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Sven Birkerts

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Born: September 20 1951

Sven Birkerts is an American essayist and literary critic of Latvian ancestry. He is best known for his book The Gutenberg Elegies, which posits a decline in reading due to the overwhelming advances of the Internet and other technologies of the "electronic culture."

Birkerts graduated from Cranbrook School and then from the University of Michigan in 1973. He has taught writing at Harvard University, Emerson College, Amherst College, and most recently at Mount Holyoke College. Birkerts is the Director of the Bennington College Writing Seminars and the editor of AGNI, the literary journal. He now lives in the Boston area, specifically Arlington, Massachusetts, with his wife Lynn, daughter Mara, and son Liam.

His father is noted architect Gunnar Birkerts.

Sven Birkerts

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Born: September 20 1951

Sven Birkerts is an American essayist and literary critic of Latvian ancestry. He is best known for his book The Gutenberg Elegies, which posits a decline in reading due to the overwhelming advances of the Internet and other technologies of the "electronic culture."

Birkerts graduated from Cranbrook School and then from the University of Michigan in 1973. He has taught writing at Harvard University, Emerson College, Amherst College, and most recently at Mount Holyoke College. Birkerts is the Director of the Bennington College Writing Seminars and the editor of AGNI, the literary journal. He now lives in the Boston area, specifically Arlington, Massachusetts, with his wife Lynn, daughter Mara, and son Liam.

His father is noted architect Gunnar Birkerts.

Books from Sven Birkerts

Agapē Agape

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Changing the Subject: Essays on the Mediated Self

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The Other Walk: Essays

Reading Life: Books for the Ages

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My Sky Blue Trades: Growing Up Counter in a Contrary Time

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Bookworm

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Readings

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Esejas

Changing the Subject: Art and Attention in the Internet Age

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An Artificial Wilderness:Essays On 20th-Century Literature

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Irish Pages: A Journal of Contemporary Writing 2007: Media v. 4, No. 1: Autumn and Winter

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Revolutions of the Heart: Literary, Cultural, & Spiritual

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Pisarze o Ameryce

The Inspector Barlach Mysteries: The Judge and His Hangman / Suspicion

The Electric Life: Essays on Modern Poetry

American Energies: Essays on Fiction

Ploughshares Winter 1987 Guest-Edited by Bill Knott

A Otra Cosa:

Hopeful Monsters

The Soul is Not a Smithy