Ever since I found that column of his that Poppy's journal pointed out, I've been stuck over a barrel about OSC. I really enjoyed the works of his that I enjoyed, but I have similar problems dealing with writers whose oppinions I can't stand. Unfortunately, the Alvin Maker series was very influential on me and, probably, what I write.

I found two little novellas by Mark Helprin that I enjoyed before finding out he was a neocon. Honestly, I wasn't surprised, but I couldn't ignore it once I knew, and it left me with something of a bad taste. I tried to ignore it, but jackassery has a tendency to backfill into what you've already read, spoiling it and when you got trained in school to read and interpret as you go, once you notice something, you can never unnotice it.