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Sven Birkerts
One of America's most honored essayists, Sven Birkerts returns with a riveting collection. In The Miro Worm and the Mysteries of Writing, Birkerts reflects on questions every writer grapples with…
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Que la revolucion digital es una de las mas cruciales de la historia de la humanidad ya no hay quien lo discuta. A tal punto ha modificado nuestra vida cotidiana…
In this deeply appealing and engaging collection of essays, Sven Birkerts looks back through his own life, as well as at the generations before him and ahead at the lives…
Written by one of the best respected literary critic in the world, this work discusses authors ranging from Elizabeth Bishop to Don DeLillo and topics such as biography and the…
For this provocative launch of the Graywolf Forum series, Sven Birkerts asked a number of literary writers how they were reacting to the technological innovations of our day. These higly…
In 12 far-reaching and intimate essays, Birkerts reflects upon his first readings of classic texts, including The Catcher in the Rye and Lolita, and what later encounters reveal about time…
Trenchant, expansive essays on the cultural consequences of ongoing, all-permeating technological innovation
In 1994, Sven Birkerts published The Gutenberg Elegies, his celebrated rallying cry to resist the oncoming digital advances…
One of the most acclaimed authors on the meaning of reading and writing takes on Nabokov’s classic memoir.
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Co-authored by two esteemed writers,
Yahia Lababidi
Revolutions of the Heart is a genre-bending book where literature, social activism, and mysticism intersect. In this follow-up to Lababidi’s first essay collection, Trial by Ink: From Nietzsche to Bellydancing…
Friedrich Durrenmatt
Both the mysteries in this volume follow Inspector Barlach as he moves through worlds in which the distinction between crime and justice seems to have vanished.
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William Gaddis
Gaddis published four novels during his lifetime, immense and complex books that helped inaugurate a new movement in American letters. Now comes his final work of fiction, a subtle, concentrated…
Nicholas Mosley
Through a dialogue between two lovers, this book retells the history of Europe of the twenties and thirties. It weaves together disparate strands of landscape to take the reader on…
