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Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Readings combines the best of Sven Birkerts's previously published criticism with vital new essays. A dazzling writer whose clarity, rigor, and far-flung intellectual curiosity have been widely praised, Birkerts the literary critic is in top form in these pages. Whether discussing Elizabeth Bishop or Don DeLillo, Rilke or Kerouac, Keats or The Great Gatsby, he brings fresh insight, sharp thinking, and reflective sensitivity to each of his subjects. A brilliant cultural commentator, Birkerts also addresses broader, more associative topics, such as biography and the enigma of poetic inspiration, contemporary nostalgia, our modern sense of time, and the future of the creative spirit. As Jonathan Franzen wrote in The New Yorker, "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." This is writing about reading at its best. Book News Annotation:A champion of reading in the electronic age, Birkerts (Mount Holyoke College) combines selections from his four previous books with new essays to discuss authors ranging from Robert Musil to Don DeLillo and topics such as biography, the enigma of poetic inspiration, nostalgia, the modern sense of time, and the future of the creative spirit. The collection is not indexed.
Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Synopsis:One of the pivotal critics of our times champions the creative spirit in an age of intense distraction, tackling such subjects as manufactured nostalgia and commercialism.
About the AuthorSven Birkerts is also the author of The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age. He teaches at Mount Holyoke College, is a member of the core faculty of the Bennington Writing Seminars, and lives in Arlington, Massachusetts. Table of ContentsI The Millennial Warp American Nostalgias Sense and Semblance: The Implications of Virtuality The Idea of the Internet Walking after Midnight Only God Can Make a Tree Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man; or, Why I Can't in Good Conscience Write about Noam Chomsky II An Open Invitation to Extraterrestrials Biography and the Dissolving Self The Grasshopper on the Windowsill States of Reading Against the Current Reading and Depth of Field Docufiction "Poetry" and "Politics" Running Out of Gas Second Thoughts This Year's Canon III When Lightning Strikes On a Stanza by John Keats Rainer Maria Rilke Robert Lowell Seamus Heaney Atmospheres of Identity: Elizabeth Bishop The Leaning Umbrella: A Reflection on Flaubert A Gatsby for Today Jack Kerouac Destinies of Character Don DeLillo's Underworld What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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