About the Author

Sven Birkerts teaches at Mount Holyoke College. 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"