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Sven Birkerts

Sven Birkerts
Sven Birkerts is co- editor of the journal AGNI (based at Boston University) and the director emeritus of the Bennington Writing Seminars. His most recent book is SPEAK, MEMORY—a personal reading of Nabokov's memoir, published in IG's "Bookmarked" series. The author of eleven books, he has received grants from the Guggenheim and Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest foundations and awards for his essays and criticism from PEN and the National Book Critics Circle.


Sven Birkerts on Discovering the Story You Need To Write

“It’s very much about baiting the hook, and then waiting.”
April 11, 2022  By Sven Birkerts
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Long Tables, Open Bottles, and Smoke: Hanging Out with Derek Walcott

Sven Birkerts on Literary Life in 1980s Boston, with a Trio of Great Poets
November 22, 2017  By Sven Birkerts
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When an Internet Skeptic Takes to Twitter

Sven Birkerts on Contradiction and Tweeting Against the Tide
July 18, 2016  By Sven Birkerts
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Can the “Literary” Survive Technology?

Sven Birkerts on On Our Changing Brains and What Comes Next
April 8, 2016  By Sven Birkerts
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