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Sven Birkerts

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Sven Birkerts is an American essayist and literary critic. He is best known for his book The Gutenberg Elegies (1994), which posits a decline in reading due to the overwhelming advances of the Internet and other technologies of the "electronic culture." In 2006 he published a revised edition with new introduction and afterword, reflecting on the endurance of reading.

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The Gutenberg Elegies
The Gutenberg Elegies
Sven Birkerts
Changing the Subject
Changing the Subject
Sven Birkerts
The Art of Time in Memoir
The Art of Time in Memoir
Sven Birkerts
The Inspector Barlach Mysteries
The Inspector Barlach Mysteries
Sven Birkerts, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Joel Agee
The Art of Time in Memoir
The Art of Time in Memoir
Sven Birkerts
The Gutenberg Elegies
The Gutenberg Elegies
Sven Birkerts
Writing Well
Writing Well
Sven Birkerts, Donald Hall
Readings
Readings
Sven Birkerts
An Artificial Wilderness
An Artificial Wilderness
Sven Birkerts
My Sky Blue Trades
My Sky Blue Trades
Sven Birkerts
Writing Well
Writing Well
Sven Birkerts, Donald Hall
The Art of Time in Memoir
The Art of Time in Memoir
Sven Birkerts
The Electric Life
The Electric Life
Sven Birkerts
An Artificial Wilderness
An Artificial Wilderness
Sven Birkerts
Literature
Literature
Sven Birkerts
The Other Walk
The Other Walk
Sven Birkerts
Vladimir Nabokov's Speak, Memory
Vladimir Nabokov's Speak, Memory
Sven Birkerts
Writing Well
Writing Well
Sven Birkerts, Donald Hall

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