About the Author

Sven Birkerts is the author of Readings, The Gutenberg Elegies, and a memoir, My Sky Blue Trades. He teaches at Harvard University and at the Bennington Writing Seminars, and is the editor of Agni. He lives in Arlington, Massachusetts.

Reviews

"To read Birkerts is to hear (and enjoy hearing) the voice of literary conscience." --Seamus Heaney"Birkerts on reading fiction is like M.F.K. Fisher on eating or Norman Maclean on fly casting. He makes you want to go do it." --Jonathan Franzen, The New Yorker