The State of Art and Literature with Mark Helprin

Socrates in the City

In part two of this two-part series, novelist Mark Helprin enraptures his host, Eric Metaxas, and listeners with many fantastical — and true — stories, beginning with the first book contract he was offered at age seven, which his father declined, and including selling his first short stories to the New Yorker, and the book John Cheever, a friend, wrote about his family. To watch more, Scan our channel's QR code.