lists by such publications as Publishers Weekly, AudioFile magazine, and Library Journal. He was a resident actor and director with the Cleveland Play House for eight years and has been artistic director of the Hope Summer Rep Theater since 1992.